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September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 95 days remaining until the end of the year.
1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme , beginning the Norman conquest of England .1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.1422 – After the brief Gollub War the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits ) receives its charter from Pope Paul III .1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history .1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm .1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans , thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia .1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone .1825 – The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway , is ceremonially opened.1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.1875 – The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard Liverpool ; the United States Congress subsequently awards 27 gold Lifesaving Medals to the lifeboat men who went to rescue her crew.1903 – Wreck of the Old 97 , a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein 's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc² .1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan .1916 – Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu I .1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II .1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open , British Open , U.S. Amateur , and British Amateur .1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth Glasgow .1940 – World War II : The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.1941 – The SS Patrick Henry Liberty ships .1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River .1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II .1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China .1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC .1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2 . Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.1959 – Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon .1961 – Sierra Leone joins the United Nations .1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire .1968 – The stage musical Hair Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973 .1977 – A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashes into a residential neighborhood in Yokohama , Japan, killing two children on the ground and injuring seven other people.1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system .1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar .1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia .1996 – In Afghanistan , the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah .1996 – The Julie N. Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder 1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.2000 – The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for Tae Kwon Do was won by Greek athlete Michalis Mouroutsos in men's -58 kg division in Sydney.2001 – Zug massacre : In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.2002 – Timor-Leste joins the United Nations .2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.2005 – After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry The Karate Guard 2007 – NASA launches the Dawn 2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7 2012 – A mass shooting takes place at Accent Signage Systems, in Minneapolis , Minnesota , killing 6 people, including the gunman who committed suicide, and wounding 2 others.
823 – Ermentrude of Orléans (d. 869)1271 – Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (d. 1305)1275 – John II, Duke of Brabant (d. 1312)1389 – Cosimo de' Medici , Italian ruler (d. 1464)1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu , Japanese samurai (d. 1579)1601 – Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)1627 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet , French bishop and theologian (d. 1704)1643 – Solomon Stoddard , American pastor (d. 1729)1657 – Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (d. 1704)1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1754)1696 – Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori , Italian bishop and saint (d. 1787)1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician and epigrammatist (d. 1800)1722 – Samuel Adams , American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1803)1729 – Michael Denis , Austrian lepidopterist, author, and poet (d. 1800)1739 – Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock , Irish politician (d. 1767)1765 – Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille , French general (d. 1794)1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph , American wife of Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (d. 1836)1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont , American admiral (d. 1865)1805 – George Müller , German-English evangelist and missionary, founded the Ashley Down Orphanage (d. 1898)1818 – Hermann Kolbe , German chemist and academic (d. 1884)1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel , Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1881)1824 – William "Bull" Nelson , American general (d. 1862)1830 – William Babcock Hazen , American general (d. 1887)1838 – Lawrence Sullivan Ross , American general and politician, 19th Governor of Texas (d. 1898)1840 – Alfred Thayer Mahan , American captain and historian (d. 1914)1840 – Thomas Nast , German-American cartoonist (d. 1902)
