February 11

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 660 BC &ndash; Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
* 244 &ndash; mutinous soldiers in Zaitha, Mesopotamia (present–day Iraq) murder Roman Emperor Gordian III.
* 731 &ndash; Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
* 824 &ndash; Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
* 1531 &ndash; Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
* 1543 &ndash; Battle of Wayna Daga – Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
* 1752 &ndash; Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
* 1790 &ndash; Society of Friends petitions United States Congress for abolition of slavery.
* 1794 &ndash; First session of United States Senate open to the public.
* 1808 &ndash; Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
* 1809 &ndash; Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
* 1810 &ndash; Napoléon marries Marie–Louise of Austria.
* 1812 &ndash; Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
* 1814 &ndash; Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
* 1826 &ndash; University College London is founded under the name *University of London*.
* 1837 &ndash; American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
* 1840 &ndash; Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
* 1843 &ndash; Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
* 1855 &ndash; Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia is crowned.
* 1858 &ndash; The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
* 1861 &ndash; American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
* 1873 &ndash; King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
* 1889 &ndash; Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
* 1903 &ndash; Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
* 1906 &ndash; Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical *Vehementer nos*.
* 1907 &ndash; Paddle steamer *Larchmont* sinks after colliding with a schooner in Rhode Island Sound, killing 140 people. 
* 1908 &ndash; Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
* 1916 &ndash; Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
* 1919 &ndash; Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
* 1928 &ndash; 1928 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
* 1929 &ndash; Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
* 1937 &ndash; A sit–down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
* 1938 &ndash; BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play *R.U.R.* (This play coined the term 'robot.')
* 1941 &ndash; First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
* 1943 &ndash; General Dwight D. Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
* 1945 &ndash; Yalta Conference ends.
* 1948 &ndash; John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
* 1953 &ndash; The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
* 1961 &ndash; Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
* 1963 &ndash; The Beatles record 10 tracks for their first album, *Please Please Me*.
* 1964 &ndash; At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
* 1964 &ndash; Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
* 1964 &ndash; The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
* 1968 &ndash; Israeli–Jordanian border clashes.
* 1968 &ndash; Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City.
* 1971 &ndash; US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
* 1973 &ndash; Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
* 1975 &ndash; Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of the Conservative Party. This will lead to her becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
* 1978 &ndash; Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
* 1979 &ndash; Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
* 1981 &ndash; 100,000 gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
* 1986 &ndash; Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
* 1987 &ndash; Philippines constitution goes into effect.
* 1990 &ndash; James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown.
* 1990 &ndash; Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
* 1991 &ndash; UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
* 1992 &ndash; Art band The KLF subvert the United Kingdom's BRIT Awards.
* 1999 &ndash; Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet farthest from the sun. It had been the eighth farthest since 1979. It is downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; A Dutch programmer starts the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails through a trick photo of the tennis player.
* 2006 &ndash; On a hunting trip near Corpus Christi, Texas, US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots and injures his friend, multimillionaire lawyer Harry Whittington.
* 2008 &ndash; East Timor's President José Ramos-Horta is injured in a rebel attack. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dies in the attack.
* 2011 &ndash; 2011 Egyptian protests: In the wake of anti–government protests, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak resigns.
* 2012 &ndash; American singer and actress Whitney Houston is found dead in her hotel room in Los Angeles.
* 2013 &ndash; Pope Benedict XVI announces that he is to resign as Pope on February 28, as the first Pope to resign in 598 years.
* 2014 &ndash; At least 76 people are killed in a plane crash in northeastern Algeria.
* 2014 &ndash; 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: The first Olympic women's Ski jumping competition takes place. The gold medal is won by Carina Vogt of Germany.
* 2016 &ndash; Scientists announce the discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

