March 5

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1046 &ndash; Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book *Safarnameh*.
* 1279 &ndash; The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
* 1496 &ndash; England King Henry VII issued letters patern to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
* 1616 &ndash; Nicolaus Copernicus' book *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium* is banned by the Roman Catholic Church.
* 1689 &ndash; Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
* 1766 &ndash; Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
* 1770 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
* 1793 &ndash; French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
* 1811 &ndash; 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 &ndash; James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
* 1824 &ndash; First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.
* 1836 &ndash; Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
* 1842 &ndash; Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
* 1848 &ndash; Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
* 1849 &ndash; Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.
* 1850 &ndash; The Britannia Bridge, a railway bridge, linking the Isle of Anglesey to mainland Wales across the Menai Strait, opens.
* 1860 &ndash; Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
* 1861 &ndash; The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
* 1861 &ndash; Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
* 1868 &ndash; A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
* 1868 &ndash; *Mefistofele*, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
* 1872 &ndash; George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
* 1877 &ndash; Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).
* 1878 &ndash; Manchester United Football Club is founded under the name of *Newton Heath LYR FC*.
* 1888 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.

### 1901 - 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Nikola Tesla, in *Electrical World and Engineer*, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
* 1905 &ndash; Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
* 1907 &ndash; The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
* 1912 &ndash; Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
* 1915 &ndash; World War I: *LZ 33*, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
* 1916 &ndash; Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
* 1916 &ndash; Off Santos, Brazil, Spanish luxury liner *Principe de Asturias* hits a rock and sinks within five minutes, killing 445 people.
* 1917 &ndash; Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
* 1918 &ndash; Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
* 1919 &ndash; The main railway station in Helsinki opens.
* 1924 &ndash; Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.
* 1929 &ndash; LanChile airline begins operations.
* 1931 &ndash; Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
* 1933 &ndash; Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
* 1933 &ndash; In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
* 1936 &ndash; First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
* 1940 &ndash; 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 &ndash; First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
* 1946 &ndash; Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
* 1946 &ndash; The Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the left bloc.
* 1948 &ndash; US rocket flies a record 4800&nbsp;km/h to 126&nbsp;km height.
* 1949 &ndash; The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.

### 1951 - 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; Both Josef Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev die in Soviet Union.
* 1955 &ndash; President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.
* 1956 &ndash; Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.
* 1956 &ndash; "King Kong" first televised.
* 1958 &ndash; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
* 1958 &ndash; Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
* 1960 &ndash; Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico" photograph of Che Guevara.
* 1960 &ndash; Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in the United States Army.
* 1963 &ndash; Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
* 1964 &ndash; Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
* 1964 &ndash; Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
* 1965 &ndash; First performance of Walter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
* 1966 &ndash; A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan killing 124
* 1966 &ndash; In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
* 1966 &ndash; Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
* 1968 &ndash; US launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
* 1970 &ndash; A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
* 1970 &ndash; Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
* 1971 &ndash; First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
* 1973 &ndash; Two Spanish aircraft collide in mid-air over France, killing 68 people.
* 1973 &ndash; Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
* 1974 &ndash; Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
* 1974 &ndash; "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, opens at Broadway Theatre in NYC for 740 performances.
* 1976 &ndash; British pound falls below $2 US for the first time.
* 1978 &ndash; Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
* 1979 &ndash; Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
* 1979 &ndash; Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172000 miles.
* 1980 &ndash; Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
* 1981 &ndash; Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
* 1982 &ndash; SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
* 1982 &ndash; Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
* 1983 &ndash; Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
* 1983 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
* 1985 &ndash; The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.
* 1988 &ndash; Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
* 1991 &ndash; Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
* 1993 &ndash; Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
* 1998 &ndash; NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
* 1998 &ndash; NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
* 1999 &ndash; Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
* 2001 &ndash; In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
* 2002 &ndash; MTV begins airing *The Osbournes*.
* 2003 &ndash; University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
* 2003 &ndash; 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 &ndash; *Nature* withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.
* 2006 &ndash; The BBC's major nature documentary series "Planet Earth" is broadcast for the first time.
* 2013 &ndash; President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez dies, after a Presidency of over 14 years, of complications from cancer.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1133 &ndash; King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
* 1324 &ndash; King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
* 1326 &ndash; King Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
* 1512 &ndash; Gerardus Mercator, Flemish map maker (d. 1594)
* 1563 &ndash; John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
* 1575 &ndash; William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
* 1585 &ndash; John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
* 1658 &ndash; Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
* 1685 &ndash; George Frideric Handel, German composer (d. 1759)
* 1693 &ndash; Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
* 1696 &ndash; Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
* 1703 &ndash; Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
* 1713 &ndash; Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
* 1713 &ndash; Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
* 1723 &ndash; Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
* 1739 &ndash; Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physician and statesman (d. 1819)
* 1756 &ndash; Nathaniel Alexander, 13th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1808)
* 1794 &ndash; Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1815 &ndash; John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
* 1832 &ndash; Isaac Israel Hayes, American physician and polar explorer (d. 1881)
* 1836 &ndash; Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
* 1853 &ndash; Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d. 1911)
* 1855 &ndash; Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d. 1857)
* 1858 &ndash; José Relvas, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929)
* 1862 &ndash; Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
* 1867 &ndash; Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
* 1869 &ndash; Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
* 1870 &ndash; Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
* 1871 &ndash; Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
* 1873 &ndash; Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
* 1874 &ndash; Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
* 1879 &ndash; William Henry Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
* 1882 &ndash; Arthur Hussey, American golfer (d. 1915)
* 1886 &ndash; Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d. 1975)
* 1887 &ndash; Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
* 1888 &ndash; Jeff Tesreau, American baseball player (d. 1946)
* 1890 &ndash; Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d. 1961)
* 1893 &ndash; Konstantin Muraviev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1973)
* 1897 &ndash; Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (d. 1960)
* 1898 &ndash; Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living person (d. 2015)
* 1898 &ndash; Soong May-ling, First Lady of the Republic of China (d. 2003)
* 1898 &ndash; Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d. 1976)
* 1900 &ndash; Anna Henderson, American supercentenarian (d. 2014)

