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September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 112 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
- 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
- 1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
- 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
- 1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
- 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
- 1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
- 1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
- 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
- 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
- 1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- 1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
- 1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
- 1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
- 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
- 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- 1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
- 1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
- 1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
- 1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
- 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
- 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
- 1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
- 1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- 1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
- 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
- 1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
- 1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, the largest church in Africa, is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
- 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- 2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
- 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
- 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
- 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
- 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Births
- 920 – Louis IV of France (d. 954)
- 1169 – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
- 1487 – Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
- 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish commander (d. 1615)
- 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, soldier and politician (d. 1634)
- 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
- 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
- 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
- 1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
- 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
- 1753 – John Soane, English architect (d. 1837)
- 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
- 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
- 1786 – William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
- 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
- 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
- 1821 – William Jervois, English engineer, caption, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
- 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American commander and politician (d. 1906)
- 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
- 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1914)
- 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
- 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma (d. 1935)
- 1855 – Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (d. 1895)
- 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
- 1861 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1941)
- 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
- 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
- 1872 – K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Indian prince and cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942)
- 1880 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet (d. 1966)
- 1883 – Jock Delves Broughton, English accused murderer (d. 1942)
- 1884 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964)
- 1885 – Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
- 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1961)
- 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
- 1887 – Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (d. 1976)
- 1890 – Bob Heffron, Australian politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
- 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (d. 1973)
- 1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
- 1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (d. 2009)
- 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Russian director (d. 1956)
- 1895 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet (d. 1976)
- 1896 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (d. 1981)
- 1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)
- 1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
- 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer (d. 1962)
- 1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1898 – Waldo Semon, American chemist (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English critic (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)
- 1904 – Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
- 1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
- 1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Angus Bethune, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
- 1908 – Raymond Scott, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1908 – Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist (d. 1996)
- 1912 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
- 1913 – Lincoln Gordon, American diplomat and academic (d. 2009)
- 1914 – Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Robert Wise, American director (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German-American acting dog (d. 1932)
- 1919 – Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- 1924 – Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader and educator, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
- 1925 – Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1925 – Dick Lucas, English preacher and evangelical church leader
- 1926 – Beryl Cook, English painter (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician
- 1928 – Walter Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (d. 1989)
- 1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche
- 1929 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1979)
- 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer
- 1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
- 1932 – Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
- 1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
- 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
- 1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
- 1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1934 – Jim Oberstar, American politician
- 1934 – Larry Sitsky, Australian composer, pianist, and educator
- 1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet
- 1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
- 1939 – Cynthia Lennon, English ex-wife of John Lennon
- 1939 – Hans Sotin, German opera singer
- 1939 – David Stratton, English-Australian critic and television host
- 1940 – Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and producer
- 1940 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
- 1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music
- 1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997)
- 1942 – Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer (Three Dog Night)
- 1943 – Eldridge Coleman, American wrestler
- 1943 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor
- 1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author
- 1944 – Thomas Allen, English opera singer
- 1945 – Dennis Burkley, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1945 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1945 – Gerard Henderson, Australian columnist
- 1945 – Mike Mullane, American astronaut
- 1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
- 1946 – Jim Hines, American sprinter
- 1946 – Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1946 – Don Powell, English drummer (Slade)
- 1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese author
- 1948 – Tony Gatlif, French director
- 1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
- 1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player
- 1948 – Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress, author, and photographer
- 1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player
- 1949 – Don Muraco, American wrestler
- 1949 – Bill O'Reilly, American television host and author
- 1950 – Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aerosmith and The Joe Perry Project)
- 1950 – Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist (Asleep at the Wheel)
- 1951 – Harry Groener, German-American actor
- 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink
- 1952 – Vic Toews, Canadian politician
- 1953 – Yannis Bezos, Greek actor
- 1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
- 1954 – Clark Johnson, American actor
- 1956 – Johnnie Fingers, Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (The Boomtown Rats)
- 1956 – Johnny Hickman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cracker)
- 1956 – Erick Zonca, French director
- 1957 – Kate Burton, Welsh-American actress
- 1957 – Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter (T'Pau)
- 1957 – Andreï Makine, Russian-French author
- 1958 – Chris Columbus, American director
