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February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (313 in leap years ).
705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty .
1316 – Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 – Galileo 's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651 – St. Peter's Flood : A storm surge floods the Frisian coast , drowning 15,000 people.
1744 – War of the Austrian Succession : The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 – The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard , Wales.
1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty , Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1821 – Greek War of Independence : Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities .
1847 – Mexican–American War : The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans .
1848 – The French Revolution of 1848 , which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic , begins.
1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri .
1855 – The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh .
1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia . He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio , nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 – In Utica, New York , Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1889 – United States President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota , South Dakota , Montana and Washington as U.S. states .
1899 – Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War . The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904 – The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina , the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet , led by USS Connecticut , return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 – World War I : Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare .
1921 – After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House .
1942 – World War II : President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 – World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl , Hans Scholl , and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany .
1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen , Arnhem , Enschede and Deventer , resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog .
1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia .
1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột .
1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic .
1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 .
1972 – The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 – Cold War : Following President Richard Nixon 's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore , Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh .
1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Miracle on Ice : In Lake Placid, New York , the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre .
1986 – Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines .
1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 – The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 – In Roslin , Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned .
2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery , stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge , Kent .
2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch , killing 185 people.
2011 – Bahraini uprising : Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012 – A train crash in Buenos Aires , Argentina , kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2014 – President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328-0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2015 – A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River , killing 70 people.
1040 – Rashi , French rabbi and author (d. 1105)
1403 – Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1440 – Ladislaus the Posthumous , Hungarian king (d. 1457)
1500 – Rodolfo Pio da Carpi , Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
1514 – Tahmasp I , Iranian ruler (d. 1576)
1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach , German violinist and composer (d. 1695)
1645 – Johann Christoph Bach , German pianist and composer (d. 1693)
1705 – Peter Artedi , Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist (d. 1735)
1732 – George Washington , American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
1749 – Johann Nikolaus Forkel , German musician and musicologist (d. 1818)
1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens , German jurist and diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 – Erik Tulindberg , Finnish violinist and composer (d. 1814)
1778 – Rembrandt Peale , American painter and curator (d. 1860)
1779 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert , Swedish composer and musical director (d. 1813)
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher and author (d. 1860)
1796 – Alexis Bachelot , French priest and missionary (d. 1837)
1796 – Adolphe Quetelet , Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist (d. 1874)
1806 – Józef Kremer , Polish historian and philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin , Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt , German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
1819 – James Russell Lowell , American poet and critic (d. 1891)
1824 – Pierre Janssen , French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1907)
1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe , French-American archbishop (d. 1898)
1836 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya , Indian scholar and academic (d. 1906)