### 1901 - 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Louis Kahn, Estonian-American architect (d. 1974)
* 1904 &ndash; Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
* 1908 &ndash; Rex Harrison, British actor (d. 1990)
* 1908 &ndash; Irving Fiske, American writer and playwright (d. 1990)
* 1910 &ndash; Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
* 1910 &ndash; Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter (d. 1972)
* 1912 &ndash; Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
* 1914 &ndash; Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
* 1915 &ndash; Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
* 1915 &ndash; Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
* 1918 &ndash; Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
* 1918 &ndash; James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
* 1920 &ndash; José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009) 
* 1922 &ndash; Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d. 1975)
* 1923 &ndash; Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
* 1924 &ndash; Jacques Vergès, French lawyer (d. 2013)
* 1927 &ndash; Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
* 1929 &ndash; Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d. 2015)
* 1929 &ndash; J. B. Lenoir, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
* 1930 &ndash; John Ashley, NHL referee (d. 2008)
* 1930 &ndash; Del Crandall, American baseball player
* 1931 &ndash; Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d. 2019)
* 1933 &ndash; Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; Walter Kasper, German cardinal
* 1933 &ndash; Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess player (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1982)
* 1934 &ndash; Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist
* 1934 &ndash; James B. Sikking, American actor
* 1935 &ndash; Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist
* 1936 &ndash; Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
* 1937 &ndash; Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time former President of Nigeria
* 1938 &ndash; Lynn Margulis, American evolutionary biologist (d. 2011)
* 1938 &ndash; Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
* 1940 &ndash; Josef Piontek, German footballer
* 1940 &ndash; John W. Carlin, 40th Governor of Kansas
* 1942 &ndash; Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
* 1942 &ndash; Mike Resnick, American science fiction writer
* 1943 &ndash; Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
* 1943 &ndash; Christian Führer, German pastor and activist (d. 2014) 
* 1944 &ndash; Roy Gutman, American journalist
* 1946 &ndash; Murray Head, British actor and singer
* 1947 &ndash; John Kitzhaber, former Governor of Oregon
* 1948 &ndash; Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
* 1948 &ndash; Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
* 1948 &ndash; Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
* 1948 &ndash; Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
* 1949 &ndash; Franz Josef Jung, German politician