## Births
### Before 1800
* 1261 &ndash; Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (died 1312)
* 1377 &ndash; King Ladislaus of Naples (died 1414)
* 1380 &ndash; Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (died 1459)
* 1466 &ndash; Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (died 1503)
* 1535 &ndash; Pope Gregory XIV (died 1591)
* 1568 &ndash; Honore d'Urfe, French writer (died 1625)
* 1657 &ndash; Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle, French scientist and writer (died 1757)
* 1715 &ndash; Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British collector of art and nature specimens (died 1785)
* 1755 &ndash; Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (died 1822)
* 1764 &ndash; Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (died 1611)
* 1776 &ndash; Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat and Head of State (died 1836)
* 1780 &ndash; Karoline von Günderode, poet (died 1806)
* 1800 &ndash; William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (died 1877)

### 1801 - 1900
* 1802 &ndash; Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (died 1880)
* 1812 &ndash; Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy) (died 1883)
* 1812 &ndash; Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, (died 1883)
* 1813 &ndash; Otto Ludwig, German novelist, playwright, critic (died 1865)
* 1819 &ndash; Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (died 1890)
* 1821 &ndash; Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (died 1881)
* 1830 &ndash; Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, musician (died 1913)
* 1833 &ndash; Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1910)
* 1839 &ndash; Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist, chemist (died 1903)
* 1847 &ndash; Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (died 1931)
* 1860 &ndash; Rachilde (Marguérite Vallette–Eymery), French writer (died 1953)
* 1863 &ndash; John F. Fitzgerald, American politician (died 1950)
* 1869 &ndash; Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (died 1939)
* 1869 &ndash; Else Lasker-Schüler, lyricist, dramatist and narrator (died 1945)
* 1873 &ndash; Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (died 1938)
* 1874 &ndash; Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book and fairy tale writer, (died 1953)
* 1881 &ndash; Arthur Davidson, American businessman (d. 1950)
* 1887 &ndash; John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
* 1894 &ndash; Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (died 1974)
* 1897 &ndash; Colgate W. Darden, Governor of Virginia (died 1981)
* 1898 &ndash; Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist, peace activist (died 1964)
* 1900 &ndash; Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (died 2002)

### 1901 - 1925
* 1902 &ndash; Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (died 1971)
* 1903 &ndash; Hans Redlich, composer (d. 1968)
* 1904 &ndash; Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983)
* 1904 &ndash; Clarence W. Meadows, Governor of West Virginia (died 1961)
* 1908 &ndash; Vivian Fuchs, British geologist, explorer (died 1999)
* 1908 &ndash; Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1992)
* 1909 &ndash; Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (died 1959)
* 1909 &ndash; Joseph Mankiewicz, director (died 1993)
* 1911 &ndash; Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow (d. 1998)
* 1912 &ndash; Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (died 1991)
* 1912 &ndash; Rudolf Firkusny, Czech–American pianist (died 1994)
* 1914 &ndash; Matt Dennis, American singer (died 2002)
* 1914 &ndash; Menelaos Pallantios, composer
* 1915 &ndash; Patrick Leigh Fermor, English writer (died 2011)
* 1915 &ndash; Mervyn Levy, British artist, critic (died 1996)
* 1915 &ndash; Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist
* 1916 &ndash; Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, California (died 1998)
* 1916 &ndash; Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist, gerontologist
* 1917 &ndash; Sidney Sheldon, American writer (died 2007)
* 1917 &ndash; Giuseppe Santis, Italian film director (died 1997)
* 1919 &ndash; Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (died 1994)
* 1919 &ndash; Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (died 1995)
* 1919 &ndash; Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (died 1997)
* 1919 &ndash; Eddie Robinson, college football coach.
* 1920 &ndash; King Farouk I of Egypt (died 1965)
* 1920 &ndash; Daniel Galouye, American science fiction writer (died 2006)
* 1920 &ndash; Billy Halop, American actor (died 1976)
* 1920 &ndash; Paul Peter Piech, artist (died 1996)
* 1921 &ndash; Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (died 2006)
* 1921 &ndash; Jacques Friedel, French physicist (died 2014)
* 1921 &ndash; Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer (died 2013)
* 1922 &ndash; Tudor Jarda, composer
* 1923 &ndash; Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
* 1924 &ndash; Mary Tregear, Chinese–British Oriental art historian (died 2010)
* 1924 &ndash; Budge Patty, American tennis player
* 1925 &ndash; Peter Berger, British Vice–Admiral (died 2003)
* 1925 &ndash; Virginia E. Johnson, American doctor and sexologist (died 2013)
* 1925 &ndash; Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)

