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Hit Songs 
 "A Forest" – The Cure
 "All Out of Love" – Air Supply
 "Any Way You Want It" – Journey
 "Another One Bites The Dust"-Queen
 "Ashes To Ashes" – David Bowie
 "Babe" – Styx
 "Back Together Again" – Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
 "Borrowed Time" – Styx
 "Breaking the Law" – Judas Priest
 "Cheap Wine" – Cold Chisel
 "Fool in the Rain" – Led Zeppelin
 "Freewill" – Rush
 "Good Morning Girl" – Journey
 "Hungry Heart" – Bruce Springsteen
 "I Can't Tell You Why" – The Eagles
 "I Hope I Never – Split Enz
 "Living After Midnight" – Judas Priest
 "London Calling" – The Clash
 "Love The World Away" – Kenny Rogers
 "Metal Gods" – Judas Priest
 "On And On And On" – ABBA
 "People – Mi-Sex
 "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" – Aerosmith
 "Sexy Eyes" – Dr. Hook
 "Stay Awhile" – Journey
 "Suddenly" – Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard
 "Super Trouper" – ABBA
 "The Winner Takes It All" – ABBA
 "Too Late" – Journey
 "Train in Vain" – The Clash
 "Tulsa Time" – Eric Clapton
 "Turn It On Again" – Genesis
"Why Me" – Styx
 "You May Be Right" – Billy Joel
 (Just Like) Starting Over – John Lennon
 Another Brick In The Wall, Part II – Pink Floyd
 Another One Bites The Dust- Queen
 Call Me – Blondie
 Coming Up – Paul McCartney & Wings
 Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
 It's Still Rock And Roll To Me – Billy Joel
 Lady – Kenny Rogers
 Magic -Olivia Newton-John
 Rock With You – Michael Jackson
 Upside Down – Diana Ross
 Woman In Love'' – Barbra Streisand
Births 
January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American singer, Nightclub owner
March 26 - Giora Feidman, Israeli clarinetist
May 7 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
May 16 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor (d. 2010)
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
July 10 - Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (d. 2015)
December 22 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow
October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel prize winner (chemistry)

Deaths 
January 16 - Albert Fish (executed by electrocution)
January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer
March 9 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru.
Events 
January 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 – Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
January 20 – Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
January 24 – Albert Serraut's government begins in France.
January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
February 10-15 – Italian troops defeat Abyssinian army in Enderta
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
February 19 – Manuel Aznar's government begins in Spain
February 26 – 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo. They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education
February 29 – Emperor Hirohito orders Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices – 19 of them are executed in July.
December 11 – King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry the woman he loves.
Summer-The central and southern United States are hit by a major heat wave.
Movies released 
After the Thin Man

Hit songs
 "The Way You Look Tonight" – by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, from the movie Swing Time, won the Academy Award for the best song.

