January 28

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 98 &ndash; Trajan becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire.
* 814 &ndash; Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne dies.
* 1393 &ndash; King Charles VI of France narrowly escapes death when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
* 1521 &ndash; The Diet of Worms begins.
* 1547 &ndash; As a nine–year–old, Edward VI becomes King of England, following the death of his father, King Henry VIII of England.
* 1573 &ndash; Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
* 1624 &ndash; Thomas Warner founds a colony on Saint Kitts.
* 1724 &ndash; The Russian Academy of the Sciences is founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia.
* 1754 &ndash; Horace Walpole coins the word *serendipity* in a letter to Horace Mann.
* 1813 &ndash; *Pride and Prejudice* by Jane Austen is first published.
* 1820 &ndash; A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen first sights the Antarctic continent.
* 1821 &ndash; Bellingshausen's Antarctic expedition discovers an island just off the coast of Antarctica, which later becomes known as Alexander Island.
* 1841 &ndash; James Clark Ross' Antarctic expedition discovers the Ross Ice Shelf.
* 1846 &ndash; The Battle of Aliwal in India is won by British forces under Harry Smith.
* 1855 &ndash; In Panama, a locomotive travels from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
* 1870 &ndash; After leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, British passenger steamer *City of Boston* disappears without trace in the North Atlantic Ocean, along with the 191 people on board.
* 1871 &ndash; Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in a French defeat and an armistice.
* 1878 &ndash; The *Yale Daily News* becomes the first daily (meaning it is published every day) college newspaper in the United States.
* 1878 &ndash; The first telephone box opens in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1887 &ndash; The world's largest snowflakes are recorded at Fort Keogh, Montana.
* 1887 &ndash; Building of the Eiffel Tower begins.
* 1896 &ndash; Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent is the first person convicted of a speeding offence.
* 1897 &ndash; The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 was amended on the 28th of January by the British Raj within British India respectively.
* 1900 &ndash; The DFB, German Football Federation, is founded.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; Some members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup against the dictatorship of Joao Franco.
* 1909 &ndash; US troops leave Cuba, except for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, having been there since 1898.
* 1915 &ndash; An Act of Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
* 1917 &ndash; City–owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco for the first time. 
* 1918 &ndash; Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize Helsinki.
* 1922 &ndash; The Knickerbocker Storm causes Washington, DC's biggest snowfall.
* 1932 &ndash; Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
* 1933 &ndash; Choudhary Rahmat Ali Khan chooses the name "Pakistan" on this date. Today it is one of the official national holidays of the 'Islamic Republic'.
* 1933 &ndash; Kurt von Schleicher resigns as Chancellor of Germany and suggests to Paul von Hindenburg to name Adolf Hitler as the next Chancellor.
* 1934 &ndash; The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
* 1935 &ndash; Iceland legalises abortion.
* 1938 &ndash; Rudolf Caracciola sets the World Land Speed Record on a public road, with 432.7 kilometers per hour (268.9 miles per hour).
* 1941 &ndash; French-Thai War: A Japanese–mediated armistice goes into effect.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly re–opened Burma Road.
* 1956 &ndash; Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on US television.
* 1958 &ndash; The Lego company patents its now–famous toy bricks.
* 1958 &ndash; The last episode of British radio show *The Goon Show* is broadcast.
* 1959 &ndash; Thailand adopts a new constitution.
* 1964 &ndash; An unarmed United States Air Force T–39 Sabreliner on a training misiion is shot down over Erfurt, then–East Germany, by a Soviet MiG–19.
* 1965 &ndash; The design for the current Flag of Canada is chosen in an Act of Parliament.
* 1977 &ndash; The Great Lakes Blizzard (snowstorm), lasting until February 1, affects parts of upstate New York.
* 1979 &ndash; Pope John Paul II visits Mexico.
* 1980 &ndash; The ship USCGC *Blackthorn* collides with the tanker *Capricorn* off Tampa, Florida, killing 23 people.
* 1982 &ndash; United States Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti–terrorist forces.
* 1984 &ndash; Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in Mozambique, where it causes widespread flooding and kills 214 people.
* 1985 &ndash; Supergroup USA for Africa records the hit single We Are the World to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
* 1986 &ndash; The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up 73 seconds after lift off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing all 7 astronauts on board.
* 1987 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev, in a speech, sets out plans for liberal reforms, including Perestroika and Glasnost.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727–100, crashes in the Colombian Andes, killing 92 people.
* 2006 &ndash; At the Katowice International Fair in Poland, the roof of one of the buildings collapses, killing 65 people.
* 2011 &ndash; 2011 Egyptian protests: Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in Egypt, in protest against Hosni Mubarak, who cuts internet access on the same day.
* 2013 &ndash; Three days before her 75th birthday, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her intention to give up the throne on April 30 of the same year, when Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange becomes the Netherlands' first king since 1890.
* 2014 &ndash; After strong protests, Ukraine withdraws a controversial anti–protest law introduced over a week earlier.
* 2014 &ndash; The United Nations Court in The Hague defines the maritime border between Peru and Chile.
* 2017 &ndash; Serena Williams wins her 23rd Grand Slam tennis Singles title at the Australian Open, surpassing Steffi Graf's Open Era record of 22.
* 2018 &ndash; Roger Federer wins his 20th Grand Slam singles tennis title, at the Australian Open.

