September 25 History

September 25 History

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 97 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
275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor (Marcus Claudius Tacitus).
762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge sees the defeat of Harald Hardrada by King Harold II of England.
1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1775 – American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
1775 – American Revolution:Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
1790 – Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
1911 – An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1926 – The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 – The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.
1964 – The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
1969 – The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
1981 – Belize joins the United Nations.
1983 – Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
2003 – The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
2018 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison.

Births
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1408)
1403 – Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)
1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)
1528 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)
1529 – Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1583)
1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)
1636 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1698)
1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)
1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)
1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
1761 – William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1827)
1764 – Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
1771 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (d. 1829)
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)
1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)
1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
1825 – William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (d. 1888)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879)
1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904)
1862 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (d. 1897)
1862 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1865 – Henri Lebasque, French artist (d. 1937)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1867 – Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (d. 1938)
1877 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (1924-1928), known as the Jefe Maximo (Maximum Boss) from 1928=1936. (d. 1945)[1]
1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (d. 1936)
1884 – Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1951)
1888 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978)
1889 – Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)
1893 – Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
1896 – Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter and educator (d. 1980)
1899 – Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)
1900 – Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937)
1901 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1901 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (d. 1968)
1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)
1906 – Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (d. 1962)
1906 – Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (d. 1996)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)
1908 – Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1910 – Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach (d. 1980)
1911 – Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1914 – John Manners,[2] naval officer and cricketer
1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
1916 – Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968)
1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1920 – Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (d. 2002)
1921 – Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1923 – Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (d. 2001)
1923 – Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011)
1924 – Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (d. 2017)
1924 – Red Webb, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)
1926 – Jack Hyles, American pastor and author (d. 2001)
1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
1927 – Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (d. 2013)
1929 – Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1929 – Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004)
1929 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author
1930 – Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti
1930 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999)
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1931 – Bryan John Birch, English mathematician and scholar
1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager
1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1933 – Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician
1936 – Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)
1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1936 – Moussa Traoré, Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali
1937 – Mary Allen Wilkes, American computer scientist and lawyer
1938 – Ron Hill, English runner and businessman
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
1938 – Enn Tarto, Estonian politician
1939 – Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2015)
1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1939 – David S. Mann, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati
1940 – Tim Severin, Indian-English explorer, historian, and author
1941 – Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, English academic and politician
1942 – Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian boxer (d. 1976)
1942 – Robert Miano, American actor and producer
1942 – Henri Pescarolo, French race car driver
1942 – John Taylor, English pianist and educator (d. 2015)
1942 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
1943 – Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
1943 – John Locke, American keyboard player (d. 2006)
1943 – Aram Saroyan, American poet and novelist
1943 – Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1944 – Doris Matsui, American politician
1944 – Grayson Shillingford, Dominican cricketer (d. 2009)
1945 – Kathleen Brown, American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer
1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1946 – Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer and coach
1946 – Felicity Kendal, English actress
1946 – Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1998)
1946 – Janusz Majer, Polish mountaineer
1946 – Gil Morgan, American golfer
1946 – Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer
1946 – Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1947 – Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (d. 1999)
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress
1947 – Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1948 – Mimi Kennedy, American actress and screenwriter
1948 – Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian businessman
1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player
1949 – Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2015)
1950 – Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist and trainer (d. 2013)
1951 – Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer
1951 – Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter
1951 – Graeme Knowles, English bishop
1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer
1951 – Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and coach
1952 – Colin Friels, Scottish-Australian actor
1952 – Jimmy Garvin, American wrestler and manager
1952 – bell hooks, American author and activist
1952 – Cherríe Moraga, American poet, playwright, and activist
1952 – Tommy Norden, American actor
1952 – Chris Pond, English politician
1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (d. 2004)
1953 – Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer
1953 – Ron Rash, American novelist, short story writer, poet
1954 – Sylvester Croom, American football player and coach
1954 – Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish footballer and manager
1955 – Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1955 – Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Amyr Klink, Brazilian sailor and explorer
1955 – Luanne Rice, American author and activist
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer and manager
1955 – Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1956 – W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation
1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries
1956 – Miroslav Volf, Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual
1957 – Michael Madsen, American actor and producer
1957 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (d. 2014)
1958 – Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor
1959 – Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1961 – Mehmet Aslantuğ, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress
1961 – Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
1961 – Tim Zoehrer, Australian cricketer
1962 – Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010)
1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
1962 – Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach
1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist and author
1964 – Gary Ayles, English race car driver
1964 – Barbara Dennerlein, German organist
1964 – Rebecca Gablé, German novelist
1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
1964 – Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman
1965 – Matt Battaglia, American football player, actor, and producer
1965 – Gordon Currie, Canadian actor
1965 – Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress and singer
1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Anne Roumanoff, French actress and screenwriter
1965 – Dave Rundle, South African cricketer
1965 – Rob Schmidt, American director and screenwriter
1965 – Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer and coach
1965 – Nicky Winmar, Australian footballer
1966 – Stanislav Bunin, Russian pianist and educator
1966 – Todd Philcox, American football player
1967 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Ashwin Sood, English-Canadian drummer and producer
1968 – John A. List, American economist and academic
1968 – Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper
1968 – John Worsfold, Australian footballer and coach
1969 – Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969 – Bill Simmons, American journalist and author
1969 – Tony Womack, American baseball player
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1970 – Curtis Buckley, American football player and psychiatrist
1971 – Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player and manager
1971 – John Lynch, American football player and sportscaster
1971 – Seb Sanders, English jockey
1972 – Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1973 – Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1973 – Jenny Chapman, English politician
1974 – Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Olivier Dacourt, French footballer
1974 – John Granville, American scholar and diplomat (d. 2008)
1974 – Paul Hurst, English footballer and manager
1974 – Daniel Kessler, English-American singer and guitarist
1974 – Frank Leder, German fashion designer
1974 – Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player and coach
1974 – Eric Moss, American football player
1974 – Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Javier Rosas, Mexican triathlete
1974 – Kemel Thompson, Jamaican hurdler
1975 – Daniela Ceccarelli, Italian skier
1975 – Declan Donnelly, English entertainer
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 – Dat Nguyen, American football player and coach
1976 – Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer
1976 – Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
1976 – Eric Roberson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican American actress and former Miss Teen USA.
1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 – Joel David Moore, American actor
1977 – Mike Krahulik, American illustrator
1977 – Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1978 – Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer
1978 – Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model and actress
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American singer-songwriter and producer
1978 – Joel Piñeiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 – Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (d. 2012)
1979 – Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1979 – Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
1980 – T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor
1981 – Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 – James Felton Keith, American engineer
1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 – Donald Glover, American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Terrance Pennington, American football player
1984 – Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress
1984 – Matías Silvestre, Argentinian footballer
1985 – Gökhan Güleç, Turkish footballer
1985 – Marvin Matip, German footballer
1986 – Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player
1986 – Jamie O'Hara, English footballer
1986 – Marten Strauch, German rugby player
1986 – Steve Forrest, American drummer
1986 – Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress
1987 – Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
1987 – Mustafa Yumlu, Turkish footballer
1989 – Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer
1989 – Aldon Smith, American football player
1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1990 – Daria Strokous, Russian model, actress, and photographer
1991 – Emmy Clarke, American actress
1991 – Alessandro Crescenzi, Italian footballer
1991 – Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Corey LaJoie, American racing driver[3]
1991 – Alexander Rossi, American racing driver[4]
1992 – Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver
1992 – Kerrod Holland, Australian rugby league player
1992 – Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer
1992 – Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
1992 – Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer
1993 – Toby Greene, Australian footballer
1995 – Todd Hazelwood, Australian racing driver[5]
1996 – Anett Vilipuu, Estonian footballer
2004 – Seiran Kobayashi, Japanese actress

