February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 331 days remaining until the end of the year (332 in leap years ).
This day marks the approximate midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and of summer in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the December solstice).[ 1]
1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states .1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath ).1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire .1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope , becoming the first known European to travel so far south.1509 – The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire , the Republic of Venice , the Sultan of Gujarat , the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt , the Zamorin of Calicut , and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu , India .1534 – Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London , England .1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands ) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts .1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas .1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon -Polish -Russian force by deploying a double envelopment .1781 – American Revolutionary War : British forces seize the Dutch -owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius .1783 – American Revolutionary War : Spain recognizes United States independence.1787 – Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts .1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo , now the capital of Uruguay .1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress .1813 – José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo , part of the Argentine War of Independence .1825 – Vendsyssel-Thy , once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus .1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol .1834 – Wake Forest University is established.1852 – Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros .1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.1897 – The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky .1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax .1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa , Canada burn down.1917 – World War I : The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco , California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake , New Zealand 's worst natural disaster, kills 258.1943 – The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman , is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.1944 – World War II : During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign , U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap , 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.1945 – World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan .
1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon .1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community .1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly , Ritchie Valens , and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson , in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa .1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change ", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa , signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.1961 – The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass , and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC 's command post.1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje , Portuguese Angola , turns into a revolt , opening the Angolan War of Independence , the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars .
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon .1967 – Ronald Ryan , the last person to be executed in Australia , is hanged in Pentridge Prison , Melbourne .1969 – In Cairo , Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress .1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard , which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history .1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer , from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.1984 – Space Shuttle program : STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger .
1989 – After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party , but stays on as president for six more months.1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner , dictator of Paraguay since 1954 .
1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida .1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas , becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984 .1998 – Cavalese cable car disaster : a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento , Italy .
2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