Nobel Prizes
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Henry Hallett Dale, and Otto Loewi.
Up to 1900 
 1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book Safarnameh.
 1279 - The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
 1496 – England King Henry VII issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
 1616 - Nicolaus Copernicus' book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Roman Catholic Church.
 1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
 1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
 1793 – French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1811 - Peninsular War: A French force under command of Marshal Victor is heavily defeated while trying to prevent an English-Spanish-Portuguese army from ending the Siege of Cadiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
 1821 – James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
 1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
 1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
 1842 – Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
 1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
 1849 – Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a railway bridge, linking the Isle of Anglesey to mainland Wales across the Menai Strait, opens.
 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 – The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
 1861 – Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
 1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
 1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
 1878 - Manchester United Football Club is founded under the name of Newton Heath LYR FC.
 1888 – Samuel Teleki and Ludwig von Hoehnal reach Lake Rudolf, present-day Lake Turkana in the Great Rift Valley. It lies in what is now Kenya.
 1894 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1901 - 1950 
 1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
 1905 – Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
 1907 – The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
 1915 – World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
 1916 – Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
 1916 - Off Santos, Brazil, Spanish luxury liner Principe de Asturias hits a rock and sinks within five minutes, killing 445 people.
 1917 – Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
 1918 – Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
 1919 - The main railway station in Helsinki opens.
1924 – Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
 1929 – LanChile airline begins operations.
 1931 – Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
 1933 – In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
 1936 – First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
 1940 – Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 22000 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.
 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
 1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
 1946 - The Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the left bloc.
 1948 – US rocket flies a record 4800 km/h to 126 km height.
 1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1951 - 2000 
 1953 – Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
 1955 – President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
 1956 – Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
 1956 – "King Kong" first televised.
 1958 – Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
 1958 – Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
 1960 - Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photograph of Che Guevara.
 1960 – Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
 1963 – Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
 1964 – Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
 1964 – Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
 1965 – First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
 1966 – A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
1966 – In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
 1966 – Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
 1968 – US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
 1970 – A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
 1970 – Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
 1971 – First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
 1973 – Two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France, killing 68 people.
 1973 – Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
 1974 – "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
 1976 – British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
 1978 – Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 – Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
 1979 – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
 1980 – Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
 1981 – Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
 1982 – SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
 1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
 1983 – Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
 1983 - In the oldest regular match in international rugby union, Scotland achieves its most recent away win over England to-date, winning 22-12 at Twickenham Stadium in London.
 1984 - 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
 1985 – The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
 1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
1991 – Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
 1993 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
 1998 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
 1998 – NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
 1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
From 2001 
 2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
 2001 – In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
 2002 – MTV begins airing The Osbournes.
 2003 – University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
 2003 – Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
 2003 – Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
 2006 - The BBC's major nature documentary series "Planet Earth" is broadcast for the first time.
 2013 - President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez dies, after a Presidency of over 14 years, of complications from cancer.

