May 11

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 330 &ndash; Byzantium is renamed *Nova Roma* during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople.
* 868 &ndash; A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest–known dated printed book.
* 1502 &ndash; Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the West Indies.
* 1647 &ndash; Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director–General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present–day New York City.
* 1672 &ndash; Franco–Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.
* 1745 &ndash; War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo–Dutch–Hanoverian army.
* 1792 &ndash; Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented Caucasian to visit the Columbia River.
* 1812 &ndash; British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot and killed by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
* 1813 &ndash; In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory B. Laxland and William Wentworth lead an expedition westward from Sydney.
* 1818 &ndash; Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
* 1820 &ndash; The HMS Beagle has its official launch. Later, one of its most famous passengers would be Charles Darwin.
* 1846 &ndash; President of the United States James K. Polk asks for a declaration of war against Mexico, starting the Mexican-American War.
* 1857 &ndash; Indian Mutiny: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
* 1858 &ndash; Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: The ironclad CSS *Virginia* is scuttled in the James River northwest of Norfolk, Virginia.
* 1864 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Yellow Tavern – Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
* 1867 &ndash; Luxembourg gains its independence.
* 1880 &ndash; Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough tragedy, a gun battle in California.
* 1892 &ndash; Johan Petter Johansson of Sweden is granted a patent for the Monkey wrench.
* 1894 &ndash; Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike in Illinois.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1907 &ndash; 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in California.
* 1910 &ndash; An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
* 1911 &ndash; The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
* 1918 &ndash; The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is created.
* 1927 &ndash; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
* 1928 &ndash; The first analog TV service is inaugurated by WGY, Schenectady, New York.
* 1934 &ndash; Dust Bowl: A strong two–day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl in North America.
* 1942 &ndash; William Faulkner's collections of short stories, *Go Down, Moses*, is published.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: The Allies start a major offensive against the Axis Powers on the Gustav Line.
* 1949 &ndash; Siam changes its name to Thailand.
* 1949 &ndash; Israel joins the United Nations.
* 1953 &ndash; The Waco Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Waco, Texas, killing 114.
* 1960 &ndash; In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name Ricardo Klement.
* 1960 &ndash; The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
* 1967 &ndash; Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and socialist, is imprisoned in Athens by the Greek military junta.
* 1969 &ndash; Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the Laos border, American and South Vietnamese forces fight North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (aka Hill 937 or "Hamburger Hill").
* 1970 &ndash; Henry "Dickie" Marrow" is murdered in a violent racially–motivated crime in Oxford, N.C..
* 1970 &ndash; The Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.
* 1973 &ndash; Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the *New York Times* dismissed.
* 1974 &ndash; An earthquake in Sichuan and Yunnan in China kills 20,000 people.
* 1976 &ndash; The last episode of the TV medical drama *Marcus Welby, M.D. *is aired.
* 1983 &ndash; Aberdeen F.C. defeats Real Madrid 2–1 to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
* 1984 &ndash; A transit of Earth from Mars takes place; no one is there to observe it.
* 1985 &ndash; 56 spectators die when a flash fire strikes a football ground during a match in Bradford, England.
* 1987 &ndash; Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
* 1987 &ndash; The first heart–lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland).
* 1995 &ndash; In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
* 1996 &ndash; On what was until that point the deadliest day on Mt. Everest, 8 climbers are killed in a snowstorm.
* 1996 &ndash; After taking–off from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta–bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
* 1997 &ndash; IBM's Deep Blue chess–playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world–champion chess player.
* 1998 &ndash; Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons).
* 1998 &ndash; ZDTV, "the official technology television network", starts broadcasting. It lasted six years until the G4techTV Merger and it turned into a gaming channel.
* 2000 &ndash; India announces that it's reached the population of 1 billion.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 19th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.
* 2004 &ndash; The Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow kills nine people.
* 2005 &ndash; The eleventh edition of the International Trade Fair KOSOVA opens in Gjakova, Kosovo.
* 2010 &ndash; David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* 2011 &ndash; Two earthquakes in southern Spain kill at least 10 people.
* 2013 &ndash; Over 40 people are killed in a bomb attack in Turkey's Hatay province, near the Syrian border.