1840 – August Bebel , German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1915)
1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell , English general, co-founded The Scout Association (d. 1941)
1857 – Heinrich Hertz , German physicist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1894)
1863 – Charles McLean Andrews , American historian, author, and academic (d. 1943)
1864 – Jules Renard , French author and playwright (d. 1910)
1874 – Bill Klem , American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
1876 – Zitkala-Sa , American author and activist (d. 1938)
1878 – Walther Ritz , Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1909)
1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted , Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
1881 – Joseph B. Ely , American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1956)
1881 – Albin Prepeluh , Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1937)
1882 – Eric Gill , English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)
1883 – Marguerite Clark , American actress (d. 1940)
1886 – Hugo Ball , German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887 – Savielly Tartakower , Polish journalist, author, and chess player (d. 1956)
1888 – Owen Brewster , American captain and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (d. 1961)
1889 – Olave Baden-Powell , English scout leader, founded the Girl Guides (d. 1977)
1889 – R. G. Collingwood , English historian and philosopher (d. 1943)
1890 – Beatriz Michelena , American actress and singer (d. 1942)
1891 – Vlas Chubar , Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay , American poet and playwright (d. 1950)
1895 – Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre , Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897 – Karol Świerczewski , Polish general (d. 1947)
1900 – Luis Buñuel , Spanish director and producer (d. 1983)
1900 – James Sisnett , Barbadian super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1903 – Morley Callaghan , Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990)
1903 – Frank P. Ramsey , British mathematician, philosopher and economist (d. 1930)
1907 – Sheldon Leonard , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1997)
1907 – Robert Young , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1998)
1908 – Rómulo Betancourt , Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
1908 – John Mills , English actor, singer, and producer (d. 2005)
1911 – Bill Baker , American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1913 – Buddy Tate , American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 2001)
1913 – Ranko Marinković , Croatian author and playwright (d. 2001)
1914 – Renato Dulbecco , Italian-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1917 – Reed Crandall , American illustrator (d. 1982)
1918 – Sid Abel , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2000)
1918 – Don Pardo , American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)
1918 – Robert Wadlow , American giant (d. 1940)
1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa , Central African general and politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
1921 – Giulietta Masina , Italian actress (d. 1994)
1922 – Apostolos Santas , Greek soldier (d. 2011)
1922 – Marshall Teague , American race car driver (d. 1959)
1922 – Joe Wilder , American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 2014)
1925 – Edward Gorey , American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
1926 – Kenneth Williams , English actor and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1927 – Florencio Campomanes , Filipino political scientist and chess player (d. 2010)
1927 – Guy Mitchell , American singer (d. 1999)
1928 – Texas Johnny Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1928 – Paul Dooley , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1928 – Bruce Forsyth , English television host
1929 – James Hong , American actor and director
1929 – Rebecca Schull , American actress
1930 – Bill Mitchell , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1930 – Marni Nixon , American soprano and actress
1932 – Ted Kennedy , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2009)
1933 – Justin Capră , Romanian engineer and academic (d. 2015)
1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 – Sheila Hancock , English actress and author
1934 – Sparky Anderson , American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1936 – J. Michael Bishop , American microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Ernie K-Doe , American singer (d. 2001)
1937 – Joanna Russ , American author and activist (d. 2011)
1938 – Steve Barber , American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 – Barry Dennen , American actor and singer
1938 – Ishmael Reed , American author, poet, and playwright
1940 – Judy Cornwell , English actress
1941 – Hipólito Mejía , Dominican politician, 52nd President of the Dominican Republic
1942 – Christine Keeler , English model and dancer
1943 – Terry Eagleton , English philosopher and critic
1943 – Horst Köhler , Polish-German economist and politician, 9th President of Germany
1943 – Otoya Yamaguchi , Japanese assassin of Inejiro Asanuma (d. 1960)
1944 – Jonathan Demme , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Robert Kardashian , American lawyer and businessman (d. 2003)
1944 – Christopher Meyer , English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
1944 – Tom Okker , Dutch tennis player and painter
1945 – Oliver , American singer (d. 2000)
1945 – Ed Kerns , American artist
1946 – Kresten Bjerre , Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1947 – Harvey Mason , American drummer (Fourplay and The Headhunters )
