August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [edit]
- 30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
- 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 527 – Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
- 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 902 – Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army.
- 1192 – Richard the Lionheart landed on Jaffa and defeated the army of Saladin
- 1203 – Isaac II Angelos, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexios IV Angelos co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade.
- 1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
- 1620 – The Speedwell leaves Delfshaven to bring pilgrims to America by way of England.
- 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.
- 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
- 1800 – The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
- 1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.
- 1838 – Non-laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1840 – Laborer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated.
- 1842 – The Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
- 1907 – The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
- 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
- 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
- 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
- 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1968 – The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the "Green Line", dividing Cyprus into two zones.
- 1975 – CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
- 1980 – Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in the Republic of Ireland
- 1980 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state
- 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
- 1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, northwest England
- 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
- 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
Births [edit]
- 10 BC– Claudius, Roman emperor (d. 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman emperor (d. 193)
- 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
- 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597)
- 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Sabbatean movement (d. 1676)
- 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician (d. 1673)
- 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
- 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1838)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (d. 1843)
- 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German historian (d. 1851)
- 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier (d. 1836)
- 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882)
- 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
- 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926)
- 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
- 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician (d. 1937)
- 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884)
- 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
- 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1892 – Gin Kanie, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 108 (d. 2001)
- 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 (d. 2000)
- 1893 – Alexander of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894 – Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1899 – Raymond Mays, English racing driver and entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
- 1901 – Francisco Guilledo, Filipino boxer (d. 1925)
- 1907 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter (d. 1974)
- 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal
- 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
- 1918 – Richard Pearson, Welsh actor (d. 2011)
- 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Val Bettin, American voice actor
- 1924 – Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Frank Worrell, Indian cricketer (d. 1967)
- 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer
- 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician (d. 1979)
- 1929 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby racer (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American politician, 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (d. 1996)
- 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter
- 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
- 1933 – Teri Shields, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
- 1933 – Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian (d. 2007)
- 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate (d. 2012)
- 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
- 1935 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer
- 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist (d. 2000)
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
- 1937 – Al D'Amato, American politician
- 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
- 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
- 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1942 – André Gagnon, Canadian pianist and composer
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995)
- 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
- 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
- 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer
- 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006)
- 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (The Grass Roots) (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Richard O. Covey, American astronaut
- 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1947 – Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer
- 1947 – Dennis Zine, American politician
- 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios
- 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player
- 1948 – David Gemmell. English author
- 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler
- 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
- 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976)
- 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player
- 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1952 – Yajurvindra Singh, Indian cricketer
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
- 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist
- 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer
- 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer
- 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006)
- 1955 – Arun Lal, Indian cricketer
- 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio host
- 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000)
- 1958 – Tor Håkon Holte, Norwegian skier
- 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (Doll Congress)
- 1958 – Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
- 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
- 1959 – Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese musician and composer (Ground Zero and Filament)
- 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper, producer, and author (Public Enemy)
- 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist and songwriter (L7)
- 1962 – Jesse Borrego, American actor
- 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer
- 1963 – Coolio, American rapper, producer, and actor (WC and the Maad Circle)
- 1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican actor
- 1963 – John Carroll Lynch, American actor
- 1963 – Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand swimmer
- 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut
- 1963 – Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
- 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Counting Crows and The Himalayans)
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, English director
- 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author
- 1967 – Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player
- 1968 – Stacey Augmon, American basketball player
- 1968 – Dan Donegan, American guitarist (Disturbed and Vandal)
- 1968 – Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
- 1969 – Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player
- 1969 – Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
- 1969 – David Wain, American actor
- 1970 – David James, English footballer
- 1971 – Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, Mexican drug smuggler
- 1972 – Devon Hughes, American wrestler