1842 – Alphonse François Renard , Belgian geologist and petrographer (d. 1903)1843 – Gaston Tarry , French mathematician and academic (d. 1913)1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson , American poet and author (d. 1933)1864 – Andrej Hlinka , Slovak priest and politician (d. 1938)1866 – Eurosia Fabris , Italian saint (d. 1932)1871 – Grazia Deledda , Italian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)1871 – George Ducker , Canadian soccer player (d. 1952)
1879 – Hans Hahn , Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1934)1879 – Frederick Schule , American hurdler and coach (d. 1962)
1879 – Cyril Scott , English poet and composer (d. 1970)
1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr. , American magician (d. 1965)1885 – Charles Benjamin Howard , Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1964)
1894 – Olive Tell , American actress and singer (d. 1951)1894 – Lothar von Richthofen , German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1922)
1895 – Woolf Barnato , English race car driver and financier (d. 1948)1896 – Sam Ervin , American politician (d. 1985)1898 – Vincent Youmans , American composer and producer (d. 1946)1904 – Edvard Kocbek , Slovenian poet and politician (d. 1981)1905 – Conrad Heidkamp , German footballer and manager (d. 1994)1906 – William Empson , English poet and critic (d. 1984)1906 – Jim Thompson , American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1906 – Sergei Varshavsky , Russian art collector and author (d. 1980)
1907 – Maurice Blanchot , French philosopher and theorist (d. 2003)1907 – Bernard Miles , English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1911 – John Harvey , English actor (d. 1982)1911 – Marcey Jacobson , American-Mexican photographer (d. 2009)
1913 – Albert Ellis , American psychologist and author (d. 2007)1916 – S. Yizhar , Israeli academic and politician (d. 2006)1917 – Louis Auchincloss , American lawyer, historian, and author (d. 2010)1917 – Carl Ballantine , American magician and actor (d. 2009)
1917 – William T. Orr , American actor and producer (d. 2002)
1918 – Martin Ryle , English astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)1919 – Charles H. Percy , American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)1919 – James H. Wilkinson , American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
1920 – William Conrad , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1994)1920 – Jayne Meadows , Chinese-American actress and author
1921 – Miklós Jancsó , Hungarian director and screenwriter (d. 2014)1921 – Milton Subotsky , American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions (d. 1991)
1921 – Bernard Waber , American author and illustrator (d. 2013)
1922 – Sammy Benskin , American pianist and bandleader (d. 1992)1922 – Arthur Penn , American director and producer (d. 2010)
1924 – Ernest Becker , American-Canadian anthropologist, author, and academic (d. 1974)1924 – Bud Powell , American pianist (d. 1966)
1924 – Fred Singer , Austrian-American physicist and academic
1924 – Josef Škvorecký , Czech-Canadian author and publisher (d. 2012)
1925 – Robert Edwards , English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)1925 – George Gladir , American author (d. 2013)
1927 – Chrysostomos I of Cyprus (d. 2007)1927 – Red Rodney , American trumpet player (d. 1994)
1927 – Romano Scarpa , Italian author and illustrator (d. 2005)
1927 – Steve Stavro , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2006)
1928 – Margaret Rule , English archaeologist and historian1929 – Calvin Jones , American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2004)1929 – Bruno Junk , Estonian race walker (d. 1995)
1929 – Barbara Murray , English actress (d. 2014)
1930 – Paul Reichmann , Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (d. 2013)1931 – Freddy Quinn , Austrian singer, guitarist, and actor1932 – Geoff Bent , English footballer (d. 1958)1932 – Roger C. Carmel , American actor (d. 1986)
1932 – Yash Chopra , Pakistani-Indian director and producer (d. 2012)
1932 – Michael Colvin , English politician (d. 2000)
1932 – Gabriel Loubier , Canadian politician
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Rodney Cotterill , Danish-English physicist and neuroscientist (d. 2007)1933 – Paul Goble , English-American author and illustrator
1933 – Greg Morris , American actor (d. 1996)
1933 – Will Sampson , American actor (d. 1987)
1934 – Wilford Brimley , American actor1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr. , American actor and producer
1934 – Dick Schaap , American sportscaster (d. 2001)