1338 – Joanna of Bourbon (d. 1378)1654 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco , Italian composer (d. 1714)1677 – Jan Santini Aichel , Czech architect, designed the Karlova Koruna Chateau (d. 1723)1689 – Blas de Lezo , Spanish admiral (d. 1741)1690 – Richard Rawlinson , English minister (d. 1755)1721 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz , Prussian general (d. 1773)1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger , Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1809)1747 – Samuel Osgood , American soldier, 1st United States Postmaster General (d. 1813)1757 – Joseph Forlenze , Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1833)1777 – John Cheyne , Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)1795 – Antonio José de Sucre , Venezuelan politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (d. 1830)1807 – Joseph E. Johnston , American general (d. 1891)1808 – Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 1877)1809 – Felix Mendelssohn , German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1847)1811 – Horace Greeley , American journalist and politician (d. 1872)1817 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse , French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1881)1817 – Émile Prudent , French pianist and composer (d. 1863)
1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell , American physician (d. 1910)1824 – Ranald MacDonald , American educator (d. 1894)1826 – Walter Bagehot , English journalist and businessman (d. 1877)1830 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)1842 – Sidney Lanier , American composer and poet (d. 1881)1843 – William Cornelius Van Horne , American-Canadian businessman (d. 1915)1857 – Giuseppe Moretti , Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue (d. 1935)1859 – Hugo Junkers , German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (d. 1935)1862 – James Clark McReynolds , American lawyer and judge (d. 1946)1871 – Jean-Baptiste Mimiague , French fencer (d. 1929)1872 – Lou Criger , American baseball player (d. 1934)1874 – Gertrude Stein , American poet and art collector (d. 1946)1876 – William Tedmarsh , English-American actor (d. 1937)1887 – Georg Trakl , Austrian poet (d. 1914)1889 – Artur Adson , Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1977)1889 – Carl Theodor Dreyer , Danish director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1892 – Juan Negrín , Spanish physician and politician, 67th Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1956)1893 – Gaston Julia , Algerian-French mathematician (d. 1978)1894 – Norman Rockwell , American painter and illustrator (d. 1978)1898 – Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre (d. 1976)1899 – Café Filho , Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (d. 1970)1899 – Lao She , Chinese author and playwright (d. 1966)
1899 – Doris Speed , English actress (d. 1994)
1900 – Mabel Mercer , English-American singer (d. 1984)1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish pilot and politician (d. 1973)1903 – Joe Stripp , American baseball player (d. 1989)
1904 – Luigi Dallapiccola , Italian composer (d. 1975)1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd , American gangster (d. 1934)
1905 – Paul Ariste , Estonian linguist and academic (d. 1990)1905 – Arne Beurling , Swedish-American mathematician (d. 1986)
1907 – James Michener , American author (d. 1997)1909 – André Cayatte , French lawyer and director (d. 1989)1909 – Kurt Petter , German physician (d. 1969)
1909 – Simone Weil , French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943)
1911 – Jehan Alain , French organist and composer (d. 1940)1911 – Robert Earl Jones , American actor (d. 2006)
1912 – Jacques Soustelle , French anthropologist (d. 1990)1912 – Mary Carlisle , American actress and singer
1915 – Johannes Kotkas , Estonian wrestler (d. 1998)1918 – Joey Bishop , American actor (d. 2007)1918 – Shlomo Goren , Polish-Israeli rabbi (d. 1994)
1918 – Helen Stephens , American runner (d. 1994)
1920 – Russell Arms , American actor and singer (d. 2012)1920 – Tony Gaze , Australian race car driver and pilot
1920 – Henry Heimlich , American physician
1923 – Alys Robi , Canadian singer (d. 2011)1924 – E. P. Thompson , English historian and author (d. 1993)1924 – Martial Asselin , Canadian politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
1925 – Keith Dunstan , Australian journalist and author (d. 2013)1925 – John Fiedler , American actor (d. 2005)
1925 – Leon Schlumpf , Swiss politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Shelley Berman , American actor1926 – Hans-Jochen Vogel , German politician
1927 – Kenneth Anger , American actor, director, and screenwriter1927 – Val Doonican , Irish singer
1927 – Joan Lowery Nixon , American journalist and author (d. 2003)
