October 10 History

October 10  History

October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 82 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
680 – Muhammad's grandson Husayn ibn Ali is decapitated by Caliph Yazid I's troops.
732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army between near Tours, France.
1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.
1575 – Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
1580 – Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.
1631 – Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.
1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1814 – The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.
1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
1868 – The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
1871 – Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
1903 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
1911 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
1913 – U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.[1][2]
1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.
1935 – In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.
1938 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
1945 – The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.
1957 – U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
1957 – The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
1967 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
1970 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.
1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1980 – The 7.1 Mw  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
1980 – The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
1985 – US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
1986 – A 5.7 Mw  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
1997 – Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
1998 – A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
2015 – Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 102 and injure 400.
2018 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

Births
AD 19 – Tiberius Gemellus, Roman son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla (d. 38)
786 – Saga, emperor of Japan (d. 842)
867 – Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (d. 933)
1332 – King Charles II of Navarre (d. 1387)
1344 – Mary of Waltham, duchess of Brittany (d. 1361)
1355 – Zhu Biao, Chinese prince (d. 1392)
1421 – John Paston, English politician (d. 1466)
1486 – Charles III, Duke of Savoy (d. 1553)
1554 – Arnold III, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt-Tecklenburg-Limburg and Lord of Rheda (d. 1606)
1560 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (d. 1609)
1567 – Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (d. 1597)
1584 – Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1649)
1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French composer and director (d. 1676)
1629 – Richard Towneley, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1707)
1646 – Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French noblewoman (d. 1705)
1656 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (d. 1746)
1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1753)
1678 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician, Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland (d. 1743)
1684 – Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
1700 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1759)
1731 – Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)
1780 – John Abercrombie, Scottish physician and philosopher (d. 1844)
1794 – William Whiting Boardman, American judge and politician (d. 1871)
1810 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1897)
1813 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist (d. 1901)
1819 – Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian and author (d. 1883)
1825 – Paul Kruger, South African soldier and politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (d. 1904)
1828 – Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
1830 – Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
1834 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (d. 1872)
1837 – Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (d. 1863)
1858 – Maurice Prendergast, American painter and academic (d. 1924)
1861 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)
1864 – T. Frank Appleby, American businessman and politician (d. 1924)
1870 – Louise Mack, Australian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1935)
1872 – Dionysios Kasdaglis, Egyptian-Greek tennis player (d. 1931)
1877 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (d. 1963)
1884 – Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet and author (d. 1937)
1884 – Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (d. 1958)
1885 – Walter Anderson, Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic (d. 1962)
1885 – Jean Peyrière, French actor (d. 1965)
1889 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter and forger (d. 1947)
1895 – Alfred Neuland, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1966)
1895 – Fridolf Rhudin, Swedish actor (d. 1935)
1895 – Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1898 – Lilly Daché, French-American fashion designer (d. 1989)
1900 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
1902 – K. Shivaram Karanth, Indian journalist, author, and activist (d. 1997)
1903 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (d. 1983)
1903 – Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
1903 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and academic (d. 2009)
1905 – Aksella Luts, Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer(d. 2005)
1906 – Paul Creston, American composer and educator (d. 1985)
1906 – Fei Mu, Chinese director and screenwriter (d. 1951)
1906 – R. K. Narayan, Indian author (d. 2001)
1908 – Johnny Green, American conductor and composer (d. 1989)
1908 – Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan author and poet (d. 1983)
1909 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
1910 – Julius Shulman, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 2009)
1911 – Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author (d. 2017)
1912 – Ram Vilas Sharma, Indian poet and critic (d. 2000)
1913 – Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1914 – Tommy Fine, American baseball player and businessman (d. 2005)
1914 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
1915 – Harry Edison, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
1917 – Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1919 – Willard Estey, Canadian academic and jurist (d. 2002)
1919 – Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer, manager, and umpire (d. 1996)
1919 – Kim Ki-young, South Korean director, screenwriter, producer, and editor (d. 1997)
1919 – William Kruskal, American mathematician and statistician (d. 2005)
1919 – Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1920 – Gail Halvorsen, American air force pilot known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber."