## Births
### Up to 1850 
* 1225 &ndash; Saint Thomas of Aquinas (d. 1274).
* 1312 &ndash; Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349).
* 1453 &ndash; Simonetta Vespucci, Italian Renaissance figure (d. 1476).
* 1457 &ndash; King Henry VII of England (d. 1509).
* 1507 &ndash; Ferrante Gonzaga, Viceroy of Sicily (d. 1557).
* 1533 &ndash; Paul Luther, German physician and son of Martin Luther (d. 1593).
* 1540 &ndash; Ludolph von Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610).
* 1582 &ndash; John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621).
* 1600 &ndash; Pope Clement IX (d. 1669).
* 1608 &ndash; Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679).
* 1611 &ndash; Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (d. 1687).
* 1622 &ndash; Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691).
* 1701 &ndash; Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774).
* 1706 &ndash; John Baskerville, English writer and printmaker (d. 1775).
* 1712 &ndash; Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761).
* 1717 &ndash; Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774).
* 1719 &ndash; Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749).
* 1768 &ndash; King Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway (d. 1669).
* 1784 &ndash; George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860).
* 1806 &ndash; William Aitken, Jr., Governor of South Carolina (d. 1887).
* 1807 &ndash; Robert McClure, Irish seafarer and explorer (d. 1873).
* 1809 &ndash; Theodor Benfey, German philologist (d. 1881).
* 1815 &ndash; Andrew Jackson Hamilton, 12th Governor of Texas (d. 1875).
* 1818 &ndash; George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts and 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905).
* 1822 &ndash; Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892).
* 1833 &ndash; Charles George Gordon, British general (d. 1885).
* 1838 &ndash; James Craig Watson, American astronomer (d. 1880).
* 1841 &ndash; Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh–born explorer, journalist and colonialist (d. 1904).

### 1851 &ndash; 1900 
* 1853 &ndash; Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1891).
* 1853 &ndash; Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1890).
* 1858 &ndash; Tannatt William Edgworth David, Welsh–born Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934).
* 1858 &ndash; Stoyan Danev, Prime minister of Bulgaria (d. 1949).
* 1863 &ndash; Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918).
* 1864 &ndash; Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948).
* 1864 &ndash; Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927).
* 1865 &ndash; Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952).
* 1865 &ndash; Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928).
* 1872 &ndash; Otto Braun, Prussian politician (d. 1955).
* 1873 &ndash; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, French writer (d. 1954).
* 1875 &ndash; Julian Carrillo, Mexican composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist (d. 1965).
* 1884 &ndash; Auguste Piccard, Swiss scientist (d. 1962).
* 1884 &ndash; Jean Piccard, Swiss scientist (d. 1963).
* 1886 &ndash; Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973).
* 1886 &ndash; Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976).
* 1887 &ndash; Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (d. 1982).
* 1889 &ndash; Ramon Iglesias i Navarri, Catalan Bishop of Urgel, Spanish Co–Prince Andorra (d. 1972).
* 1890 &ndash; Robert Stroud, American convict, "Birdman of Alcatraz" (d. 1963)
* 1891 &ndash; Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954).
* 1892 &ndash; Ernst Lubitsch, German director (d. 1947).
* 1897 &ndash; Valentin Kataev, Soviet dramatist (d. 1986).