Births
Up to 1800 
 1133 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
 1324 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
 1326 – King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
 1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish map maker (d. 1594)
 1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
 1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
 1658 - Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
 1685 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
 1703 - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
 1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
 1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
 1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physician and statesman (d. 1819)
 1756 - Nathaniel Alexander, 13th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1808)
1801  1900 
 1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
 1832 - Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (d. 1881)
 1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
 1853 - Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d. 1911)
 1855 - Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d. 1857)
 1858 - José Relvas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
 1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
 1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
 1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
 1874 – Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
 1879 – William Henry Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
 1882 - Arthur Hussey, American golfer (d. 1915)
 1886 - Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
 1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1888 - Jeff Tesreau, American baseball player (d. 1946)
 1890 - Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d. 1961)
 1893 - Konstantin Muraviev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1973)
 1897 - Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (d. 1960)
 1898 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living person (d. 2015)
 1898 – Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China (d. 2003)
 1898 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d. 1976)
 1900 - Anna Henderson, American supercentenarian (d. 2014)
1901 - 1950 
 1901 - Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (d. 1974)
 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
 1908 – Rex Harrison, British actor (d. 1990)
 1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer and playwright (d. 1990)
 1910 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
 1910 - Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (d. 1972)
 1912 - Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
 1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
 1915 - Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
 1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
 1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
 1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
 1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009) 
 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d. 1975)
 1923 - Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
 1924 - Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
 1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d. 2015)
 1929 - J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
 1930 - John Ashley, NHL referee (d. 2008)
 1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
 1931 - Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d. 2019)
 1933 - Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
 1933 - Walter Kasper, German cardinal
 1933 - Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (d. 2018)
 1933 – Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1982)
 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
 1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
 1935 - Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist
 1936 – Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
 1937 – Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time former President of Nigeria
 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American evolutionary biologist (d. 2011)
 1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
 1940 – Josef Piontek, German footballer
 1940 - John W. Carlin, 40th Governor of Kansas
1942 – Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
 1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction writer
 1943 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
 1943 - Christian Führer, German pastor and activist (d. 2014) 
 1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist
 1946 - Murray Head, British actor and singer
 1947 - John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
 1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German politician
1951  1975 
 1952 – Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
 1952 - Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, former Prime Minister of Angola
 1953 – Michael Sandel, American political philosopher
 1954 - Steve Prestwich, English-Australian musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
 1955 - Penn Jillette, American illusionist, comedian, musician and writer
 1956 - Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and writer
 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
 1957 - Mark E. Smith, English musician (d. 2018)
 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
 1959 - David Fury, American television and producer
 1962 – The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
 1963 - Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
 1963 - Joel Osteen, American televangelist 
 1964 - Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
 1966 - Oh Eun-Sun, South Korean mountaineer
 1968 – Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1968 – Theresa Villiers, British politician
 1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
 1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
 1972 - Brian Grant, American basketball player
 1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter
 1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
 1974 – Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
 1974 – Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
 1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
 1975 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d. 2009)
From 1976 
 1976 – Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
 1978 - Kimberly McCullough, American actress
 1978 - Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
 1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
 1982 – Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
 1982 - Nikki Walker, Scottish rugby union player
 1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
 1984 - Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (d. 2015)
 1985 - Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
 1985 – David Marshall, Scottish footballer
 1985 - Brad Mills, American baseball player
 1986 - Ellen Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
 1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
 1987 – Ishmael Miller, English footballer
 1988 - Bjarni Vidarsson, Icelandic footballer
 1989 - Kensuke Nagai, Japanese footballer
 1989 - Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
 1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
 1990 - Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
 1991 - Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper
1993 - Harry Maguire, English footballer
 1994 - Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
 1999 - Madison Beer, American singer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 254 - Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician (b. 1487)
 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
 1770 – Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
 1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
 1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
 1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b. 1734)
 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b. 1745)
 1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1901  2000 
 1925 – Jonas Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
 1926 - Clement Ader, French engineer (b. 1841)
 1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1854)
 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
 1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
 1950 - Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
 1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
 1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
 1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
 1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
 1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
 1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
 1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
 1967 - Georges Vanier, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
 1974 - Sol Hurok, American impresario (b. 1888)
 1976 - Otto Tief, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
 1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b. 1949)
 1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
 1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
 1984 - Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
 1984 - Tito Cobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
 1990 – Edmund Conen, German footballer (b. 1914)
 1990 – Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
 1995 – Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b. 1943)
 1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
 2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, singer and pornographic actress (b. 1963)
From 2001 
 2004 - Masanori Tokita, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
 2006 - Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b. 1956)
 2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b. 1923)
 2010 – Philip Langridge, English operatic tenor (b. 1939)
 2011 – Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (b. 1922)
 2012 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)
 2013 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
 2013 - Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
 2013 - Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b. 1947)
 2014 - Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
 2014 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b. 1931)
 2015 - Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
 2015 - Jim McCann, Irish musician (b. 1944)
 2015 - Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b. 1958)
 2016 - Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b. 1932)
 2016 - Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
2016 - Al Wistert, American football player (b. 1920)
 2016 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b. 1929)
 2016 - James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
 2017 - Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b. 1932)
 2017 - Douglas Henry, American politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b. 1913)
 2017 - Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b. 1945)
 2018 - Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b. 1937)
 2018 - John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
 2018 - Tomas Aguon Camacho, Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
 2018 - Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b. 1925)
 2018 - André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b. 1931)
 2018 - Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b. 1926)
 2018 - Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
 2018 - Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b. 1927)
 2018 - Stephan Tanneberger, German oncologist and chemist (b. 1935)
 2018 - Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
2019 - Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b. 1928)
 2019 - Jacques Loussier, French businessman (b. 1934)
Observances 
 Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
 Lei Feng Day (China)
 National Tree Planting Day (Iran)
 St. Piran's Day (Cornwall)

March 05
1963 (MCMLXIII) was .