* 2013 &ndash; A parliamentary election is held in Pakistan, with a record voter turnout. This leads to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returning as Prime Minister on June 5.
* 2013 &ndash; Wigan Athletic F.C. wins its first FA Cup after a surprise win over Manchester City in the final, as the first surprise result in the final for a number of years.
* 2015 &ndash; Pablo Picasso's *Women of Algiers* becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, being bought for US$179.3 million.
* 2016 &ndash; Italy legalizes same-sex civil partnerships.
* 2016 &ndash; A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad kills around 90 people.
* 2016 &ndash; President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff is impeached.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 478 &ndash; Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 565)
* 1366 &ndash; Anne of Bohemia, Queen Consort of Richard II of England (d. 1394)
* 1568 &ndash; Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (d. 1630)
* 1571 &ndash; Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer (d. 1637)
* 1715 &ndash; Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1739)
* 1720 &ndash; Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, officer and adventurer (d. 1797)
* 1722 &ndash; Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
* 1733 &ndash; Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
* 1752 &ndash; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
* 1763 &ndash; János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
* 1801 &ndash; Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
* 1811 &ndash; Chang and Eng Bunker, famous Siamese twins (d. 1874)
* 1811 &ndash; Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1951)
* 1815 &ndash; Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, British statesman (d. 1891)
* 1817 &ndash; Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
* 1827 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
* 1835 &ndash; Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer and poet (d. 1905)
* 1852 &ndash; Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th Vice President of the United States (d. 1918)
* 1854 &ndash; Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
* 1855 &ndash; Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (d. 1914)
* 1862 &ndash; Franklin S. Billings, Governor of Vermont (d. 1935)
* 1871 &ndash; Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
* 1874 &ndash; Einar Jonsson, Icelandic sculptor (d. 1954)
* 1875 &ndash; Harriet Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912)
* 1881 &ndash; Al Cabrera, Spanish–born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
* 1881 &ndash; Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
* 1885 &ndash; Joe "King" Oliver, American cornet player and bandleader (d. 1938)
* 1887 &ndash; Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian–born pianist (d. 1961)
* 1888 &ndash; Irving Berlin, Russian–American composer (d. 1989)
* 1890 &ndash; Woodall Rodgers, American attorney, businessman and politician (d. 1961)
* 1891 &ndash; Henry Morgenthau, American politician (d. 1967)
* 1892 &ndash; Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
* 1894 &ndash; Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
* 1895 &ndash; Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
* 1896 &ndash; Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
* 1897 &ndash; Kurt Gerron German movie director (d. 1944)
* 1897 &ndash; George Murdock, American anthropologist (d. 1985)
* 1899 &ndash; Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
* 1900 &ndash; Pridi Phanomyong, Prime Minister of Siam (d. 1983)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Charlie Gehringer, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
* 1904 &ndash; Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
* 1907 &ndash; Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
* 1907 &ndash; Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
* 1911 &ndash; Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
* 1912 &ndash; Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani short story writer of the Urdu language (d. 1955)
* 1912 &ndash; Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
* 1913 &ndash; Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
* 1914 &ndash; Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998)
* 1916 &ndash; Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer (d. 2002)
* 1918 &ndash; Richard Feynman, American physicist (d. 1988)
* 1921 &ndash; Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
* 1924 &ndash; Antony Hewish, British radio astronomer
* 1924 &ndash; Eugene Dynkin, Russian–born American mathematician (d. 2014)
* 1924 &ndash; Jackie Milburn, English footballer (d. 1988)
* 1925 &ndash; Max Morlock, German footballer (d. 1994)
* 1925 &ndash; Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
* 1927 &ndash; Bernard Fox, Welsh–American actor (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Gene Savoy, American explorer, writer and scholar (d. 2007)
* 1928 &ndash; Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
* 1930 &ndash; Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
* 1930 &ndash; William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (d. 2012)
* 1932 &ndash; Mustafa Tlass, Syrian military officer and politician (d. 2017)