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., American art historian (d. 1981).
* 1909 &ndash; John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931).
* 1910 &ndash; John Banner, Austrian–born actor (d. 1973).
* 1911 &ndash; Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician (d. 2018).
* 1912 &ndash; Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956).
* 1918 &ndash; Sandro Puppo, Italian footballer (d. 1986).
* 1919 &ndash; Francis Gobreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002).
* 1922 &ndash; Robert W. Holley, American biochemist (d. 1993).
* 1923 &ndash; Richard Herrmann, German footballer (d. 1962).
* 1924 &ndash; Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian artist (d. 1976).
* 1926 &ndash; Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, former Interim President of Iran (d. 2016).
* 1926 &ndash; Harry L. Ettlinger, German–American engineer (d. 2018).
* 1927 &ndash; Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001).
* 1927 &ndash; Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010).
* 1929 &ndash; Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinettist (d. 2014).
* 1929 &ndash; Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist.
* 1929 &ndash; Claes Oldenburg, Swedish–American artist.
* 1930 &ndash; Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician.
* 1930 &ndash; Jasraj, Indian classical singer (d. 2020).
* 1930 &ndash; Roy Clarke, English television scriptwriter.
* 1934 &ndash; Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990).
* 1935 &ndash; David Lodge, British writer.
* 1936 &ndash; Alan Alda, American actor, director and writer.
* 1936 &ndash; Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018).
* 1936 &ndash; Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer (d. 2024).
* 1937 &ndash; Donald Crothers, American academic and educator (d. 2014).
* 1938 &ndash; Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biologist and geneticist.
* 1938 &ndash; Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016).
* 1939 &ndash; John M. Fabian, American pilot and astronaut.
* 1940 &ndash; Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman.
* 1941 &ndash; Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985).
* 1941 &ndash; King Tubby, Jamaican musician (d. 1989).
* 1942 &ndash; Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater.
* 1943 &ndash; Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player.
* 1943 &ndash; Dick Taylor, British musician.
* 1944 &ndash; Susan Howard, American actress.
* 1944 &ndash; John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013).
* 1945 &ndash; Marthe Keller, Swiss actress.
* 1945 &ndash; Robert Wyatt, English musician.
* 1947 &ndash; Jeanne Shaheen, American politician, United States Senator for New Hampshire
* 1948 &ndash; Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia.
* 1948 &ndash; Heinz Flohe, German footballer (d. 2013).
* 1949 &ndash; Mike Moore, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand.
* 1949 &ndash; Thomas Downey, American politician.
* 1949 &ndash; Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach.
* 1950 &ndash; David C. Hilmers, American astronaut.
* 1950 &ndash; Hamad Ibn Isa al Khalifah, King of Bahrain.

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut (d. 2018).
* 1953 &ndash; Richard Anconina, French actor.
* 1954 &ndash; Bruno Metsu, French footballer and coach (d. 2013)
* 1954 &ndash; Robin Smith, Canadian voice actor
* 1955 &ndash; Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of France.
* 1955 &ndash; Vinod Khosla, Indian–American businessman, co–founded Sun Microsystems. 
* 1957 &ndash; Frank Skinner, English comedian.
* 1957 &ndash; Nick Price, Zimbabwean golfer.
* 1961 &ndash; Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer.
* 1961 &ndash; Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player.
* 1962 &ndash; Joan McAlpine, Scottish politician.
* 1964 &ndash; Dave McPherson, Scottish footballer
* 1964 &ndash; Juergen Teller, German artist and photographer.
* 1966 &ndash; Andrea Berg, German singer.
* 1968 &ndash; Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer/songwriter
* 1968 &ndash; DJ Muggs, American musician
* 1969 &ndash; Kathryn Morris, American actress.
* 1971 &ndash; Anthony Hamilton, American singer
* 1972 &ndash; Nicky Southall, English footballer and manager
* 1974 &ndash; Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1975 &ndash; Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer (Steps)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Lee Ingleby, English actor.
* 1976 &ndash; Rick Ross, American rapper.
* 1977 &ndash; Daunte Culpepper, American football player.
* 1977 &ndash; Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
* 1978 &ndash; Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Jamie Carragher, English footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
* 1980 &ndash; Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
* 1980 &ndash; Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Michael Hastings, American journalist (d. 2013)
* 1981 &ndash; Elijah Wood, American actor
* 1984 &ndash; Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
* 1984 &ndash; Anne Panter, English field hockey player
* 1985 &ndash; Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 &ndash; Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
* 1985 &ndash; J. Cole, American rapper
* 1985 &ndash; Andras Kallay-Saunders, American–Hungarian singer
* 1986 &ndash; Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
* 1986 &ndash; Jessica Ennis-Hill, British athlete
* 1989 &ndash; Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Calum Worthy, Canadian actor
* 1991 &ndash; Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1992 &ndash; Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer
* 1993 &ndash; John Anthony Brooks, German–American soccer player
* 1993 &ndash; Will Poulter, English actor
* 1998 &ndash; Ariel Winter, American actress and singer