### 1926 - 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Paul Bocuse, French chef (died 2018)
* 1926 &ndash; Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)
* 1926 &ndash; Leslie Nielsen, Canadian–American actor (died 2010)
* 1927 &ndash; Albano Harguindeguy, Argentine military (died 2012)
* 1928 &ndash; Gotthilf Fischer, German choirmaster 
* 1928 &ndash; Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
* 1928 &ndash; Conrad Janis, American actor
* 1929 &ndash; Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast
* 1929 &ndash; Leonard Kastle, American composer (died 2011)
* 1931 &ndash; Larry Merchant, American writer, boxing commentator
* 1932 &ndash; Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist, professor
* 1932 &ndash; Dennis Skinner, English politician
* 1934 &ndash; Tina Louise, American singer, actress and writer
* 1934 &ndash; Francesco Pennisi, composer
* 1934 &ndash; Mary Quant, British fashion designer
* 1934 &ndash; John Surtees, British race car driver (died 2017)
* 1934 &ndash; Mel Carnahan, 51st Governor of Missouri
* 1935 &ndash; Bent Lorentzen, composer
* 1936 &ndash; Burt Reynolds, American actor
* 1937 &ndash; Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist, playwright
* 1937 &ndash; Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
* 1937 &ndash; Peter Lashley, West Indies cricketer
* 1937 &ndash; Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
* 1937 &ndash; Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (died 2018)
* 1938 &ndash; Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer (died 2018)
* 1938 &ndash; Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
* 1938 &ndash; Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian athlete
* 1938 &ndash; Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator (died 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; Gerry Goffin, American lyricist (died 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Jane Yolen, American science fiction writer
* 1940 &ndash; Bobby Picket, American musician (died 2007)
* 1940 &ndash; Mick Staton, American politician (died 2014)
* 1941 &ndash; Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician and songwriter
* 1942 &ndash; Otis Clay, American gospel and R&B singer (died 2016)
* 1943 &ndash; Iain Cameron, British brigadier
* 1943 &ndash; Gerhard Glogowski, German politician
* 1943 &ndash; Joselito, Spanish singer
* 1943 &ndash; Serge Lama, French singer
* 1944 &ndash; Buddhadev Dasgupta, Indian movie director
* 1944 &ndash; Bert Greene, golfer
* 1944 &ndash; Mike Oxley, American politician (died 2016)
* 1945 &ndash; Ralph Doubell, Australian athlete
* 1945 &ndash; Burhan Ghalioun, French–Syrian professor of sociology
* 1946 &ndash; Ian Porterfield, British footballer (died 2007)
* 1947 &ndash; Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan
* 1947 &ndash; Derek Shulman, Scottish musician
* 1948 &ndash; Chris Rush, American comedian, actor and writer
* 1948 &ndash; Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (died 2014)