1922 – Merv Pregulman, American football player, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2012)
1923 – Louis Gottlieb, American singer and bass player (d. 1996)
1923 – Nicholas Parsons, English actor and game show host
1923 – Murray Walker, English journalist and sportscaster
1924 – James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, screenwriter, and author (d. 1994)
1924 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French actress, ballerina, and choreographer (d. 2004)
1924 – Ed Wood, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1978)
1926 – Oscar Brown, American singer-songwriter, playwright, and actor (d. 2005)
1926 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
1927 – Dana Elcar, American actor and director (d. 2005)
1927 – Jon Locke, American actor (d. 2013)
1927 – Thomas Wilson, American-Scottish composer and educator (d. 2001)
1928 – Sheila Walsh, English author (d. 2009)
1929 – Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (d. 2012)
1929 – Herb Levinson, American actor (d. 2012)
1929 – Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
1930 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1957)
1930 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1932 – Harry Smith, English footballer
1933 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and businessman (d. 1969)
1935 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (d. 1988)
1935 – André Bureau, Canadian lawyer and businessman
1935 – Judith Chalmers, English television host and actress
1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Bruce Devlin, Australian golfer and sportscaster
1937 – Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (d. 2014)
1938 – Oleg Gordievsky, Russian intelligence officer and author
1938 – Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
1938 – Lily Tuck, American novelist and short story writer
1938 – Leroy Hood, American biologist and academic
1939 – Joe Pitts, American captain and politician
1940 – Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician (d. 2010)
1941 – Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1941 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (d. 1995)
1942 – Janis Hansen, American singer and author (d. 2017)
1942 – Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2013)
1943 – Frederick Barthelme, American novelist and short story writer
1945 – Christopher Hill, English bishop
1945 – Vanburn Holder, Barbadian cricketer
1945 – Headman Shabalala, South African bass singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (d. 1991)
1946 – Charles Dance, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1946 – Naoto Kan, Japanese lawyer and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan
1946 – Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946 – Anne Mather, English author and screenwriter
1946 – John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Raymond Tallis, English physician, philosopher, author, and academic
1946 – Chris Tarrant, English radio and television host
1946 – Ben Vereen, American actor, singer, and dancer
1946 – Willard White, Jamaican-English actor and singer
1947 – Gary Beach, American actor and singer
1947 – Giant Haystacks, English wrestler (d. 1998)
1947 – Ojārs Arvīds Feldbergs, Latvian sculptor
1948 – Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, English academic and businesswoman
1948 – Cyril Neville, American R&B percussionist and singer
1948 – Séverine, French singer and actress
1949 – Warren Burt, American-Australian composer
1949 – Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
1949 – Wang Wanxing, Chinese activist
1950 – Charlie George, English footballer
1950 – Nora Roberts, American author
1951 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian general and politician, 16th Minister for Fijian Affairs
1951 – Kevin McFoy Dunn, American guitarist, songwriter and producer
1952 – Dela Smith, English educator
1953 – Fiona Rae, Scottish painter
1953 – Midge Ure, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953 – Aleksander Veingold, Estonian chess player and coach
1953 – Gus Williams, American basketball player
1954 – Rekha, Indian actress
1954 – David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter and producer
1954 – Fernando Santos, Portuguese footballer and manager
1956 – Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress and producer
1956 – David Hempleman-Adams, English businessman and adventurer
1956 – Taur Matan Ruak, East Timorese politician, 3rd President of East Timor
1957 – Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator
1958 – Tanya Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Michael Cobley, English-Scottish author
1959 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
1959 – Bill Rammell, English academic and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
1959 – Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1959 – Bradley Whitford, American actor and producer
1959 – Arif Peçenek, Turkish football player and manager (d. 2013)
1960 – Ron Flockhart, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Eric Martin, American singer-songwriter
1960 – Russell Slade, English football manager
1960 – Paul Thiebaud, American art dealer (d. 2010)
1960 – Simon Townshend, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961 – Scott Hoffman, American drummer
1961 – Henrik Jørgensen, Danish runner
1961 – Martin Kemp, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1962 – Thomas Rusch, German photographer
1963 – Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
1963 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (d. 2003)
1963 – Daniel Pearl, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2002)
1963 – Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian skier
1964 – Sarah Lancashire, English actress and director
1964 – Crystal Waters, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1965 – Toshi, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1965 – Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
1965 – Rebecca Pidgeon, American-English singer-songwriter and actress
1966 – Tony Adams, English footballer and manager
1966 – Bai Ling, Chinese-American model and actress
1966 – Derrick McKey, American basketball player
1967 – Michael Giacchino, American composer
1967 – Jonathan Littell, American-French author and humanitarian
1967 – Mike Malinin, American drummer and producer
1967 – Gavin Newsom, American businessman and politician, 40th and current Governor of California
1967 – Jacek Zieliński, Polish footballer and coach