1927 – Blas Ople , Filipino journalist and politician (d. 2003)
1928 – Ingemar Haraldsson , Swedish footballer (d. 2004)1928 – Frankie Vaughan , English singer and actor (d. 1999)
1929 – Ken Shipp , American football player and coach (d. 2012)1930 – Gillian Ayres , English painter1932 – Peggy Ann Garner , American actress (d. 1984)1932 – Stuart Hall , Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (d. 2014)
1933 – Polde Bibič , Slovenian actor (d. 2012)1933 – Paul Sarbanes , American lawyer and politician
1933 – Than Shwe , Burmese general and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma
1934 – Juan Carlos Calabró , Argentinian actor (d. 2013)1935 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)1936 – Jim Marshall , American photographer (d. 2010)1936 – Bob Simpson , Australian cricketer
1937 – Billy Meier , Swiss author and photographer1938 – Victor Buono , American actor (d. 1982)1938 – Emile Griffith , Virgin Islander boxer (d. 2013)
1938 – Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain , Irish businesswoman
1939 – Michael Cimino , American director, producer, and screenwriter1940 – Fran Tarkenton , American football player1941 – Neil Bogart , American record producer, founded Casablanca Records (d. 1982)1941 – Dory Funk, Jr. , American wrestler
1941 – Bridget Hanley , American actress
1941 – Howard Phillips , American politician (d. 2013)
1941 – Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond , South African-English journalist and politician
1943 – Blythe Danner , American actress1943 – Dennis Edwards , American singer (The Temptations and The Contours )
1943 – Shawn Phillips , American-South African singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Trisha Noble , Australian singer and actress1945 – Johnny Cymbal , Scottish-American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)1945 – Bob Griese , American football player
1947 – Paul Auster , American author1947 – Dave Davies , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Kinks )
1947 – Stephen McHattie , Canadian actor
1947 – Melanie Safka , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Maev Alexander , Scottish actress1948 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo , East Timorese bishop
1948 – Gavin Henderson , English trumpet player and conductor
1948 – Henning Mankell , Swedish author
1949 – Rick Hautala , American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)1949 – Arthur Kane , American bass player (New York Dolls ) (d. 2004)
1949 – Hennie Kuiper , Dutch cyclist
1950 – Michael W. Dickinson , English jockey and trainer1950 – Morgan Fairchild , American actress
1950 – Pamela Franklin , Japanese-English actress
1950 – John Schlitt , American singer (Petra and Head East )
1951 – Eugenijus Riabovas , Lithuanian footballer and manager1951 – Michael Ruppert , American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1952 – Fred Lynn , American baseball player1953 – Savvas Tsitouridis , Greek politician1954 – Tiger Williams , Canadian ice hockey player1955 – Stephen Euin Cobb , American author1955 – Mike Horner , American porn actor
1955 – Kirsty Wark , Scottish journalist
1956 – John Jefferson , American football player1956 – Nathan Lane , American actor and singer
1956 – Lee Ranaldo , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth )
1957 – Chico Serra , Brazilian race car driver1957 – Steven Stapleton , English singer-songwriter (Nurse With Wound , Current 93 )
1958 – Joe F. Edwards, Jr. , American commander, pilot, and astronaut1958 – Greg Mankiw , American economist
1959 – Thomas Calabro , American actor and director1959 – Yasuharu Konishi , Japanese DJ, producer, and songwriter (Pizzicato Five )
1959 – Ferzan Özpetek , Turkish-Italian director and screenwriter
1959 – Lol Tolhurst , English drummer (The Cure , Presence , Easy Cure , and Levinhurst )
1959 – Óscar Iván Zuluaga , Colombian economist and politician, 67th Colombian Minister of Finance
1960 – Tim Chandler , American bass player (The Swirling Eddies and The Choir )1960 – Marty Jannetty , American wrestler
1960 – Joachim Löw , German footballer and manager
1960 – Malcolm Martineau , Scottish pianist
1960 – Kerry Von Erich , American wrestler (d. 1993)
1961 – Jay Adams , American skateboarder (d. 2014)1961 – Linda Eder , American singer and actress
1961 – Keith Gordon , American actor and director
1961 – Christopher Lowson , English bishop
1962 – Michele Greene , American actress and singer1963 – Raghuram Rajan , Indian economist1964 – Indrek Tarand , Estonian historian, journalist, and politician1964 – Gary Webster , English actor
1965 – Kathleen Kinmont , American actress1965 – Karlous Marx Shinohamba , Namibian politician
1965 – Maura Tierney , American actress
1966 – Frank Coraci , American director and screenwriter1966 – Kostas Patavoukas , Greek basketball player
