October 27 History

October 27  History

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 65 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
312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
939 – Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1682 – Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1775 – King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.[1]
1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1806 – The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
1907 – Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
1914 – First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1916 – Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1944 – World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
1962 – By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
1962 – A aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1988 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1997 – The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1999 – Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.
2014 – Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
2017 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
2018 – A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.

Births
892 – Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (d. 908)
921 – Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (d. 959)
1156 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
1335 – Taejo of Joseon (d. 1408)
1401 – Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
1561 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
1572 – Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (d. 1578)
1615 – Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (d. 1691)
1661 – Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (d. 1728)
1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
1744 – Mary Moser, English painter and academic (d. 1819)
1760 – August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1765 – Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1806 – Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (d. 1890)
1811 – Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1811 – Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
1814 – Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (d. 1891)
1838 – John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1915)
1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928)
1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1854 – William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1858 – Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935)
1858 – Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (d. 1958)
1868 – William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
1877 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949)
1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943)
1884 – Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
1890 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (d. 1974)
1894 – Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
1894 – Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978)
1894 – Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (d. 1946)
1904 – Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
1906 – Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (d. 1992)
1906 – Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975)
1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010)
1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1910 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000)
1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (d. 2016)
1913 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
1914 – Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (d. 1979)
1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 1953)
1915 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (d. 1994)
1917 – Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1918 – Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)
1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
1920 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2017)
1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922 – Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (d. 2014)
1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (d. 2016)
1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1923 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
1923 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
1924 – Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1925 – Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1925 – Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1925 – Paul Fox, English broadcaster
1925 – Monica Sims, English radio host and producer
1926 – Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (d. 2010)
1926 – H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
1926 – Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (d. 2010)
1927 – Dominick Argento, American composer and educator
1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
1929 – Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016)
1929 – Bill George, American football player (d. 1982)
1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1930 – Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
1930 – Barry Supple, English historian and academic
1931 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author
1931 – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
1932 – Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
1933 – Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (d. 1997)
1933 – Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (d. 2002)
1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
1935 – Frank Adonis, American actor and screenwriter
1935 – Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist
1935 – Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator
1936 – Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
1938 – Lara Parker, American actress and author
1939 – John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
1939 – Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (d. 2007)
1939 – Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter
1940 – John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002)
1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
1941 – Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
1941 – Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1941 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
1942 – Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer
1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach
1944 – J. A. Jance, American author and poet
1945 – Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
1945 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35th President of Brazil
1945 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
1946 – Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
1946 – Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2014)
1946 – Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer
1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band) and record producer
1950 – Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American author
1950 – Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
1950 – A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
1951 – K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
1952 – Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
1952 – Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1953 – Peter Firth, English actor
1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Jan Duursema, American illustrator
1954 – Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (d. 2012)
1954 – Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
1955 – Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California
1956 – Patty Sheehan, American golfer
1956 – Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
1957 – Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer
1958 – Gordon Cowans, English footballer
1958 – David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
1958 – Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro
1958 – Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1963 – David Hall, Australian horse trainer
1963 – Marla Maples, American model and actress
1963 – Tom McKean, Scottish runner
1964 – Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1964 – Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
1965 – Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor
1966 – Steve Almond, American author and educator
1966 – Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1966 – Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
1967 – Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1968 – Dileep, Indian actor and producer
1968 – Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
1969 – Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer
1969 – Michael Tarnat, German footballer
1970 – Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (d. 1997)
1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
1970 – Jonathan Stroud, English author
1970 – Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
1971 – Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician
1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball player
1973 – Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
1975 – Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
1976 – Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler
1976 – Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
1976 – Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
1977 – Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout
1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
1979 – Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
1980 – Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author[2]
1981 – Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
1981 – Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model
1981 – Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1983 – Takuro Okuyama, Japanese footballer
1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 – Sebastian Gacki, Canadian actor
1984 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
1984 – Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
1984 – Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
1985 – Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
1985 – Sandra Volk, Slovenian tennis player
1986 – Jon Niese, American baseball player
1986 – Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
1986 – David Warner, Australian cricketer
1987 – Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
1987 – Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete.
1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987 – Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
1988 – Brady Ellison, American archer
1988 – Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
1988 – Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
1988 – Evan Turner, American basketball player
1989 – Mark Barron, American football player
1990 – Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
1990 – Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
1991 – Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1992 – Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
1992 – Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1992 – Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
1993 – Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
1997 – Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
1999 – Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

Deaths
939 – Æthelstan, English king (b. 894)
1269 – Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
1272 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
1277 – Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
1303 – Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1326 – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262)
1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
1329 – Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
1331 – Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1430 – Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
1439 – Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
1441 – Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (b. 1443)
1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1513 – George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1573 – Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
1605 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
1613 – Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
1617 – Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1563)
1652 – Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1611)
1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
1789 – John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1812 – Isaac Brock, British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1769)
1816 – Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1761)
1880 – Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
1917 – Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1926 – Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
1927 – Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
1929 – Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 – Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
1942 – Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
1949 – Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1957 – James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
1962 – Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
1977 – James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1982 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
1988 – Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
1990 – Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1991 – George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
1992 – Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (b. 1969)
1996 – Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
2000 – Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
2001 – Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
2002 – Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
2002 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
2003 – Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
2003 – Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2004 – Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2004 – Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2004 – Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
2005 – Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
2006 – Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
2006 – Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
2006 – Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
2007 – Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
2008 – Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2008 – Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
2008 – Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
2008 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
2009 – John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
2009 – August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
2009 – David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
2010 – Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
2011 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
2011 – Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (b. 1926)
2012 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2012 – Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
2012 – Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (b. 1926)
2012 – Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (b. 1923)
2012 – Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
2013 – Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
2013 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
2013 – Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
2013 – Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940)
2013 – Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954)
2014 – Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014 – Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
2014 – Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922)
2015 – Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959)
2015 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)
2015 – Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923)
2015 – Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933)
2016 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915)
2018 – Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, chairman of Leicester City F.C[3][4] (b. 1958)