September 6 History

September 6 History

September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 116 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
394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1642 – England's Parliament bans public stage-plays.
1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1861 – American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1885 – Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1939 – World War II: Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany.
1940 – King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
1943 – The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
1943 – Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1944 – World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1946 – United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1955 – Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
1962 – The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1965 – India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1976 – Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1986 – In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991 – The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1, 1991.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​1⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.[1]
2007 – Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
2009 – The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
2012 – Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
2013 - It was announced that Leeuwarden would become cultural capital of Europe of 2018 together with Valletta.

Births
1475 – Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (d. 1519)
1475 – Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (d. 1554)
1517 – Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (d. 1585)
1535 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author (d. 1612)
1610 – Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (d. 1658)
1620 – Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (d. 1704)
1631 – Charles Porter, English-born judge (d. 1696)
1633 – Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (d. 1676)
1656 – Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (d. 1723)
1666 – Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (d. 1696)
1711 – Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (d. 1787)
1729 – Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1786)
1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796)
1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (d. 1834)
1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844)
1781 – Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (d. 1861)
1795 – Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (d. 1852)
1800 – Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (d. 1878)
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (d. 1857)
1814 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (d. 1873)
1815 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (d. 1870)
1817 – Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (d. 1893)
1819 – William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 1898)
1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906)
1852 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (d. 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1928)
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (d. 1933)
1859 – Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (d. 1945)
1860 – Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1861 – William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (d. 1917)
1863 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (d. 1935)
1868 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (d. 1947)
1869 – Walford Davies, English organist and composer (d. 1941)
1869 – Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (d. 1945)
1876 – John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1879 – Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)
1879 – Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1956)
1885 – Otto Kruger, American actor (d. 1974)[2]
1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1969)
1889 – Louis Silvers, American composer (d. 1954)
1890 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (d. 1960)
1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1893 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (d. 1958)
1899 – Billy Rose, American composer and manager (d. 1966)
1900 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1979)
1900 – Julien Green, French-American author (d. 1998)
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1908 – Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (d. 1995)
1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (d. 1982)
1909 – Michael Gordon, American actor and director (d. 1993)
1910 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach (d. 1976)
1911 – Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
1911 – Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (d. 1980)
1912 – Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (d. 1996)
1913 – Julie Gibson, American actress and singer
1913 – Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (d. 2004)
1915 – Ed Oliver, American golfer (d. 1961)
1915 – Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (d. 1988)
1917 – John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1917 – George Mann, English cricketer (d. 2001)
1917 – Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (d. 2008)
1919 – Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
1920 – Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (d. 2003)
1921 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004)
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (d. 2012)
1923 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
1924 – John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (d. 2018)
1925 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter, and director (d. 2019)
1925 – Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1926 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
1926 – Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
1926 – Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1926 – Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (d. 2001)
1928 – Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (d. 2017)
1928 – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
1928 – Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (d. 2012)
1929 – Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (d. 2005)
1929 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991)
1930 – Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (d. 2013)
1930 – Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic
1931 – Bud Shrake, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1932 – Colin McColl, English intelligence officer
1932 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator
1935 – Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (d. 2014)
1935 – Jock Wallace, Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (d. 1996)
1937 – Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator
1937 – Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer (d. 2015)
1937 – Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer
1938 – Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor
1939 – Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer
1939 – David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – John M. Hayes, American scientist
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (d. 2007)
1940 – Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2015)
1941 – Roger Law, English illustrator
1941 – Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director
1942 – Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player
1942 – Richard Hutton, English cricketer
1942 – Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1943 – Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1944 – Donna Haraway, American author, academic, and activist
1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1946 – Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator
1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator
1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
1947 – Bruce Rioch, English footballer and manager
1947 – Jacob Rubinovitz, Polish-Israeli engineer and academic
1947 – Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (d. 2006)
1949 – Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician
1951 – Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (d. 2005)
1952 – Simon Burns, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
1952 – Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
1952 – Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist
1954 – Demetris Kizas, Cypriot footballer
1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, American bassist and composer
1954 – John Sauven, English economist and environmentalist
1955 – Raymond Benson, American author and playwright
1956 – Bill Ritter, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado
1956 – Steven Yearley, English sociologist and academic
1957 – Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist
1957 – Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor-General of Canada
1957 – José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter
1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor
1958 – Michael Winslow, American actor
1958 – The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler
1959 – Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show host
1961 – Wendi Richter, American wrestler
1961 – Scott Travis, American rock drummer (Judas Priest, Racer X)
1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and songwriter (A-ha)
1962 – Chris Christie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey
1962 – Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia
1962 – Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1962 – Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer
1963 – Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1963 – Alice Sebold, American author
1963 – Bryan Simonaire, American engineer and politician
1963 – Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician
1964 – Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director
1965 – Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Darren Clark, Australian sprinter
1965 – Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (d. 2009)
1965 – Van Tiffin, American football player
1967 – William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1967 – Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator
1967 – Milan Lukić, Convicted of war crimes by the ICTY
1967 – Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager
1968 – Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
1968 – Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author
1968 – Paul Rea, American journalist
1969 – Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator
1969 – Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator
1969 – Michellie Jones, Australian-American triathlete
1969 – CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner
1970 – Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1970 – Emily Maitlis, Canadian-English journalist
1970 – Rhett Miller, American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
1971 – Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
1972 – Idris Elba, English actor
1972 – Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer
1972 – Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1973 – Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster
1973 – Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach
1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster
1974 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (The Cardigans)
1975 – Derrek Lee, American baseball player and coach
1975 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka and politician
1976 – Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
1976 – Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach
1978 – Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1978 – Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978 – Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1978 – Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1979 – Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
1979 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
1979 – Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979 – Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979 – Low Ki, American wrestler
1980 – Jillian Hall, American wrestler and singer
1980 – Kerry Katona, English singer and actress
1980 – Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer
1980 – Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1981 – Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1981 – Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer
1981 – Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1983 – Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman
1984 – Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier
1984 – William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer
1985 – Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
1986 – Matt Keating, Australian rugby league player
1987 – Ramiele Malubay, Saudi Arabian-American singer
1987 – Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player
1988 – Ray Fujita, French-Japanese actor and singer
1988 – Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor
1988 – Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
1989 – Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
1989 – Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
1990 – Matt McAndrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1990 – John Wall, American basketball player
1992 – Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player
1993 – Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer
1995 – Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
1996 – Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer
1997 – Jai Field, Australian rugby league player
1997 – Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
1998 – Michele Perniola, Italian singer
1999 – Patrick Brasca, Canadian-Taiwanese singer-songwriter