Events 

 January 5 – The Beach Boys record one of their trademark songs, "Surfin' USA"
 February 11 – The Beatles record 10 songs for the album "Please Please Me"
 June 1 – Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first Prime Minister of Kenya
 July 15 – The Who drummer Doug Sandom is arrested on charges of homosexuality. 
 September 15 – "Birmingham Sunday" when a bomb killed 4 black girls in a church in Birmingham, Alabama
 September – The X-Men make their debut
 November 22 – John F. Kennedy assassinated, Lyndon Johnson sworn in as President
 November 23 – Doctor Who airs for the first time in the United Kingdom
 December 12 - Kenya is officially independent from the United Kingdom
 December 31 – The Central African Federation breaks apart. It eventually became Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia
 The cassette tape was invented

Births
January 2 - Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
 March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director (d. 2021)
 March 21 – Shawn Lane, American musician
 May 8 – Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
 May 8 - Anthony Field, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
 May 9 – Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, writer, Christian preacher
 May 11 – Natasha Richardson, actress (d. 2009)
 May 12 – Vanessa A. Williams, actress
 May 24 – Joe Dumars, basketball star
 May 25 – Mike Myers, actor, comedian
 May 30 - Tracey Childs, actress
 June 6 – Jason Isaacs, actor
 June 9 – Johnny Depp, actor
 June 13 – Bettina Bunge, tennis player.
 June 17 – Greg Kinnear, TV host and actor
 June 18 – Bruce Smith, American football player
 June 23 – Colin Montgomerie, golfer.
 June 25 – George Michael, singer
 June 27 – Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
 July 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor
 July 16 – Phoebe Cates, actress
 July 17 - Regina Belle, American singer
 July 24 – Karl Malone, basketball
July 30 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
 August 3 – James Hetfield, Metallica frontman and co-founder
 August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, computer cracker
 August 19 – Joey Tempest, Europe frontman
 August 19 – John Stamos, actor
 August 23 – Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
 August 24 – Hideo Kojima, video game director
 August 30 – Paul Oakenfold, DJ
 September 7 – Eazy-E, American rapper
 September 10 – Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
 September 21 – Cecil Fielder, baseball player
 September 29 – Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
 October 1 – Mark McGwire, baseball star
 October 4 – Mark Powley, English actor
 October 10 – Daniel Pearl, journalist (d. 2002)
 October 22 – Brian Boitano, figure skater
 October 26 – Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician
 October 31 – Fred McGriff, baseball player
 November 13 – Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
 November 18 – Dante Bichette, baseball player
 November 19 – Terry Farrell, actress
November 21 – Nicolette Sheridan, actress
 November 24 – Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist
 December 2 – John Kennedy Morrisey, entertainer/athlete/storyteller
 December 13 – Ilkka Remes, writer
 December 16 – Benjamin Bratt, actor
 December 18 – Brad Pitt, actor
 December 23 – Jim Harbaugh, American football player
Deaths

January 

 January 2 – Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
 January 2 – Al Mamaux, American baseball player (b. 1894)
 January 2 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
 January 5 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball manager (b. 1896)
 January 13 – Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo (b. 1902)
 January 18 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899)
 January 22 – Alf Henry Andresen, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1891)
 January 23 – Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909)
 January 29 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
 January 30 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)

February 

 February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (suicide) (b. 1932)
 February 28 – Rajendra Prasad, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
 February 28 – Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (b. 1891)
 February 28 – Alba Chrétien-Vaguet, French singer (b. 1872)

March
March 

 March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
 March 5 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
 March 11 – Alpha Brumage, American football player (b. 1880)
 March 18 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)

April 

 April 6 – Otto Struve, Russian-American astronomer (b. 1897)
 April 9 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz musician (b. 1891)
 April 23 – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (b. 1884)

May 
 May 12 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
 May 31 – Edith Hamilton, educator and writer (b. 1867)

June 

 June 3 – Pope John XXIII head of the Catholic Church (b. 1881)
 June 11 – Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (b. 1897)
 June 18 – Pedro Armendariz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)

July 
 July 1 – Ezzel Dine Zulficar, Egyptian film director (b. 1919)

August 
 August 5 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
 August 6 – Gottfried Klaus, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
 August 23 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist (b. 1906)
 August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
September 
 September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889)

October 

 October 11 – Édith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
 October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)