## Deaths
### Up to 1950 
* 592 &ndash; Guntram, King of the Franks (b. 532)
* 814 &ndash; Charlemagne, King of the Franks (b. early 700s)
* 1271 &ndash; Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
* 1443 &ndash; Robert Le Masson, Chancellor of France
* 1547 &ndash; Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
* 1596 &ndash; Francis Drake, English naval officer, explorer and pirate (b. 1540)
* 1613 &ndash; Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
* 1621 &ndash; Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
* 1672 &ndash; Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
* 1687 &ndash; Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and Mayor of Gdansk (b. 1611)
* 1697 &ndash; John Fenwick, English conspirator
* 1754 &ndash; Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
* 1859 &ndash; Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
* 1859 &ndash; Carl Adolph Agardh, Swedish botanist (b. 1785) 
* 1864 &ndash; Emile Chappeyron, English engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
* 1912 &ndash; Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
* 1918 &ndash; John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
* 1924 &ndash; Teofilo Braga, Portuguese statesman (b. 1843)
* 1928 &ndash; Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer (b. 1867)
* 1936 &ndash; Oscar K. Allen, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1882)
* 1937 &ndash; Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
* 1938 &ndash; Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (b. 1909)
* 1939 &ndash; William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (b. 1865)
* 1947 &ndash; Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan–French composer, conductor and critic (b. 1875)
* 1949 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Wimille, French racing driver (b. 1908)
* 1950 &ndash; Nicolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1951 &ndash; Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (b. 1867)
* 1953 &ndash; Derek Bentley, British victim of a miscarriage of justice (b. 1933) (hanged)
* 1953 &ndash; James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
* 1953 &ndash; Neyzen Tefvik, Turkish poet and satirist (b. 1879)
* 1956 &ndash; Marie Juchacz, German social reformer (b. 1883)
* 1959 &ndash; Walter Beall, American baseball (b. 1899)
* 1960 &ndash; Zora Neale Hurston, American writer (b. 1891)
* 1963 &ndash; Jean Piccard, Swiss scientist (b. 1884)
* 1963 &ndash; John Farrow, Australian screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
* 1965 &ndash; Maxime Weygand, French military (b. 1867)
* 1973 &ndash; John Banner, Austrian–born actor (b. 1910)
* 1975 &ndash; Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
* 1976 &ndash; Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian artist (b. 1924)
* 1983 &ndash; Frank Forde, shortest–serving Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
* 1983 &ndash; Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
* 1985 &ndash; Alfredo Foni, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
* 1986 &ndash; Deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster:
**Greg Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)
**Christa McAuliffe, American teacher and astronaut (b. 1948)
**Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)
**Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946)
**Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)
**Francis R. Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)
**Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1949)
* 1988 &ndash; Klaus Fuchs, German atomic spy (b. 1911)
* 1989 &ndash; Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious leader (b. 1938)
* 1991 &ndash; Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)
* 1993 &ndash; Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
* 1994 &ndash; Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
* 1996 &ndash; Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet (b. 1940)
* 1996 &ndash; Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
* 1998 &ndash; Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese writer (b. 1938)
* 1999 &ndash; Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (b. 1907)
* 2005 &ndash; Jim Capaldi, British musician (b. 1944)
* 2007 &ndash; Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
* 2008 &ndash; Christodoulos I, Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939)
* 2008 &ndash; Marie Takvam, Norwegian writer (b. 1926)
* 2009 &ndash; Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
* 2009 &ndash; Glenn Davis, American athlete (b. 1934)
* 2011 &ndash; Margaret Price, Welsh soprano (b. 1941)
* 2014 &ndash; Jorge Obeid, Argentine politician (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Yves Chauvin, French chemist (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian army officer (b. 1954)
* 2016 &ndash; Buddy Cianci, American politician (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Paul Kantner, American rock musician (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Yisroel Belsky, American rabbi (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Christopher Bland, British businessman (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Many Clouds, British racehorse (b. 2007)
* 2017 &ndash; Geoff Nicholls, British musician (b. 1948)
* 2017 &ndash; Lennart Nilsson, Swedish cinematographer (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Alexander Tikhanovich, Belarusian singer (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1940)
* 2017 &ndash; Guitar Gable, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1937)
* 2017 &ndash; Sang Chul Lee, Russian–born Canadian Christian minister (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; John N. Mather, American mathematician (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Bharati Mukherjee, American writer (b. 1940)
* 2017 &ndash; Richard Portman, American sound engineer (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Thomas Joseph Simpson, Canadian World War II veteran (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Dan Spiegle, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
* 2017 &ndash; Darryl Sutton, Australian rules footballer (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Stuart Timmons, American historian and activist (b. 1957)
* 2018 &ndash; Dharmasena Pathiraja, Sri Lankan movie director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
* 2018 &ndash; Coco Schumann, German jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
* 2018 &ndash; Gene Sharp, American political scientist (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Jurrie Koolhof, Dutch footballer (b. 1960)
* 2019 &ndash; Mourad Medelci, Algerian politician (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Pepe Smith, Filipino rock guitarist (b. 1947)

## Observances 
* Army Day (Armenia)
* EU Data Privacy Day
* Unofficial Day commemorating Charlemagne in some Christian groups.