Deaths
394 – Eugenius, Roman usurper
926 – Taizu of Liao, Khitan ruler (b. 872)
952 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (b. 923)
957 – Liudolf, duke of Swabia (b. 930)
972 – John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 930)
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (b. 1210)
1431 – Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and diplomat
1511 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (b. 1481)
1553 – Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c.1477)
1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (b. 1494)
1625 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1579)
1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)
1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574)
1683 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, French Controller-General of Finances (b. 1619)
1708 – Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (b. 1623)
1748 – Edmund Gibson, English bishop and scholar (b. 1669)
1783 – Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (b. 1710)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (b. 1723)
1868 – Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1797)
1885 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (b. 1819)
1891 – Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (b. 1815)
1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (b. 1827)
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
1919 – Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (b. 1846)
1927 – William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (b. 1855)
1938 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (b. 1907)
1939 – Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (b. 1867)
1944 – James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1945 – John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (b. 1884)
1949 – Walter Widdop, English tenor and actor (b. 1892)
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1951 – James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (b. 1867)
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1898)
1956 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904)
1956 – Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (b. 1916)
1959 – Edmund Gwenn, English actor (b. 1877)
1959 – Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (b. 1927)
1962 – Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (b. 1898)
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (b. 1879)
1966 – Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1901)
1969 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
1972 – Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre
Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1945)
David Mark Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944)
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (b. 1931)
Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (b. 1932)
Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (b. 1919)
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954)
Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (b. 1945)
Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (b. 1921)
1974 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (b. 1896)
1974   – Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)[2]
1978 – Max Decugis, French tennis player (b. 1882)
1978 – Tom Wilson, American record producer (b. 1931)
1979 – Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (b. 1910)
1982 – Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (b. 1915)
1984 – Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
1985 – Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)
1986 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
1988 – Leroy Brown, American wrestler (b. 1950)
1988 – Bill Northam, Australian sailor and businessman (b. 1905)
1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
1990 – Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1916)
1991 – Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
1992 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1912)
1994 – James Clavell, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (b. 1944)
1994 – Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1908)
1997 – P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (b. 1918)
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
1998 – Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (b. 1952)
1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)
1999 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938)
1999 – René Lecavalier, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1929)
2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian Military (b. 1918)
2005 – Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
2007 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (b. 1918)
2007 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
2008 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
2009 – Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (b. 1929)
2010 – Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (b. 1926)
2010 – Clive Donner, English director and editor (b. 1926)
2011 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (b. 1947)
2012 – Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (b. 1921)
2012 – Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (b. 1931)
2012 – Jerome Kilty, American actor and playwright (b. 1922)
2012 – Art Modell, American businessman (b. 1925)
2012 – Oscar Rossi, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2012 – Terry Nutkins, English naturalist, television presenter and author (b. 1946)
2013 – Ann C. Crispin, American author (b. 1950)
2013 – Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (b. 1926)
2013 – Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
2014 – Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (b. 1941)
2014 – Cirilo Flores, American bishop (b. 1948)
2014 – Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1933)
2014 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (b. 1919)
2015 – Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (b. 1961)
2015 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
2015 – Barney Schultz, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 – Calvin J. Spann, American general and pilot (b. 1924)
2017 – Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (b. 1944)
2017 – Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (b. 1934)[3]
2018 – Will Jordan, American comedian and actor (b. 1927)
2018 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer[4] (b. 1936)
2018 – Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (b. 1926)[5]
2018 – Liz Fraser, English actress, (b. 1930)