November 

 November 1 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
 November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish writer (b. 1902)
 November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
 November 22 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
 November 22 – J. D. Tippit, Police officer (b. 1924)
 November 22 – Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894)
 November 22 – C. S. Lewis, English novelist (b. 1898)
 November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1939)
 November 27 – Kikuji Ishimoto, Japanese architect (b. 1894)
 November 28 – Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar, Indian historian (b. 1895)

December
December 

 December 1 – Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, British-American spy (b. 1910)
 December 2 – Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875)
 December 5 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
 December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
 December 8 – Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
 December 12 – Theodor Heuss, President of Germany (b. 1884)
 December 14 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
 December 28 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physics – Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
 Chemistry – Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
 Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
 Literature – Giorgos Seferis
 Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
Up to 1900 
 1080 - King Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by King Canute IV of Denmark, who later became the first Dane to be canonized.
 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
 1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices.
 1521 – Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazano reaches New York harbor.
 1555 - After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine Imperial Army.
 1694 – Pope Patricus I is assassinated outside St Peter's Basilica.
 1797 - Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would become one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
 1797 - Citizens of Verona, Italy begin an eight-day rebellion against the French occupying forces which will end unsuccessfully.
 1861 – American Civil War: Virginia secedes from the Union.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Plymouth begins – Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
 1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
 1882 – Copies of Pat Garrett's biography of Billy the Kid, An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, arrive at the Library of Congress.
 1895 – The Treaty of Maguan (also known as the "Treaty of Shimonoseki") between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
1901  2000 
 1907 - The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than any other day.
 1912 - Russian troops shoot striking goldfield workers in Northeastern Siberia, killing at least 50.
 1924 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
 1937 – Daffy Duck first appears in Warner Bros' short Porky's Duck Hunt.
 1941 – World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
 1942 – POW French General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.
 1945 – In Strassfurt, Germany, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of uranium, in an attempt to foil Soviet Union plans to build an atomic bomb.
 1946 – Syria gains full independence from France.
 1951 - The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first national park.
 1958 - Brussels holds its first International Exposition since World War II. The Atomium, built for the exposition, becomes a symbol of the city.
1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of CIA-financed and -trained Cuban refugees lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
 1964 – The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
 1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
 1969 - British passenger steamer "Sir Harvey Adamson" disappears without a trace after leaving Rangoon, Burma, with 269 people on board.
 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
 1969 – Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
 1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
 1971 - The People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
 1975 – Cambodian Civil War ends: The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by automatic gunfire coming from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. She had been policing a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten other people are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
 1991 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever (3,004.46).
From 2001 
 2002 – Four Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire from two U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for Canada since the Korean War.
 2004 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero becomes Prime Minister of Spain.
 2013 - The Parliament of New Zealand votes by a majority to legalize same-sex marriage in the country, making it the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
 2013 - The funeral of Margaret Thatcher takes place in London. See Death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher.
 2013 - West Fertilizer Plant explosion: An explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas kills 15 people and injures over 160.
 2014 - NASA's Kepler telescope confirms the discovery of the planet Kepler-186f in the habitable zone of another solar system.
 2019 - Indonesia holds presidential and parliamentary elections.