1935 – Al MacNeil , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1936 – Don Cornelius , American television host and producer, created Soul Train 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe , English actor, playwright, and author
1937 – Vasyl Durdynets , Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine 1938 – Jean-Loup Dabadie , French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter1939 – Nicholas Haslam , English interior designer and author1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson , American author, poet, and playwright
1939 – Kathy Whitworth , American golfer
1940 – Josephine Barstow , English soprano1940 – Benoni Beheyt , Belgian cyclist
1941 – Peter Bonetti , English footballer and coach1941 – Gay Kayler , Australian singer
1941 – Serge Ménard , Canadian lawyer and politician
1941 – Don Nix , American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (The Mar-Keys )
1942 – Dith Pran , Cambodian photographer and journalist (d. 2008)1942 – Alvin Stardust , English singer and actor (d. 2014)
1943 – Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta 1943 – Randy Bachman , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Guess Who , Ironhorse ,Bachman–Turner Overdrive , Bachman & Turner , and Brave Belt )
1943 – Max Boyce , Welsh comedian and singer
1944 – Ian Garnett , English admiral1944 – Gary Sutherland , American baseball player
1945 – Jack Goldstein , Canadian-American painter (d. 2003)1945 – Bob Spiers , Scottish-English director and producer (d. 2008)
1946 – Nicos Anastasiades , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 7th President of Cyprus 1946 – T. C. Cannon , American painter (d. 1978)
1946 – Robin Nedwell , English actor (d. 1999)
1947 – Barbara Dickson , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress1947 – Denis Lawson , Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Meat Loaf , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1947 – Liz Torres , American actress and singer
1948 – Tom Braidwood , Canadian actor, director, and producer1948 – Les Chapman , English footballer and manager
1948 – Michele Dotrice , English actress
1948 – Duncan Fletcher , Rhodesian-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1948 – Robin Jackson , Irish soldier (d. 1998)
1948 – A Martinez , American actor and singer
1949 – Graham Richardson , Australian journalist and politician, 39th Australian Minister for Health 1949 – Mike Schmidt , American baseball player and coach
1949 – Jahn Teigen , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Japanese-American actor and martial artist1951 – Paul Craig , English academic and author1951 – Anthony Laciura , American tenor and actor
1951 – Michel Rivard , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beau Dommage )
1951 – Jim Shooter , American author and illustrator
1951 – David Starobin , American guitarist, producer, and director
1951 – Steve Soper , English race car driver
1952 – Katie Fforde , English author1952 – Dumitru Prunariu , Romanian pilot, engineer, and astronaut
1952 – André Viger , Canadian wheelchair racer (d. 2006)
1953 – Diane Abbott , English politician1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi , Indian guru and saint
1953 – Claudio Gentile , Italian footballer and manager
1953 – Greg Ham , Australian keyboard player, saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work ) (d. 2012)
1954 – Ray Hadley , Australian radio and television host1954 – Dmitry Sitkovetsky , Russian violinist and conductor
1954 – Larry Wall , American computer programmer and author
1955 – Richard Bucher , Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2012)1956 – Steve Archibald , Scottish footballer and manager1957 – Bill Athey , English cricketer, footballer, and coach1957 – John Inverdale , English radio and television host
1957 – Peter Sellars , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1958 – Shaun Cassidy , American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter1958 – Irvine Welsh , Scottish author and playwright
1959 – Beth Heiden , American speed skater1960 – Jean-Marc Barr , German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1960 – Christopher Cousins , American actor
1961 – Andy Lau , Hong Kong singer, actor, and producer1962 – Kimberly Carson , American porn actress1962 – Gavin Larsen , New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
1963 – Marc Maron , American comedian, actor, and radio host1964 – Predrag Brzaković , Serbian footballer (d. 2012)1964 – Johnny du Plooy , South African boxer (d. 2013)
1964 – Stephan Jenkins , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Third Eye Blind )
1965 – Ricky Fuji , Japanese wrestler1965 – Steve Kerr , American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Bernard Lord , Canadian politician, 30th Premier of New Brunswick
1965 – Peter MacKay , Canadian lawyer and politician, 50th Canadian Minister of Justice
1965 – Alexis Stewart , American radio and television host
1966 – Don Jamieson , American comedian and television host1966 – Uche Okechukwu , Nigerian footballer