* 1932 &ndash; John Vasconcellos, American politician (d. 2014)
* 1932 &ndash; Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
* 1933 &ndash; Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
* 1934 &ndash; Jim Jeffords, American politician, United States Senator from Vermont (d. 2014)
* 1935 &ndash; Dick Leitsch, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018)
* 1936 &ndash; Tony Barrow, British press officer (d. 2016)
* 1936 &ndash; Carla Bley, American musician and composer
* 1939 &ndash; Frank Quilici, American baseball player (d. 2018)
* 1940 &ndash; Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
* 1941 &ndash; Graham Miles, English snooker player
* 1941 &ndash; Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer
* 1943 &ndash; Les Chadwick, English musician (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
* 1945 &ndash; Floyd Adams, Jr., American politician (d. 2014)
* 1946 &ndash; Robert Jarvik, American physicist and inventor
* 1947 &ndash; Butch Trucks, American musician
* 1948 &ndash; Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
* 1950 &ndash; Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and writer
* 1950 &ndash; John F. Kelly, 28th White House Chief of Staff
* 1950 &ndash; Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Ed Stelmach, Canadian politician, former Premier of Alberta
* 1951 &ndash; Johnny Doyle, Scottish footballer (d. 1981)
* 1952 &ndash; Renaud Séchan, French composer
* 1952 &ndash; Mike Lupica, sports journalist
* 1952 &ndash; Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
* 1952 &ndash; Frances Fisher, British–American actress
* 1953 &ndash; Boyd Gaines, actor
* 1953 &ndash; David Gest, American television producer (d. 2016)
* 1956 &ndash; Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
* 1956 &ndash; Alex Lester, British broadcaster
* 1957 &ndash; Peter North, Canadian pornographic actor, director, producer and dancer
* 1958 &ndash; Peter Antonie, Australian rower
* 1959 &ndash; Silvio Barbato, Italian–Brazilian opera conductor and composer (d. 2009)
* 1959 &ndash; Martha Quinn, American television personality
* 1960 &ndash; Jürgen Schult, German athlete 
* 1963 &ndash; Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
* 1963 &ndash; Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
* 1963 &ndash; Natasha Richardson, English actress (d. 2009)
* 1964 &ndash; John Parrott, English snooker player
* 1965 &ndash; Stefano Domenicali, Italian Formula One team principal
* 1966 &ndash; Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
* 1966 &ndash; Nancy Hower, American actress, sceenwriter, director, and producer
* 1968 &ndash; Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
* 1968 &ndash; Ana Jara, Peruvian lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Peru
* 1973 &ndash; James Haven, American actor
* 1973 &ndash; Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese marathon runner
* 1974 &ndash; DJ Zany, Dutch DJ
* 1975 &ndash; Coby Bell, American actor and producer

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
* 1977 &ndash; Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
* 1978 &ndash; Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
* 1978 &ndash; Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
* 1979 &ndash; Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Tim Baillie, Scottish slalom canoeist
* 1980 &ndash; Björgólfur Hideaki Takefusa, Icelandic footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Ernest Vardanean, Armenian–Moldovan political scientist and journalist
* 1981 &ndash; Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
* 1982 &ndash; Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (d. 2013)
* 1982 &ndash; Jonathan Jackson, actor
* 1983 &ndash; Matt Leinart, American football player
* 1983 &ndash; Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
* 1983 &ndash; Steven Sotloff, American journalist (d. 2014)
* 1984 &ndash; Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Arttu Lappi, Finnish ski jumper
* 1986 &ndash; Abou Diaby, French footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Ace Hood, American rapper
* 1988 &ndash; Marcel Kittel, German cyclist
* 1988 &ndash; Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1988 &ndash; Severin Freund, German ski jumper
* 1989 &ndash; Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
* 1989 &ndash; Cam Newton, American football player
* 1991 &ndash; Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh, Iranian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter
* 1993 &ndash; Maurice Harkless, American basketball player
* 1994 &ndash; Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian long–distance runner
* 1995 &ndash; Yassi Pressman, Filipina actress and dancer
* 1999 &ndash; Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
* 1999 &ndash; Madison Lintz, American actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1975 
* 912 &ndash; Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
* 1304 &ndash; Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
* 1610 &ndash; Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (b. 1552)
* 1642 &ndash; Safi of Persia (b. 1611)
* 1686 &ndash; Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
* 1760 &ndash; Alaungpaya, Burmese ruler (b. 1714)
* 1778 &ndash; William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1708)
* 1812 &ndash; Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762).