 2019 - Former President of Peru Alan García commits suicide by gunshot while police prepare to arrest him over corruption allegations.
Up to 1900 
 1278 – Michael IX Palaiologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor (d. 1320)
 1573 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist (d. 1639)
 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
 1620 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, French saint (d. 1700)
 1622 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (d. 1695)
 1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
 1699 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (d. 1746)
 1734 – Taksin, King of Siam (d. 1782)
 1741 - Samuel Chase, American founding father (d. 1811)
 1750 – Francois de Neufchateau, French statesman (d. 1828)
 1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Tamil revolutionary (d. 1805)
 1766 - Colin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant and politician (d. 1861)
 1770 - Mahlon Dickerson, American politician (d. 1853)
 1795 - George Edmund Badger, United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1866)
 1799 - Edward Williams Clay, American artist (d. 1857)
 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American, figure in the history of baseball (d. 1892)
1824 - John Basson Humffray, Welsh-Australian politician (d. 1891)
 1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1900)
 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
 1842 - Maurice Rouvier, 53rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1911)
 1849 - William R. Day, 36th United States Secretary of State (d. 1923)
 1852 - Cap Anson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1922)
 1863 - Augustus Edward Hough Love, English mathematician (d. 1940)
 1865 - Ursula Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian nun and saint (d. 1939)
 1866 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (d. 1927)
 1877 - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
 1879 - Henri Tauzin, French athlete (d. 1918)
 1882 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (d. 1951)
 1885 – Karen Blixen, Danish writer (d. 1962)
 1888 – Jan Vos, Dutch footballer (d. 1939)
 1891 - George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and writer (d. 1965)
 1894 – Nikita Krushchev, Soviet political leader (d. 1971)
1895 - Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American writer and playwright (d. 1975)
 1897 - Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (d. 1983)
 1899 - Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958)
1901  1950 
 1903 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Ukrainian-born cellist (d. 1976)
 1903 - Nicolas Nabokov, Russian-American composer and educator (d. 1978)
 1903 - Morgan Taylor, American hurdler (d. 1975)
 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996)
 1910 – Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (d. 1997)
 1910 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
 1911 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (d. 1996) 
 1911 - George Seaton, American director and producer (d. 1979)
 1912 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian actress and singer (d. 2013)
 1914 - Dovey Johnson Roundtree, American civil rights activist and attorney (d. 2018)
 1915 - Joe Foss, American politician, 20th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2003)
 1916 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2000)
 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2011)
 1918 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
 1918 - Carol Rama, Italian painter (d. 2015)
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
 1920 - Edmonde Charles-Roux, French writer (d. 2016)
 1923 – Gianni Raimondi, Italian tenor (d. 2008)
 1923 - Lindsay Anderson, British director
 1923 - Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (d. 2014)
 1924 - Donald Richie, American-Japanese writer and critic (d. 2013)
 1925 - René Moawad, 13th President of Lebanon (d. 1989)
 1926 - Joan Lorring, American actress and singer (d. 2014) 
 1927 - Margot Honecker, German politician (d. 2016)
 1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American writer
 1929 – James Last, German musician (d. 2015)
 1931 - John Barrett, English tennis player
 1931 - Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer (d. 2012)
 1931 - Howard Honig, American actor
 1933 – Joachim Kroll, German serial killer (d. 1991)
 1934 – Don Kirshner, American composer (d. 2011)
 1934 - Peter Morris, Australian-English surgeon
 1935 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek movie director and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1940 – Billy Fury, British singer (d. 1983)
 1940 - Chuck Menville, American animator and screenwriter (d. 1992)
 1942 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician
 1943 - Roy Estrada, American musician
 1946 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist (d. 1995)
 1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer-songwriter
 1948 - Jan Hammer, Czech composer, pianist and keyboardist
 1948 - Pekka Vasala, Finnish middle-distance runner
 1948 - John N. Gray, English philosopher
1951  1975 
 1951 – Horst Hrubesch, German footballer
 1951 – Olivia Hussey, Argentine-British actress
 1954 – Riccardo Patrese, Italian racing driver
 1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician
 1955 - Mike Stroud, English physician and explorer
 1957 – Nick Hornby, British writer
 1959 – Sean Bean, British actor
 1959 - Li Meisu, Chinese shot putter
 1959 - Peter Doig, Scottish painter
 1960 - Vladimir Polyakov, Russian pole vaulter
 1961 - Bella Freud, English fashion designer
 1963 – Joel Murray, American actor
 1963 - Penny Villagos, Canadian swimmer
 1963 - Vicky Villagos, Canadian swimmer