1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz , American politician
1966 – Stephanie Wilson , American engineer and astronaut
1968 – Mari Kiviniemi , Finnish politician, 41st Prime Minister of Finland 1968 – Patrick Muldoon , American actor, singer, and guitarist
1969 – Sofia Milos , Swiss-American actress1970 – Yoshiharu Habu , Japanese chess player1970 – Tamara Taylor , Canadian actress
1971 – Amanda Detmer , American actress1971 – Horacio Sandoval , Mexican illustrator
1971 – Li Yapeng , Chinese actor
1972 – Sylvia Crawley , American basketball player and coach1972 – Lhasa de Sela , American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2010)
1972 – Clara Hughes , Canadian cyclist
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow , American actress and singer
1972 – Craig L. Rice , American politician
1974 – Carrie Brownstein , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney )1974 – Sascha Licht , German footballer
1975 – Thanos Petrelis , Greek singer1976 – Matt Harding , American video game designer and dancer1976 – Jason Phillips , American baseball player and coach
1976 – Francesco Totti , Italian footballer
1977 – Andrus Värnik , Estonian javelin thrower1978 – Ani Lorak , Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actress1978 – Jon Rauch , American baseball player
1978 – Mihaela Ursuleasa , Romanian pianist (d. 2012)
1979 – Jon Garland , American baseball player1979 – La'Myia Good , American singer and actress (Isyss )
1979 – Zita Görög , Hungarian model and actress
1979 – Christian Jones , Australian race car driver
1979 – Steve Simpson , Australian rugby player
1980 – Asashōryū Akinori , Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna 1980 – Ehron VonAllen , American singer-songwriter and producer
1981 – Cytherea , American porn actress and producer1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji , Indian cricketer
1981 – Sophie Crumb , American illustrator
1981 – Brendon McCullum , New Zealand cricketer
1982 – Anna Camp , American actress1982 – Zero Kazama , Japanese-American actor and game show host
1982 – Jon McLaughlin , American singer-songwriter
1982 – Markus Rosenberg , Swedish footballer
1982 – Lil Wayne , American rapper, producer, and actor (The B.G.'z , Hot Boys , and Cash Money Millionaires )
1982 – Darrent Williams , American football player (d. 2007)
1983 – Jeon Hye-bin , South Korean actress and singer (LUV )1983 – Shermon Tang , Hong Kong actress
1984 – Paul Bevan , Australian footballer1984 – Davide Capello , Italian footballer
1984 – John Lannan , American baseball player
1984 – Avril Lavigne , Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1984 – Abhinav Shukla , Indian actor
1985 – Massimo Bertocchi , Canadian decathlete1985 – Grace Helbig , American actress and blogger
1985 – Daniel Pudil , Czech footballer
1985 – Ibrahim Touré , Ivorian footballer (d. 2014)
1986 – Vin Mazzaro , American baseball player1986 – Ricardo Risatti , Argentinian race car driver
1987 – Ádám Bogdán , Hungarian footballer1987 – Austin Carlile , American singer-songwriter (Attack Attack! and Of Mice & Men )
1987 – Olga Puchkova , Russian tennis player
1988 – Lisa Ryzih , German pole vaulter1989 – Park Tae-hwan , South Korean swimmer1991 – Ousmane Barry , Guinean footballer1991 – Simona Halep , Romanian tennis player
1991 – Anete Paulus , Estonian footballer
1992 – Jake Burbage , American actor1992 – Luc Castaignos , Dutch footballer
1992 – Pak Kwang-ryong , North Korean footballer
1992 – Ryan O'Shaughnessy , Irish singer-songwriter and actor
1992 – Gabriel Vasconcelos Ferreira , Brazilian footballer
1992 – Granit Xhaka , Swiss footballer
1993 – Lisandro Magallán , Argentinian footballer1993 – Patrick Mölleken , German actor
1993 – Mónica Puig , Puerto Rican tennis player
1993 – Vinnie Sunseri , American football player
1995 – Lina Leandersson , Swedish actress1995 – Anderson Lim , Bruneian swimmer
1996 – Princess Iman bint Abdullah of Jordan2011 – Giorgi Bagrationi , Spanish-Georgian son of David Bagration of Mukhrani
1249 – Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse (b. 1197)1404 – William of Wykeham , English bishop (b. 1320)1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)1590 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)1660 – Vincent de Paul , French priest and saint (b. 1581)1674 – Thomas Traherne , English clergyman, poet, and theologian (b. 1637)1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)1719 – George Smalridge , English bishop (b. 1662)1730 – Laurence Eusden , English poet (b. 1688)1735 – Peter Artedi , Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (b. 1705)1737 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (b. 1680)1742 – Hugh Boulter , Irish archbishop (b. 1672)1783 – Étienne Bézout , French mathematician and theorist (b. 1730)1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , German philosopher and author (b. 1781)1833 – Ram Mohan Roy , Indian humanitarian and reformer (b. 1772)1838 – Bernard Courtois , French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1777)1876 – Braxton Bragg , American general (b. 