1968 – Bart Brentjens, Dutch cyclist
1968 – Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish singer-songwriter
1968 – Chris Ofili, British painter
1968 – Marinos Ouzounidis, Greek footballer and manager
1969 – Manu Bennett, New Zealand-Australian actor[3]
1969 – Francis Escudero, Filipino lawyer and politician
1969 – Brett Favre, American football player
1969 – Shawn Jamison, American basketball player and coach
1969 – Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
1969 – Dilsa Demirbag Sten, Swedish journalist and author
1970 – Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
1970 – Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German sled racer
1970 – Matthew Pinsent, English rower and sportscaster
1971 – Graham Alexander, English-Scottish footballer and manager
1971 – Ian Bennett, English footballer
1971 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
1972 – Jun Lana, Filipino director, producer, playwright, and screenwriter
1972 – Dean Roland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Alexei Zhitnik, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1973 – Mario Lopez, American actor, television personality, and producer
1973 – Scott Morriss, English bass player and songwriter
1973 – Zach Thornton, American soccer player and coach
1974 – Asi Cohen, Israeli actor and screenwriter
1974 – Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
1974 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver and actor
1974 – Lucy Powell, English politician
1974 – Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Ihsahn, Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Ramón Morales, Mexican footballer and manager
1975 – Plácido Polanco, Dominican-American baseball player
1976 – Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-American skateboarder
1976 – Pat Burrell, American baseball player
1976 – Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Scott Dobie, English footballer
1978 – Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American model and actress
1978 – Naomi Levari, Israeli film producer and director
1979 – Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1979 – Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
1979 – Mýa, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
1979 – Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
1979 – Hitomi Satō, Japanese actress
1980 – Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player
1980 – Casey FitzSimmons, American football player
1980 – Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Tim Maurer, American singer-songwriter
1981 – Una Foden, Irish singer-songwriter and dancer
1981 – Gavin Shuker, English lawyer and politician
1982 – Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
1982 – Amon Buchanan, Australian footballer
1982 – Dan Stevens, English actor[4]
1983 – Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
1983 – Nikos Spyropoulos, Greek footballer
1983 – Tolga Zengin, Turkish footballer
1984 – Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
1984 – Jean-Baptiste Grange, French skier
1984 – Lzzy Hale, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress and singer
1984 – Paul Posluszny, American football player
1984 – Troy Tulowitzki, American baseball player
1985 – Dominique Cornu, Belgian cyclist
1985 – Bronson Harrison, New Zealand rugby league player
1985 – Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter and pianist
1985 – Sandra Záhlavová, Czech tennis player
1986 – Ezequiel Garay, Argentinian footballer
1986 – Lucy Griffiths, English actress[5]
1986 – Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player
1986 – Andrew McCutchen, American baseball player
1986 – Ellen Andrea Wang, Norwegian bassist and composer
1987 – Rodjun Cruz, Filipino actor and dancer
1987 – Ryan Mathews, American football player
1987 – Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
1987 – Junior Madozein, Central African basketball player
1988 – Luis Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
1988 – Shaun Fensom, Australian rugby league player
1988 – Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer
1988 – Rose McIver, New Zealand actress
1988 – Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer
1988 – Toby Smith, Australian-New Zealand rugby player
1989 – Emer Kenny, English actress and screenwriter
1989 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress and producer
1990 – Geno Smith, American football player
1991 – Michael Carter-Williams, American basketball player
1991 – Gabriella Cilmi, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1991 – Lali Espósito, Argentinian actress and singer
1991 – Manuel Giandonato, Italian footballer
1991 – Mariana Pajón, Colombian cyclist
1991 – Xherdan Shaqiri, Swiss footballer
1993 – Jayden Stockley, English footballer
1994 – Tereza Smitková, Czech tennis player
1995 – Brenko Lee, Australian rugby league player
1996 – Roni Allén, Finnish ice hockey player

Deaths
AD 19 – Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
644 – Paulinus of York, English bishop and missionary
680 – Abbas ibn Ali, son of Imam Ali
680 – Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn
680 – Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn, son of Al-Husayn
680 – Habib ibn Madhahir
680 – Husayn ibn Ali, third Shia Imam and grandson of Muhammad (b. 626)
827 – Pope Valentine (b. 800)
937 – Wang Lingmou, chancellor of Wu
1213 – Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine
1308 – Patrick Dunbar, 8th Earl of Dunbar
1359 – Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
1503 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1438)
1659 – Abel Tasman, Dutch merchant and explorer (b. 1603)
1674 – Thomas Traherne, English poet (b. c. 1637)
1691 – Isaac de Benserade, French author and poet (b. 1613)
1708 – David Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1659)
1714 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist and academic (b. 1646)
1720 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
1723 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1665)
1725 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, French politician, Governor of New France (b. 1643)
1747 – John Potter, English archbishop and academic (b. 1674)
1759 – Granville Elliott, English general (b. 1713)
1765 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
1795 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (b. 1714)
1800 – Gabriel Prosser, American rebel leader (b. 1776)
1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (b. 1772)