1947 – John Radford , English footballer
1948 – John Ashton , American actor
1948 – Linda de Suza , Portuguese-French singer and actress
1948 – Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore , Irish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
1949 – Niki Lauda , Austrian race car driver
1949 – Olga Morozova , Russian tennis player and coach
1950 – Miou-Miou , French actress
1950 – Julius Erving , American basketball player and sportscaster
1950 – Lenny Kuhr , Dutch singer-songwriter
1950 – Genesis P-Orridge , English singer-songwriter (Psychic TV , Thee Majesty , Pigface , and Splinter Test )
1950 – Julie Walters , English actress and singer
1951 – Ellen Greene , American singer and actress
1952 – Cyrinda Foxe , American model and actress (d. 2002)
1952 – Bill Frist , American physician and politician
1952 – Bernard Silverman , English minister, statistician, and academic
1953 – Graham Lewis , English bass player (Wire and Dome )
1953 – Nigel Planer , English actor and screenwriter
1955 – David Axelrod , American journalist and political adviser
1955 – Tim Young , Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Willie Smits , Dutch microbiologist and engineer
1958 – Dave Spitz , American bass player and songwriter (Black Sabbath , White Lion , Great White , and Impellitteri )
1959 – Jiří Čunek , Czech politician
1959 – Kyle MacLachlan , American actor
1960 – Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde , Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1961 – Akira Takasaki , Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Lazy and Loudness )
1962 – Steve Irwin , Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006)
1963 – Vijay Singh , Fijian-American golfer
1964 – Ed Boon , American video game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat
1964 – Gigi Fernández , Puerto Rican-American tennis player
1965 – Chris Dudley , American basketball player and politician
1965 – Kieren Fallon , Irish jockey
1965 – Pat LaFontaine , American ice hockey player
1966 – Rachel Dratch , American actress and singer
1966 – Thorsten Kaye , German actor
1966 – Aiden Shaw , English porn actor and singer
1967 – Psicosis II , Mexican wrestler
1967 – Alf Poier , Austrian comedian and actor
1968 – Shawn Graham , Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
1968 – Bradley Nowell , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sublime ) (d. 1996)
1968 – Jeri Ryan , American model and actress
1969 – Joaquín Cortés , Spanish actor and dancer
1969 – Thomas Jane , American actor, director, and producer
1969 – Hans Klok , Dutch magician and actor
1969 – Brian Laudrup , Danish footballer and sportscaster
1970 – Ravi Vakil , Canadian-American mathematician and academic
1971 – Super Caló , Mexican wrestler
1971 – Lea Salonga , Filipino actress and singer
1971 – Giuseppe Veneziano , Italian painter
1972 – Michael Chang , American tennis player and coach
1972 – Claudia Pechstein , German speed skater
1973 – Philippe Gaumont , French cyclist (d. 2013)
1973 – Juninho Paulista , Brazilian footballer
1973 – Scott Phillips , American drummer (Creed , Alter Bridge , and Projected )
1974 – James Blunt , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Nina Flowers , Puerto Rican-American drag queen performer
1975 – Drew Barrymore , American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Timo Rose , German actor, director, and producer
1977 – Hakan Yakin , Swiss footballer
1978 – Jenny Frost , English singer and dancer (Precious and Atomic Kitten )
1979 – Brett Emerton , Australian footballer
1979 – Lee Na-young , South Korean actress
1980 – Kang Sung-hoon , South Korean singer (Sechs Kies )
1981 – Jeanette Biedermann , German singer-songwriter and actress
1981 – Adrienne Pickering , Australian actress
1982 – Jenna Haze , American porn actress and director
1982 – Dichen Lachman , Nepalese-Australian actress and producer
1982 – Shawntae Spencer , American football player
1982 – Robert Weiner, Jr. , American water polo player
1983 – Jennifer Ketcham , American porn actress and director
1983 – Iliza Shlesinger , American comedian and actress
1983 – Shaun Tait , Australian cricketer
1984 – Tommy Bowe , Irish rugby player
1984 – Branislav Ivanović , Serbian footballer
1984 – Georgios Printezis , Greek basketball player
1984 – Yuki Sato , Japanese actor
1985 – Hameur Bouazza , Algerian footballer
1985 – Georgios Printezis , Greek basketball player
1985 – Larissa Riquelme , Paraguayan model and actress
1985 – Zach Roerig , American actor
1986 – Choi Daniel , South Korean actor and singer
1986 – Miko Hughes , American actor
1986 – Rajon Rondo , American basketball player
1987 – Han Hyo-joo , South Korean actress and model
1987 – Sergio Romero , Argentinian footballer
1988 – Jonathan Borlée , Belgian sprinter
1988 – Kevin Borlée , Belgian sprinter
1988 – Efraín Juárez , Mexican footballer
1988 – Ximena Navarrete , Mexican model and actress, Miss Universe 2010
1988 – Sebastian Tyrała , Polish-German footballer
1989 – Alia Sabur , American engineer, lawyer, and academic
1989 – Anna Sundstrand , Swedish singer, dancer, and actress (Play )
1989 – Franco Vázquez , Argentinian footballer
1992 – Alexander Merkel , Kazakhstani-German footballer
556 – Maximianus of Ravenna , Italian bishop and saint (b. 499)
606 – Pope Sabinian
965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b. 1055)
1111 – Roger Borsa , Italian son of Robert Guiscard (b. 1060)
1371 – David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
1512 – Amerigo Vespucci , Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454)
1627 – Olivier van Noort , Dutch explorer (b. 1558)
1674 – Jean Chapelain , French poet and critic (b. 1595)