1817)1886 – Charles Gordon Greene , American journalist and politician (b. 1804)1891 – Ivan Goncharov , Russian author and critic (b. 1812)1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy , French geologist and academic (b. 1844)1915 – Remy de Gourmont , French author, poet, and critic (b. 1858)1917 – Edgar Degas , French painter and sculptor (b. 1834)1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck , German composer (b. 1854)1940 – Walter Benjamin , German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson , Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)1956 – Gerald Finzi , English composer and educator (b. 1901)1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias , American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst , English activist (b. 1882)1965 – Clara Bow , American actress and singer (b. 1905)1965 – William Stanier , English engineer, co-designed the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (b. 1876)
1967 – Felix Yusupov , Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (b. 1887)1972 – S. R. Ranganathan , Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)1974 – Silvio Frondizi , Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907)1975 – Jack Lang , Australian politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)1979 – Gracie Fields , English-Italian actress and singer (b. 1898)1979 – Jimmy McCulloch , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (One in a Million , Small Faces , Wings , Thunderclap Newman , and The Dukes ) (b. 1953)
1981 – Robert Montgomery , American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1904)1983 – Wilfred Burchett , Australian journalist and author (b. 1911)1984 – Chronis Exarhakos , Greek actor (b. 1932)1985 – Lloyd Nolan , American actor and singer (b. 1902)1986 – Cliff Burton , American bass player and songwriter (Metallica , EZ-Street , and Trauma ) (b. 1962)1991 – Joe Hulme , English footballer and cricketer (b. 1904)1991 – Oona O'Neill , English-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
1993 – Jimmy Doolittle , American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)1993 – Fraser MacPherson , Canadian saxophonist (b. 1928)
1996 – Mohammad Najibullah , Afghan physician and politician, 7th President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)1997 – Walter Trampler , American viola player and educator (b. 1915)1998 – Narita Brian , Japanese race horse (b. 1991)1998 – Shawn Phelan , American actor (b. 1975)
1998 – Doak Walker , American football player (b. 1927)
2003 – Donald O'Connor , American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)2004 – John E. Mack , American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)2005 – Ronald Golias , Brazilian comedian and actor (b. 1929)2006 – Helmut Kallmeyer , German chemist and Action T4 perpetrator (b. 1910)2007 – Dale Houston , American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)2007 – Kenji Nagai , Japanese photographer and journalist (b. 1957)
2008 – Mahendra Kapoor , Indian singer (b. 1934)2009 – Ivan Dykhovichny , Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1947)2009 – Charles Houston , American physician and mountaineer (b. 1913)
2009 – William Safire , American author and journalist (b. 1929)
2010 – George Blanda , American football player (b. 1927)2010 – Balaji Sadasivan , Singaporean neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Singapore (b. 1955)
2010 – Trevor Taylor , English race car driver (b. 1936)
2011 – David Croft , English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)2011 – Johnny "Country" Mathis , American singer-songwriter (Jimmy & Johnny ) (b. 1933)
2012 – Eddie Bert , American trombonist (b. 1922)2012 – R. B. Greaves , Guyanese-American singer (b. 1943)
2012 – Herbert Lom , Czech-English actor and singer (b. 1917)
2012 – John Silber , American academic and politician (b. 1926)
2012 – Sanjay Surkar , Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
2012 – Frank Wilson , American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2013 – Gates Brown , American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)2013 – Oscar Castro-Neves , Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
2013 – Elvin R. Heiberg III , American general (b. 1932)
2013 – Tuncel Kurtiz , Turkish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – A. C. Lyles , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
2013 – Albert Naughton , English rugby player (b. 1929)
2013 – Jay Robinson , American actor (b. 1930)
2014 – Gaby Aghion , French fashion designer, founded Chloé (b. 1921)2014 – Eugie Foster , American journalist and author (b. 1971)
2014 – Taylor Hardwick , American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (b. 1925)
2014 – Wally Hergesheimer , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2014 – Abdelmajid Lakhal , Tunisian actor and director (b. 1939)
2014 – Sarah Danielle Madison , American actress (b. 1974)
2014 – James Traficant , American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
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