- 1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Bananarama and Shakespears Sister)
- 1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor
- 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American illustrator and writer
- 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
- 1960 – Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven)
- 1962 – Co Stompé, Dutch darts player
- 1962 – Wiljan Vloet, Dutch football manager
- 1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player
- 1963 – Marian Keyes, Irish novelist
- 1963 – Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (All, Descendents, The Lemonheads, and Only Crime)
- 1964 – John E. Sununu, American politician
- 1965 – Robin Goodridge, English drummer (Bush, Spear of Destiny, and Stone Gods)
- 1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
- 1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper and producer (Juice Crew)
- 1968 – Guy Ritchie, English director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1969 – Ai Jing, Chinese singer and painter
- 1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor
- 1970 – Dean Gorré, Dutch Surinamese football coach and footballplayer
- 1970 – Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
- 1970 – Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter (Drop Nineteens)
- 1971 – Joe Bravo, American jockey
- 1972 – James Duval, American actor
- 1972 – Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer
- 1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian heptathlete
- 1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
- 1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
- 1973 – Nance Coolen, Dutch TV host and the lead-singer of Twenty 4 Seven
- 1973 – Mark Huizinga, Dutch judoka
- 1974 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian martial artist and politician
- 1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor
- 1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- 1975 – Melanie Pullen, American photographer
- 1975 – Dan O'Toole, Canadian television sports anchor
- 1976 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
- 1976 – Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
- 1976 – Matt Morgan, American wrestler and actor
- 1976 – Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player
- 1979 – Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
- 1979 – Jacob Young, American actor and singer
- 1980 – Michelle Alves, Brazilian model
- 1980 – Jayam Ravi, Indian actor
- 1981 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 – Germán Denis, Argentine footballer
- 1982 – Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Fernando Belluschi, Argentine footballer
- 1983 – Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
- 1983 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
- 1985 – Aya Kamiki, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1985 – Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
- 1985 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Matsuda Shota, Japanese actor
- 1986 – Eoin Morgan, Irish cricketer
- 1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight and NEWS)
- 1987 – Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
- 1987 – Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Jared Lee Loughner, American murderer
- 1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian model
- 1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 – Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
- 1990 – Chandler Massey, American actor
- 1991 – Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
- 1991 – Adam Nichols, British musician
- 1992 – Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
Deaths
- 210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, Chinese emperor (b. 259 BC)
- 918 – Baldwin II, Count of Flanders (b. 865)
- 1167 – Empress Matilda of England (b. 1102)
- 1197 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
- 1217 – William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon
- 1306 – Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian saint and mystic (b. 1245)
- 1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
- 1382 – Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
- 1419 – John the Fearless, French son of Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (b. 1371)
- 1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian contractor (b. 1422)
- 1519 – John Colet, English churchman and educator (b. 1467)
- 1559 – Anthony Denny, English friend of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
- 1591 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
- 1604 – William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (b. 1545)
- 1607 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
- 1669 – Henrietta Maria of France (b. 1609)
- 1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
- 1680 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1610)
- 1748 – Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
- 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
- 1759 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
- 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
- 1801 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
- 1842 – William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
- 1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 10th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
- 1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
- 1889 – Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
- 1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
- 1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
- 1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
- 1915 – Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher (b. 1879 )
- 1919 – J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1856)
- 1920 – Olive Thomas, American actress and model (b. 1894)
- 1922 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and writer (b. 1840)
- 1923 – Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
- 1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
- 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
- 1933 – Stanislaw Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1934 – George Henschel, German-English opera singer, conductor, composer (b. 1850)
- 1935 – Huey Long, American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
- 1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
- 1938 – Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
- 1939 – Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German SS general (b. 1888)
- 1948 – Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
- 1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect (b. 1866)
- 1954 – Peter Anders, German tenor (b. 1908)
- 1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
- 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
- 1965 – Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
- 1965 – Abdul Hamid, Indian soldier (b. 1933)
- 1966 – Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
- 1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
- 1973 – Cornelia Meigs, American children's author (b. 1884)
- 1975 – Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (b. 1899)
- 1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
- 1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
- 1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- 1983 – Norah Lofts, English novelist (b. 1904)
- 1983 – Jon Brower Minnoch, American man, Heaviest recorded person (b. 1941)
- 1983 – B. J. Vorster, South African politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
- 1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
- 1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
- 1994 – Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
- 1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
- 1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
- 1997 – Fritz Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1929)
- 1998 – Carl Forgione, English actor (b. 1944)
- 1999 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (b. 1921)
- 2001 – DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ (b. 1969)
- 2004 – Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American guitarist (b. 1924)
- 2006 – Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king, 9th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1918)
- 2006 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American son of Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
- 2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
- 2007 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
- 2008 – Domagoj Kapec, Croatian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
- 2010 – Gizela Dali, Greek actress (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Vondell Darr, American actress (b. 1919)
- 2012 – György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Robert Gammage, American politician (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Lance LeGault, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2012 – Stanley Long, English director and producer (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician (b. 1939)
- 2012 – John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Steven Springer, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1951)
- 2012 – James Wellbeloved, English politician (b. 1926)
Holidays and observances
- Amerindian Heritage Day (Guyana)
- Christian feast day:
- Edmund James Peck, Missionary to the Eskimo, 1924 (commemoration, Anglican Church of Canada)
- National Day (Gibraltar)
- Teacher's Day (People's Republic of China and Hong Kong)
- World Suicide Prevention Day (international)
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