Deaths
1066 – Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (b. 1015)
1066 – Maria Haraldsdotter, Norwegian princess
1066 – Tostig Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1087 – Simon I de Montfort, French nobleman (b. c. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shōgun (b. 1301)
1367 – Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (b. 1290)
1396 – Jean de Carrouges, French knight (b. 1330)
1396 – Jean de Vienne, French general and admiral (b. 1341)
1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1447)
1506 – Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1536 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch author and poet (b. 1511)
1550 – Georg von Blumenthal, German bishop (b. 1490)
1588 – Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (b. 1527)
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)
1615 – Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1572)
1617 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1548)
1621 – Mary Sidney, English writer,
1626 – Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and scholar (b. 1555)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1569)
1665 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (b. 1658)
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728)
1791 – William Bradford, American soldier and publisher (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (b. 1718)
1828 – Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783)
1849 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1867 – Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail (b. 1812)
1893 – Louise von François, German author (b. 1817)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1900 – John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (b. 1853)
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer, and rebel commander (b. 1885)
1918 – Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1926 – Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)
1928 – Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863)
1929 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1933 – Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
1939 – Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885)
1941 – Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867)
1943 – Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)
1946 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (b. 1879)
1958 – John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1878)
1960 – Emily Post, American author and educator (b. 1873)
1961 – Frank Fay, American actor and singer (b. 1897)
1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891)
1968 – Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician (b. 1886)
1972 – Max Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1883)
1980 – John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 – Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (b. 1917)
1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (b. 1909)
1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (b. 1905)
1988 – Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (b. 1937)
1988 – Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (b. 1909)
1990 – Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
1991 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (b. 1913)
1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (b. 1912)
1992 – Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (b. 1961)
1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1928)
1995 – Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (b. 1891)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1916)
1997 – Jean Françaix, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (b. 1930)
2003 – Aqila al-Hashimi, Iraqi translator and politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 – George Plimpton, American writer and literary editor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American philosopher and critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2005 – Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1956)
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (b. 1917)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (b. 1912)
2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (b. 1919)
2007 – André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (b. 1924)
2008 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (b. 1932)
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
2009 – Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1946)
2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
2012 – Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (b. 1927)
2012 – John Bond, English footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2012 – Eric Ives, English historian and academic (b. 1931)
2012 – Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (b. 1962)
2012 – Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927)
2013 – Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1940)
2013 – Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2013 – José Montoya, American poet and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (b. 1915)
2013 – Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (b. 1930)
2014 – Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1951)
2014 – Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (b. 1920)
2015 – Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
2015 – John Galvin, American general (b. 1929)
2015 – Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1944)
2015 – Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (b. 1939)
2016 – José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1992)
2016 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (b. 1929)
2016 – Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (b. 1960)