- 1972 – Nicke Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (The Hellacopters The Solution, The Hydromatics, and Imperial State Electric)
- 1972 – Tanya Reid, Canadian actress
- 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator
- 1973 – Gregg Berhalter, American soccer player
- 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
- 1973 – Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian runner
- 1973 – Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
- 1973 – Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
- 1974 – Beckie Scott, Canadian skier
- 1975 – Ane Dahl Torp, Norwegian actress
- 1975 – Vhrsti, Czech illustrator
- 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress
- 1976 – Søren Jochumsen, Danish footballer
- 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976 – Hasan Şaş, Turkish footballer
- 1976 – Cristian Stoica, Romanian-Italian rugby player
- 1977 – Haspop, French-Moroccan dancer, choreographer, and actor
- 1977 – Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Damien Saez, French singer-songwriter and author
- 1977 – Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese wrestler and boxer
- 1978 – Andy Blignaut, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1978 – Dhani Harrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Thenewno2, Traveling Wilburys, and Fistful of Mercy)
- 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1978 – Jonathan Wilkes, English singer and actor
- 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
- 1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish dancer
- 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor
- 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh actress
- 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Krisztina Fazekas Zur, Hungarian-American canoe racer
- 1980 – Bryan Fisher, British actor
- 1981 – Brett Chukerman, American actor
- 1981 – Dean Cox, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Taylor Fry, American actress
- 1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
- 1981 – Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
- 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Miracle Laurie, American actress
- 1981 – Aoife Madden, Irish actress and producer
- 1981 – Ashley Parker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (O-Town)
- 1981 – Sally Pressman, American dancer and actress
- 1982 – Kimberly Holland, American model
- 1982 – Montserrat Lombard, English actress
- 1982 – Oluchi Onweagba, Nigerian model
- 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1983 – David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete
- 1984 – Steve Feak, American game designer
- 1984 – Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist
- 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress
- 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
- 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player
- 1985 – Hyun Jyu-ni, South Korean singer and actress
- 1985 – Gegard Mousasi, Armenian mixed martial artist
- 1986 – Elijah Kelley, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1986 – Jonas Plass, German sprinter
- 1986 – Jörn Schlönvoigt, German singer and actor
- 1986 – Lucas Simón, Argentine footballer
- 1986 – Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1986 – Andrew Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1987 – Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress
- 1987 – Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
- 1987 – Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
- 1988 – Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
- 1988 – Max Carver, American actor
- 1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
- 1989 – Tiffany, American-Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
- 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
- 1989 – Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
- 1990 – Alakina Mann, English actress
- 1990 – Jack O'Connell, English actor
- 1991 – Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer
- 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
- 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage and Shugo Chara Egg!)
- 1995 – Derrick Monasterio, Filipino actor and singer
- 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
- 1998 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
Deaths [edit]
- 30 BC– Mark Antony, Roman politician and general (b. 83 BC)
- 371 – Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop and saint (b. 283)
- 946 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
- 1137 – Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (b. 1180)
- 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (b. 1341)
- 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (b. 1406)
- 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1386)
- 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 – Peter Faber, French theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 – Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1675 – Weetamoo, Native American noblewoman (b. 1635)
- 1714 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787 – Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian bishop, philosopher, and saint (b. 1696)
- 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
- 1796 – Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet, English army officer (b. 1720)
- 1798 – François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, French admiral (b. 1753)
- 1807 – John Walker, English lexicographer (b. 1732)
- 1812 – Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
- 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1866 – John Ross, Native American chief (b. 1790)
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontier and scout (b. 1853)
- 1911 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
- 1911 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (b. 1843)
- 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (b. 1879)
- 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
- 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer, reformer, and educator (b. 1856)
- 1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer and inventor (b. 1856)
- 1929 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1938 – John Aasen, American actor (b. 1890)
- 1938 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (b. 1862)
- 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet pilot (b. 1921)
- 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian actor (b. 1883)
- 1959 – Jean Behra, French Formula One racer (b. 1921)
- 1966 – Charles Whitman, American murderer (b. 1941)
- 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (b. 1893)
- 1974 – Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot (b. 1929)
- 1980 – Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1980 – Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1983 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla and activist (b. 1954)
- 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
- 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1990 – Graham Young, English serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1996 – Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and diplomat, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
- 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician (b. 1929)
- 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali−English writer (b. 1897)
- 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
- 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist (b. 1913)
- 2004 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand (b. 1996)
- 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Wim Boost, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Jason Rhoades, American artist (b. 1965)
- 2006 – Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Iris Marion Young, American theorist and activist (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer and poet (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican politician and attempted murderer (b. 1919)
- 2010 – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Don Erickson, American baseball player (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
- 2012 – Riccardo Ruotolo, Italian bishop (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Abel Salinas, Peruvian politician (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Douglas Townsend, American composer (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Barry Trapnell, English cricketer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (b. 1926)
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