1827 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (b. 1778)
1837 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and academic (b. 1772)
1857 – George Washington Parke Custis, American author and playwright (b. 1781)
1872 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
1875 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1817)
1876 – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist and meteorologist (b. 1814)
1893 – Lip Pike, American baseball player and manager (b. 1845)
1901 – Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
1911 – Jack Daniel, American businessman, founded Jack Daniel's (b. 1849)
1913 – Adolphus Busch, German-American brewer and businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1839)
1913 – Katsura Tarō, Japanese general and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1914 – Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
1918 – Henry Dobson, Australian politician, 17th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1841)
1922 – Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek physician and author (b. 1866)
1927 – August Kitzberg, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1855)
1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874)
1930 – Adolf Engler, German botanist and academic (b. 1844)
1935 – Gustave Loiseau, French painter (b. 1865)
1940 – Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1876)
1948 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (b. 1910)
1949 – Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (b. 1884)
1953 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand general, lawyer, and judge (b. 1884)
1957 – Karl Genzken, German physician (b. 1885)
1962 – Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian-Polish architect (b. 1891)
1963 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1893)
1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915)
1964 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (b. 1892)
1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and educator (b. 1888)
1966 – Charlotte Cooper, English-Scottish tennis player (b. 1870)
1970 – Édouard Daladier, French captain and politician, 105th Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
1971 – John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and scholar (b. 1901)
1973 – Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (b. 1881)
1974 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1976 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress (b. 1939)
1976 – Mirsada Mirjana Bajraktarević, Bosnian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
1977 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese-English actor (b. 1930)
1978 – Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
1978 – Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (b. 1910)
1979 – Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)
1979 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1886)
1982 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
1983 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
1985 – Yul Brynner, Russian actor (b. 1920)
1985 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1986 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1899)
1987 – Behice Boran, Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist (b. 1910)
1990 – Tom Murton, American penologist and activist (b. 1928)
1990 – Nikolaos Pavlopoulos, Greek sculptor and academic (b. 1909)
1991 – Nickolaus Hirschl, Austrian wrestler, discus thrower, and shot putter (b. 1906)
1997 – Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model (b. 1918)
1998 – Clark Clifford, American captain, lawyer, and politician 9th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
1998 – Marvin Gay, Sr., American minister (b. 1914)
1998 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler and manager (b. 1957)
2000 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
2001 – Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer (b. 1911)
2001 – Vasily Mishin, Russian engineer (b. 1917)
2003 – Eila Hiltunen, Finnish sculptor (b. 1922)
2003 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
2004 – Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2004 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (b. 1952)
2004 – Arthur H. Robinson, American geographer and cartographer (b. 1915)
2004 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (b. 1932)
2005 – Wayne C. Booth, American educator and critic (b. 1921)
2005 – Milton Obote, Ugandan politician, 2nd President of Uganda (b. 1925)
2006 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1932)
2006 – Ian Scott, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2008 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
2009 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (b. 1976)
2010 – Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher (b. 1940)
2010 – Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2011 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2012 – Sam Gibbons, American captain and politician (b. 1920)
2012 – Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (b. 1935)
2012 – Piotr Lenartowicz, Polish philosopher and educator (b. 1934)
2012 – Basil L. Plumley, American sergeant (b. 1920)
2012 – Mark Poster, American philosopher and educator (b. 1941)
2012 – Kyaw Zaw, Burmese commander and politician (b. 1919)
2013 – Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1925)
2013 – Jay Conrad Levinson, American author and educator (b. 1933)
2013 – Sohei Miyashita, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (b. 1927)
2013 – Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2014 – Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1958)
2014 – Damiana Eugenio, Filipino author and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
2014 – Lari Ketner, American football and basketball player (b. 1977)
2014 – Pavel Landovský, Czech actor, director, and playwright (b. 1936)
2014 – Ed Nimmervoll, Austrian-Australian journalist, historian, and author (b. 1947)
2015 – Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, Nigerian politician, Governor of Bayelsa State (b. 1952)
2015 – Hilla Becher, German photographer and educator (b. 1934)
2015 – Manorama Indian (Tamil) actress (b. 1937)[6]
2015 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1931)
2015 – Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2015 – Sybil Stockdale, American activist, co-founded the National League of Families (b. 1924)
2016 – Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (b. 1926)