1967 – Dave Benson Phillips , English actor1967 – Mixu Paatelainen , Finnish footballer and coach
1967 – Bob Taylor , English footballer
1968 – Vlade Divac , Serbian basketball player1969 – Retief Goosen , South African golfer1969 – Robert Pack , American basketball player
1970 – Óscar Córdoba , Colombian footballer1970 – Warwick Davis , English actor
1970 – Ed Husic , Australian politician
1971 – Sean Dawkins , American football player1971 – Elisa Donovan , American actress
1971 – Vincent Elbaz , French actor
1971 – Sarah Kane , English playwright (d. 1999)
1971 – Christian Liljegren , Swedish singer-songwriter (Narnia , Audiovision , and Divinefire )
1971 – Hong Seok-cheon , South Korean actor
1972 – Jesper Kyd , Danish composer1972 – Mart Poom , Estonian footballer
1973 – Ilana Sod , Mexican journalist1974 – Konrad Gałka , Polish swimmer1974 – Julie Meadows , American porn actress
1974 – Miriam Yeung , Hong Kong singer and actress
1975 – Brad Thorn , New Zealand rugby player1976 – Mathieu Dandenault , Canadian ice hockey player1976 – Isla Fisher , Omani-Australian actress
1976 – Tim Heidecker , American comedian, actor, and singer
1976 – Dwayne Rudd , American football player
1977 – Mitra Hajjar , Iranian actress1977 – Daddy Yankee , Puerto Rican rapper
1977 – Marek Židlický , Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Joan Capdevila , Spanish footballer1978 – Sergei Kulichenko , Russian footballer
1978 – Adrian R'Mante , American actor
1978 – Eliza Schneider , American actress and singer
1979 – Becca Fitzpatrick , American author1979 – Marie Zielcke , German actress
1980 – Kim E-Z , South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X. )1980 – Sarah Lewitinn , American record producer and journalist
1981 – Alisa Reyes , American actress1981 – Maurice Ross , Scottish footballer
1982 – Becky Bayless , American wrestler1982 – Marie-Ève Drolet , Canadian speed skater
1982 – Alan Gurr , Australian race car driver
1982 – Jessica Harp , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wreckers )
1982 – Bridget Regan , American actress
1983 – Richard Bartel , American football player1983 – Silambarasan Rajendar , Indian actor, singer, and director
1983 – Gabriel Sargissian , Armenian chess player
1983 – Hillary Scott , American porn actress
1984 – Sara Carbonero , Spanish journalist1984 – Kim Joon , South Korean singer, actor and model1985 – Angela Fong , Canadian wrestler and actress1985 – Andrei Kostitsyn , Belarusian ice hockey player
1986 – Lucas Duda , American baseball player1986 – David Edwards , Welsh footballer
1986 – Mathieu Giroux , Canadian speed skater
1986 – Rebel Wilson , Australian actress
1987 – Elvana Gjata , Albanian singer1988 – Cho Kyuhyun , South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior , Super Junior-M , and Super Junior-K.R.Y )1988 – Nicola Redomi , Italian footballer
1988 – Gregory van der Wiel , Dutch footballer
1989 – Julio Jones , American football player1989 – Slobodan Rajković , Serbian footballer
1989 – Ryne Sanborn , American actor
1990 – Sean Kingston , American-Jamaican singer-songwriter1990 – Sterling Moore , American football player
1991 – Nikola Hofmanova , Austrian tennis player1991 – Glenn McCuen , American actor
1992 – Rory Ferreira , American hip hop musician1993 – Getter Jaani , Estonian singer1997 – Paige Mary Hourigan , New Zealand tennis player
995 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)699 – Werburgh , English saint (b. 650)1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard , Danish husband of Gunhild of Wenden (b. 960)1116 – Coloman, King of Hungary (b. 1070)1399 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)1428 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi , Japanese shogun (b. 1386)1451 – Murad II , Ottoman sultan (b. 1404)1468 – Johannes Gutenberg , German publisher, invented the Printing press (b. 1398)1549 – Sri Suriyothai , Thai wife of Maha Chakkraphat 1566 – George Cassander , Flemish theologian (b. 1513)1619 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham , English conspirator (b. 1564)1737 – Tommaso Ceva , Italian mathematician (b. 1648)1802 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes , Spanish politician (b. 1723)1820 – Gia Long , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)1832 – George Crabbe , English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (b. 1754)1862 – Jean-Baptiste Biot , French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1774)1866 – François-Xavier Garneau , Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)1873 – Isaac Baker Brown , English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)1874 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (b. 1835)1883 – Wilhelm Richard Wagner , German Director and Composer (b. 1813)1889 – Belle Starr , American outlaw (b. 1848)1922 – John Butler Yeats , Irish illustrator (b. 1839)1924 – Woodrow Wilson , American politician, 28th President of the United States , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)1929 – Agner Krarup Erlang , Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)1935 – Hugo Junkers , German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)1936 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (b. 1885)1937 – Marija Leiko , Latvian actress (b. 1887)1944 – Yvette Guilbert , French singer and actress (b. 1865)1945 – Roland Freisler , German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)1947 – Marc Mitscher , American admiral (b. 1887)1950 – Sid Field , English actor (b. 1904)1952 – Harold L. Ickes , American politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)1955 – Vasili Blokhin , Soviet general (b. 1895)1956 – Émile Borel , French mathematician (b. 1871)1956 – Johnny Claes , Belgian race car driver (b. 1916)
1959 – The Day the Music Died
1960 – Fred Buscaglione , Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)1961 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil , Australian politician, 14th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1893)1961 – Anna May Wong , American actress (b. 1905)
1964 – Albert Richardson , English architect, designed the Manchester Opera House (b. 1880)1964 – C. Sittampalam , Ceylon Tamil politician (b. 1898)
1967 – Joe Meek , English songwriter and producer (b. 1929)1969 – C. N. Annadurai Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)1969 – Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican activist (b. 1920)1975 – William D. Coolidge , American physicist (b. 1873)1975 – Umm Kulthum , Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
1980 – Hanna Rovina , Israeli actress (b. 1893)1985 – Frank Oppenheimer , American physicist (b. 1912)1989 – John Cassavetes , American actor (b. 1929)1989 – Lionel Newman , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1916)
1991 – Harry Ackerman , American television producer (b. 1912)1991 – Nancy Kulp , American actress (b. 1921)
1993 – Françoys Bernier , Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)1996 – Audrey Meadows , American actress (b. 1922)1998 – Fat Pat , American rapper (Screwed Up Click ) (b. 1970)1998 – Karla Faye Tucker , American murderer (b. 1959)2000 – Alla Rakha , Indian Tabla Player(b.1919)2002 – Lucien Rivard , Canadian criminal (b. 1914)2003 – Lana Clarkson , American actress and model (b. 1962)2004 – Jason Raize , American actor (b. 1975)2005 – Andreas Makris , Greek-American composer and violinist (b. 1930)2005 – Zurab Zhvania , Georgian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2006 – Al Lewis , American actor (b. 1923)2009 – Sheng-yen , Chinese monk and scholar, founded the Dharma Drum Mountain (b. 1930)2010 – Dick McGuire American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)2010 – Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1925)
2011 – Ron Piché , Canadian baseball player (b. 1935)2011 – Maria Schneider , French actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Karibasavaiah , Indian actor (b. 1959)2012 – Toh Chin Chye , Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1921)
2012 – John Christopher , English author (1922)
2012 – Ben Gazzara , American actor and director (b. 1930)
2012 – Terence Hildner , American general (b. 1962)
2012 – Raj Kanwar , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961)
2012 – Zalman King , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1942)
2012 – Karlo Maquinto , Filipino boxer (b. 1990)
2012 – Andrzej Szczeklik , Polish physician and academic (b. 1938)
2013 – B. H. Born , American basketball player (b. 1932)2013 – Cardiss Collins , American politician (b. 1931)
2013 – John Michael D'Arcy , American bishop (b. 1932)
2013 – Ichikawa Danjūrō XII , Japanese actor (b. 1946)
2013 – Steve Demeter , American baseball player (b. 1935)
2013 – Matija Duh , Slovenian motorcycle racer (b. 1989)
2013 – Oscar Feltsman , Ukrainian-Russian composer (b. 1921)
2013 – Peter Gilmore , German-English actor (b. 1931)
2013 – Arpad Miklos , Hungarian-American porn actor (b. 1967)
2013 – James Muri , American pilot (b. 1918)
2013 – Zlatko Papec , Croatian footballer (b. 1934)
2013 – Deng Wei , Chinese photographer (b. 1959)
2013 – Jam Mohammad Yousaf , Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (b. 1954)
2014 – Louise Brough , American tennis player (b. 1923)2014 – Richard Bull , American actor (b. 1924)
2014 – Louan Gideon , American actress (b. 1955)
2014 – Óscar González , Mexican boxer (b. 1990)
2014 – Gloria Leonard , American porn actress (b. 1940)
2014 – Chiwanki Lyainga , Zambian footballer (b. 1983)
2014 – Joan Mondale , American wife of Walter Mondale , 32nd Second Lady of the United States (b. 1930)
2014 – Bill Sinkin , American activist (b. 1913)
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