 1964 – Maynard James Keenan, American singer, musician and actor
 1964 - Ken Daneyko, Canadian ice hockey player
 1964 - Lela Rochon, American actress
 1966 - Vikram, Indian actor, singer and producer
 1967 – Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian-born actor
 1967 - Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic politician
 1970 - Redman, American rapper, producer and actor
 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 – Claire Sweeney, British actress and television personality
 1972 – Jennifer Garner, American actress
 1974 – Victoria Beckham, English singer
 1974 - Mikael Akerfeldt, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1975 – Stefano Fiore, Italian footballer
From 1976 
 1977 – Chad Hedrick, American speed skater
 1977 - Frederik Magle, Danish composer and pianist
 1978 - David Murdoch, Scottish curler
 1978 – Jason White, Scottish rugby player
 1978 - Jordan Hill, American singer
 1979 - Siddharth, Indian actor, singer and producer
 1980 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
 1981 - Michael Mifsud, Maltese footballer
 1981 - Jenny Meadows, English middle-distance runner
 1981 - Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer
 1981 - Myuran Sukumaran, Australian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
 1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
 1983 – Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
 1984 - Rosanna Davison, Irish model and actress
 1985 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
 1985 - Rooney Mara, American actress
 1985 - Luke Mitchell, Australian actor
 1985 - Takuya Honda, Japanese footballer
 1986 – Romain Grosjean, Swiss-French racing driver
 1987 - Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete
 1987 - Jacqueline McInnes Wood, Canadian actress and singer
1988 - Takahiro Morita, Japanese singer
 1990 - Gia Mantegna, American actress
 1991 - Tessa James, Australian actress
 1992 - Shkodran Mustafi, German footballer
 1996 – Dee Dee Davis, American actress
Up to 1900 
 326 – Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
 485 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (b. 412)
 1080 – King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
 1427 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
 1539 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
 1574 - Joachim Camerarius, German scholar (b. 1500)
 1669 - Antonio Bertali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1605)
 1680 - Kateri Jekakwitha, American saint (b. 1656)
 1711 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
 1742 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
 1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American politician, scientist and writer (b. 1706)
 1799 - Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
 1843 – Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
 1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (b. 1777)
 1873 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
 1882 - George Jennings, English engineer and plumber (b. 1810)
 1888 - E. G. Squier, American archaeologist and journalist (b. 1821)
1901  2000 
 1902 – Francis of Spain, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
 1921 - Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, writer and philosopher (b. 1860)
 1930 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
 1933 - Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
 1936 – Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
 1937 - Yi Sang, Korean poet (b. 1910)
 1941 - Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1899)
 1942 – Jean Perrin, French physicist (b. 1870)
 1960 – Eddie Cochran, American musician (b. 1938)
 1975 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and President of India (b. 1888)
 1976 – Henrik Dam, Danish chemist, won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
 1977 - William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
 1979 - Yukio Tsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
 1983 - Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player and producer (b. 1939)
 1984 - Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
1984 – Yvonne Fletcher, British police officer (b. 1958)
 1985 - Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
 1990 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (b. 1926)
 1990 – Angelo Schiavio, Italian footballer (b. 1905)
 1993 – Turgut Ozal, 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
 1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913)
 1996 – Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905)
 1997 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (b. 1918)
 1998 – Linda McCartney, American designer and photographer (b. 1941)
From 2001 
 2003 – Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930)
 2003 – John Paul Getty, Jr., American-born millionnaire (b. 1932)
 2003 - Koji Kondo, Japanese footballer (b. 1972)
 2004 – Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, Hamas leader (b. 1947)
 2005 – Konrad Spindler, German scientist (b. 1939)
 2007 – Kitty Carlisle, American singer and actress (b. 1910)
 2008 – Aimé Césaire, French-Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
 2008 – Danny Federici, American musician (b. 1950)
 2011 – Bhawani Singh, Indian nobleman (b. 1931)
 2014 - Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician (b. 1940)
 2014 - Cheo Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
 2014 - Henry Maksoud, Brazilian businessman (b. 1929)
 2014 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1927)
 2015 - Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
 2015 - Robert P. Griffin, American politician, United States Senator (b. 1923)
 2015 - Mariano Gago, Portuguese engineer and politician (b. 1948)