1680 – La Voisin , French occultist (b. 1640)
1690 – Charles Le Brun , French painter and theorist (b. 1619)
1727 – Francesco Gasparini , Italian composer and educator (b. 1661)
1731 – Frederik Ruysch , Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 – Francis Atterbury , English bishop (b. 1663)
1799 – Heshen , Chinese politician (b. 1750)
1816 – Adam Ferguson , Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
1875 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
1875 – Charles Lyell , Scottish-English geologist and lawyer (b. 1797)
1888 – Anna Kingsford , English physician and activist (b. 1846)
1890 – John Jacob Astor III , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
1890 – Carl Bloch , Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
1897 – Charles Blondin , French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
1898 – Heungseon Daewongun , Korean king (b. 1820)
1903 – Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 – Leslie Stephen , English author and critic (b. 1832)
1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure , Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
1923 – Théophile Delcassé , French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)
1934 – Willem Kes , Dutch violinist and conductor (b. 1856)
1939 – Antonio Machado , Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
1942 – Stefan Zweig , Austrian journalist and author (b. 1881)
1943 – Christoph Probst , German activist (b. 1919)
1943 – Hans Scholl , German activist (b. 1918)
1943 – Sophie Scholl , German activist (b. 1921)
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi , Indian activist, wife of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 – Osip Brik , Russian author and critic (b. 1888)
1958 – Abul Kalam Azad , Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education (b. 1888)
1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas , Canadian-French painter (b. 1905)
1961 – Nick LaRocca , American trumpet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band ) (b. 1889)
1965 – Felix Frankfurter , Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand , Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 – Elizabeth Bowen , Irish-English author (b. 1899)
1973 – Katina Paxinou , Greek actress (b. 1900)
1973 – Winthrop Rockefeller , American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
1974 – Samuel Byck , American criminal (b. 1930)
1976 – Angela Baddeley , English actress (b. 1904)
1976 – Florence Ballard , American singer (The Supremes ) (b. 1943)
1977 – Jack O'Connor , English cricketer (b. 1897)
1978 – Phyllis McGinley , American author and poet (b. 1905)
1979 – Sigrid Schauman , Finnish painter and critic (b. 1877)
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
1982 – Josh Malihabadi , Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
1983 – Adrian Boult , English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 – Romain Maes , Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1984 – David Vetter , American SCID victim (b. 1971)
1985 – Salvador Espriu , Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
1985 – Alexander Scourby , American actor (b. 1913)
1985 – Efrem Zimbalist , Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
1987 – Andy Warhol , American painter and photographer (b. 1928)
1994 – Papa John Creach , American violinist (Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna , and The Dinosaurs ) (b. 1917)
1995 – Ed Flanders , American actor (b. 1934)
1997 – Joseph Aiuppa , American gangster (b. 1907)
1997 – Clarrie Harders , Australian public servant (b. 1915)
1998 – Abraham A. Ribicoff , American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1910)
1999 – William Bronk , American poet and academic (b. 1918)
1999 – Menno Oosting , Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2002 – Roden Cutler , Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916)
2002 – Chuck Jones , American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
2002 – Jonas Savimbi , Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
2004 – Andy Seminick , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
2005 – Lee Eun-ju , South Korean actress and singer (b. 1980)
2005 – Simone Simon , French actress (b. 1910)
2006 – Atwar Bahjat , Iraqi journalist (b. 1976)
2006 – Anthony Burger , American pianist and singer (The Kingsmen Quartet ) (b. 1961)
2007 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe , English admiral and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (b. 1918)
2007 – Dennis Johnson , American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
2007 – Howard Ramsey , American soldier (b. 1898)
2008 – Chuck Adamson , American Television producer, screenwriter and police officer (b. 1936)
2008 – Nunzio Gallo , Italian singer (b. 1928)
2009 – Candido Cannavò , Italian journalist (b. 1930)
2010 – Robin Davies , Welsh actor (b. 1954)
2010 – Steffi Sidney , American actress (b. 1935)
2011 – Nicholas Courtney , Egyptian-English actor (b. 1929)
2012 – Sukhbir , Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
2012 – Marie Colvin , American journalist (b. 1956)
2012 – Rémi Ochlik , French photographer and journalist (b. 1983)
2013 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra , Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
2013 – Mario Ramírez , Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1957)
2013 – Wolfgang Sawallisch , German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
2014 – Charlotte Dawson , New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
2014 – Leo Vroman , Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
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