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
* 1952 &ndash; Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, former Prime Minister of Angola
* 1953 &ndash; Michael Sandel, American political philosopher
* 1954 &ndash; Steve Prestwich, English-Australian musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
* 1955 &ndash; Penn Jillette, American illusionist, comedian, musician and writer
* 1956 &ndash; Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and writer
* 1956 &ndash; Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1957 &ndash; Mark E. Smith, English musician (d. 2018)
* 1958 &ndash; Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
* 1959 &ndash; Vazgen Sargsyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
* 1959 &ndash; David Fury, American television and producer
* 1962 &ndash; The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
* 1963 &ndash; Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
* 1963 &ndash; Joel Osteen, American televangelist 
* 1964 &ndash; Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
* 1966 &ndash; Oh Eun-Sun, South Korean mountaineer
* 1968 &ndash; Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
* 1968 &ndash; Theresa Villiers, British politician
* 1970 &ndash; John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
* 1970 &ndash; Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
* 1972 &ndash; Brian Grant, American basketball player
* 1972 &ndash; Luca Turilli, Italian guitarist and songwriter
* 1973 &ndash; Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
* 1974 &ndash; Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
* 1974 &ndash; Jens Jeremies, German footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Eva Mendes, American actress
* 1975 &ndash; Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d. 2009)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
* 1977 &ndash; Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
* 1978 &ndash; Kimberly McCullough, American actress
* 1978 &ndash; Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
* 1982 &ndash; Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
* 1982 &ndash; Nikki Walker, Scottish rugby union player
* 1982 &ndash; Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
* 1984 &ndash; Aarthi Agarwal, Indian actress (d. 2015)
* 1985 &ndash; Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
* 1985 &ndash; David Marshall, Scottish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Brad Mills, American baseball player
* 1986 &ndash; Ellen Whitaker, British equestrian showjumper
* 1987 &ndash; Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
* 1987 &ndash; Ishmael Miller, English footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Bjarni Vidarsson, Icelandic footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Kensuke Nagai, Japanese footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
* 1989 &ndash; Jake Lloyd, American actor
* 1990 &ndash; Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper 
* 1993 &ndash; Harry Maguire, English footballer
* 1994 &ndash; Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
* 1999 &ndash; Madison Beer, American singer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 254 &ndash; Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
* 1534 &ndash; Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
* 1539 &ndash; Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician (b. 1487)
* 1592 &ndash; Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
* 1611 &ndash; Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
* 1622 &ndash; Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
* 1695 &ndash; Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
* 1770 &ndash; Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
* 1776 &ndash; Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
* 1778 &ndash; Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
* 1815 &ndash; Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b. 1734)
* 1827 &ndash; Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
* 1827 &ndash; Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b. 1745)
* 1895 &ndash; Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1925 &ndash; Jonas Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
* 1926 &ndash; Clement Ader, French engineer (b. 1841)
* 1929 &ndash; David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American engineer, inventor and industrialist (b. 1854)
* 1940 &ndash; Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
* 1944 &ndash; Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
* 1947 &ndash; Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
* 1950 &ndash; Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist (b. 1868)
* 1953 &ndash; Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
* 1953 &ndash; Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b. 1891)
* 1953 &ndash; Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
* 1955 &ndash; Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b. 1888)
* 1963 &ndash; Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
* 1963 &ndash; Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
* 1963 &ndash; Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
* 1965 &ndash; Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
* 1965 &ndash; Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
* 1966 &ndash; Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
* 1967 &ndash; Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b. 1882)
* 1967 &ndash; Georges Vanier, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
* 1974 &ndash; Sol Hurok, American impresario (b. 1888)
* 1976 &ndash; Otto Tief, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
* 1977 &ndash; Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b. 1949)
* 1980 &ndash; Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
* 1980 &ndash; Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
* 1982 &ndash; John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
* 1984 &ndash; Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
* 1984 &ndash; Tito Cobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
* 1990 &ndash; Edmund Conen, German footballer (b. 1914)
* 1990 &ndash; Gary Merrill, American actor (b. 1915)
* 1995 &ndash; Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b. 1943)
* 1999 &ndash; Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
* 2000 &ndash; Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, singer and pornographic actress (b. 1963)

### From 2001 
* 2004 &ndash; Masanori Tokita, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
* 2006 &ndash; Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b. 1956)
* 2008 &ndash; Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b. 1923)
* 2010 &ndash; Philip Langridge, English operatic tenor (b. 1939)
* 2011 &ndash; Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (b. 1922)
* 2012 &ndash; Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
* 2013 &ndash; Paul Bearer, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
* 2013 &ndash; Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
* 2014 &ndash; Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
* 2015 &ndash; Jim McCann, Irish musician (b. 1944)
* 2015 &ndash; Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b. 1958)
* 2016 &ndash; Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b. 1932)
* 2016 &ndash; Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Al Wistert, American football player (b. 1920)
* 2016 &ndash; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; James Douglas, American actor (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Douglas Henry, American politician (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b. 1913)
* 2017 &ndash; Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b. 1945)
* 2018 &ndash; Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b. 1937)
* 2018 &ndash; John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Tomas Aguon Camacho, Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b. 1925)
* 2018 &ndash; André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b. 1931)
* 2018 &ndash; Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b. 1926)
* 2018 &ndash; Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
* 2018 &ndash; Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Stephan Tanneberger, German oncologist and chemist (b. 1935)
* 2018 &ndash; Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; 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)