* 1848 &ndash; Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
* 1849 &ndash; Otto Nicolai, German composer (b. 1810)
* 1871 &ndash; John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
* 1883 &ndash; Julie Drouet, French actress (b. 1806)
* 1887 &ndash; Ion Keith-Falconer, Scottish missionary (b. 1856)
* 1889 &ndash; John Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1801)
* 1891 &ndash; A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
* 1915 &ndash; Arthur Hussey, American golfer (b. 1882)
* 1916 &ndash; Max Reger, German pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1873)
* 1916 &ndash; Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
* 1927 &ndash; Juan Gris, Spanish Cubist painter (b. 1887)
* 1929 &ndash; Jozef Murgas, Slovakian inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot and priest (b. 1864)
* 1934 &ndash; Blaise Diagne, Senegalese politician (b. 1872)
* 1937 &ndash; Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1871)
* 1952 &ndash; Alessio Ascalesi, Italian cardinal (b. 1872)
* 1955 &ndash; Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
* 1956 &ndash; Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer (b. 1876)
* 1960 &ndash; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
* 1962 &ndash; Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany in the Weimar Republic (b. 1879)
* 1963 &ndash; Herbert Gasser, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
* 1966 &ndash; Henry S. Caulfield, 31st Governor of Missouri (b. 1873)
* 1971 &ndash; Seán Lamass, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1902)
* 1973 &ndash; Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)

### 1976 &ndash; 2010 
* 1976 &ndash; Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
* 1981 &ndash; Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (b. 1897)
* 1981 &ndash; Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1945)
* 1984 &ndash; Toni Turek, German footballer (b. 1919)
* 1986 &ndash; Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953)
* 1988 &ndash; Kim Philby, British agent and spy (b. 1912)
* 1994 &ndash; Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
* 1996 &ndash; Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
* 1996 &ndash; Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
* 1996 &ndash; Nnamdi Azikiwe, first President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
* 1996 &ndash; Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
* 1998 &ndash; Ernst Ising, German mathematician (b. 1900)
* 2000 &ndash; Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
* 2001 &ndash; Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)
* 2002 &ndash; Joseph Bonanno, Italian mob boss (b. 1905)
* 2002 &ndash; Bill Peet, American screenwriter and animator (b. 1915)
* 2003 &ndash; Noel Redding, English musician (b. 1945)
* 2006 &ndash; Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
* 2007 &ndash; Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Head of State (b. 1913)
* 2008 &ndash; Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)

### From 2011 
* 2011 &ndash; Maurice Goldhaber, physicist (b. 1911)
* 2014 &ndash; Francisco Sobrino, Mexican–Spanish sculptor (b. 1932)
* 2014 &ndash; Barbara Knudson, American actress (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (b. 1939)
* 2015 &ndash; Jef Geeraerts, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Stan Cornyn, American record label executive (b. 1933)
* 2015 &ndash; John Hewie, South African–Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; John Watts, Grenadian politician (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
* 2016 &ndash; Peter Behrens, German musician (b. 1947)
* 2016 &ndash; Tony Cozier, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator (b. 1940)
* 2016 &ndash; Katherine Dunn, American writer (b. 1945)
* 2016 &ndash; Michael Ratner, American lawyer (b. 1943)
* 2016 &ndash; Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Gabriel Chiramel, Indian Roman Catholic priest, educator, zoologist and writer (b. 1914)
* 2017 &ndash; Mark Colvin, British–born Australian journalist and radio presenter (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Clelio Darida, Italian politician, former Mayor of Rome (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Mikhail Alperin, Ukrainian–Norwegian jazz pianist (b. 1956)
* 2018 &ndash; Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Hugo Guerra, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1966)
* 2018 &ndash; Peter Mayer, British–American publisher (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Bengt Nilsson, Swedish high jumper (b. 1934)
* 2018 &ndash; Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
* 2019 &ndash; Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
* 2019 &ndash; Silver King, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1968)
* 2019 &ndash; Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
* 2019 &ndash; Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (b. 1980)
* 2019 &ndash; Jon Gittens, English footballer (b. 1964)
* 2019 &ndash; Robert D. Maxwell, American colonel (b. 1920)
* 2019 &ndash; Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (b. 1952)

## Observances 
* National Technology Day (India)
* Statehood Day (Minnesota)