November 15 History

November 15 History

November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 46 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
565 – Justin II succeeds his uncle, Justinian I, as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705 – Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 – Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1915 – Winston Churchill resigns from the Government, and soon commands the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1933 – Thailand has its first election.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps"
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1955 – The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declared independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.[1]

Births
459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501)
1316 – John I, king of France and Navarre (d. 1316)
1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1455)
1498 – Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (d. 1536)
1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701)
1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746)
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743)
1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (d. 1775)
1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801)
1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1809)
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (d. 1830)
1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (d. 1827)
1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1860)
1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869)
1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)
1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1892)
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
1865 – John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (d. 1932)
1867 – Emil Krebs, German polyglot (d. 1930)
1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947)
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (d. 1941)
1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1960)
1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)
1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (d. 1951)
1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1972)
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (d. 1986)
1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (d. 1958)
1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (d. 1969)
1891 – W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (d. 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (d. 1967)
1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 1960)
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (d. 1988)
1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (d. 1990)
1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (d. 1990)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (d. 1944)
1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)
1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
1912 – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (d. 1945)
1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2003)
1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)
1916 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)
1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1919 – Joseph Wapner, American lieutenant and judge (d. 2017)
1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic
1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (d. 1995)
1923 – Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014)
1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2013)
1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2014)
1926 – Thomas Williams, American author and academic (d. 1990)
1927 – Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer-songwriter and politician
1928 – Seldon Powell, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1997)
1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer
1929 – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968)
1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)
1930 – Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (d. 2015)
1931 – John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013)
1931 – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya
1931 – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo
1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (d. 2001)
1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)
1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author
1934 – Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer
1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (d. 2016)
1936 – H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1936 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998)
1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015)
1939 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter
1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
1940 – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
1940 – Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1941 – Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer (ABBA)
1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
1947 – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician
1950 – Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
1952 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
1952 – Randy Savage, American wrestler (d. 2011)
1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
1953 – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
1954 – Emma Dent Coad, British politician
1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
1954 – Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (d. 2003)
1955 – Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
1957 – Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
1958 – Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
1958 – Lesley Laird, British politician
1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author
1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster
1961 – Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player
1962 – Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
1962 – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
1963 – Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
1963 – Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1963 – Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
1964 – Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True, American actress
1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
1967 – E-40, American rapper and actor (The Click)
1967 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (d. 2013)
1967 – François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
1967 – Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (d. 2004)
1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
1968 – Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 – Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
1970 – Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach
1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
1970 – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor
1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer
1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
1975 – Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
1976 – Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
1977 – Sean Murray, American actor
1977 – Peter Phillips, English businessman
1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player
1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player
1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
1980 – Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
1982 – Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
1982 – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
1982 – Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
1982 – Lofa Tatupu, American football player
1982 – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
1983 – Sasha Pavlović, Serbian basketball player
1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer
1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model
1985 – Charron Fisher, American basketball player
1985 – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer
1986 – Coye Francies, American football player
1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
1986 – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
1987 – Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
1989 – Jonalyn Viray, Filipino singer
1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer
1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
1992 – Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
1992 – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
1992 – Trevor Story, American baseball player
1992 – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
1993 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
1993 – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
1994 – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player

Deaths
165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint
655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia
655 – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
1037 – Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983)
1136 – Leopold III, margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 – Margaret I, countess of Flanders
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193)
1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
1347 – James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (b. 1321)
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
1379 – Otto V, duke of Bavaria
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English seaman and explorer
1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)
1853 – Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
1908 – Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1902)
1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)
1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)
1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)
1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (b. 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
1998 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922)
2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914)
2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)
2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)
2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929)
2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
2013 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930)
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (b. 1918)
2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b. 1934)
2014 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (b. 1920)
2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b. 1930)
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)
2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b. 1996)