### 1951 - 1975
* 1953 &ndash; Jeb Bush, American politician, former Governor of Florida
* 1953 &ndash; Philip Anglim, American actor
* 1954 &ndash; Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
* 1955 &ndash; Anneli Jaatteenmaki, former Prime Minister of Finland
* 1956 &ndash; Catherine Hickland, American actress and singer
* 1959 &ndash; Bradley Cole, American actor
* 1959 &ndash; Harold J. Greene, American general (died 2014)
* 1959 &ndash; Deborah Meaden, British businesswoman
* 1960 &ndash; Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut
* 1960 &ndash; Momus, Scottish musician, writer and journalist
* 1961 &ndash; Mary Docter, speed skater
* 1961 &ndash; Carey Lowell, American actress
* 1962 &ndash; Tammy Baldwin, American politician, United States Senator for Wisconsin
* 1962 &ndash; Sheryl Crow, American musician
* 1964 &ndash; Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
* 1964 &ndash; Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
* 1964 &ndash; Ken Shamrock, American professional wrestler and martial artist
* 1966 &ndash; Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, controversial French comedian 
* 1969 &ndash; Jennifer Aniston, American actress
* 1970 &ndash; Alistair Brown, English cricketer
* 1971 &ndash; Damian Lewis, English actor
* 1972 &ndash; Dennis McManaman, English footballer
* 1972 &ndash; Kelly Slater, American surfer
* 1973 &ndash; Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician
* 1974 &ndash; D'Angelo, singer
* 1974 &ndash; Nick Barmby, English footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Alex Jones, American radio host
* 1974 &ndash; Jaroslav Spacek, Czech ice hockey player
* 1975 &ndash; Chuck Watanabe, American kayaker

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Mike Shinoda, American musician
* 1979 &ndash; Brandy Norwood, American singer and actress
* 1980 &ndash; Natasha Bobo, actress
* 1980 &ndash; Mark Bresciano, Australian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Matthew Lawrence, American actor
* 1981 &ndash; Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)
* 1982 &ndash; Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
* 1982 &ndash; Natalie Dormer, British actress
* 1983 &ndash; Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress
* 1984 &ndash; Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1985 &ndash; Sarah Butler, American actress
* 1987 &ndash; Lembi Vaher, Estonian pole vaulter
* 1987 &ndash; Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician
* 1988 &ndash; Junjun, Chinese–Japanese singer
* 1990 &ndash; Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal, of Jordan
* 1990 &ndash; Go Ara, South Korean actress
* 1990 &ndash; Q'orianka Kilcher, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Hwang Chan-sung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
* 1991 &ndash; Georgia May Foote, British actress
* 1991 &ndash; Nikola Mirotic, Montenegrin–Spanish basketball player
* 1991 &ndash; Christofer Drew, American singer and composer
* 1992 &ndash; Taylor Lautner, American actor
* 1992 &ndash; Georgia Groome, British actress
* 1993 &ndash; Ben McLemore, American basketball player
* 1994 &ndash; Dominic Janes, American actor
* 1996 &ndash; Jonathan Tah, German footballer

## Deaths
### Before 1900
* 55 &ndash; Britannicus, son of Claudius (b. 41)
* 244 &ndash; Gordian III, Roman Emperor
* 641 &ndash; Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium in 610–641 (born ca. 575)
* 731 &ndash; Pope Gregory II
* 821 &ndash; Saint Benedict of Aniane (born ca. 747)
* 824 &ndash; Pope Paschal I
* 1141 &ndash; Hugo of St. Victor, philosopher, theologian, mystic
* 1160 &ndash; Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (born 1123)
* 1503 &ndash; Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (born 1466)
* 1543 &ndash; Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal
* 1622 &ndash; Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
* 1626 &ndash; Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1552)
* 1650 &ndash; René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)
* 1685 &ndash; David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
* 1713 &ndash; Jahandar Shah, Mughal Emperor (born 1664)
* 1762 &ndash; Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
* 1763 &ndash; William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
* 1795 &ndash; Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (born 1740)
* 1797 &ndash; Antoine Dauvergne, composer (born 1713)
* 1806 &ndash; Vicente Martín y Soler, composer
* 1829 &ndash; Alexander Griboyedov, Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (born 1795)
* 1841 &ndash; J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
* 1848 &ndash; Thomas Cole, British–American painter (born 1801)
* 1862 &ndash; Elizabeth Siddal, poet and artist (born 1829)
* 1868 &ndash; Léon Foucault, French astronomer (born 1819)
* 1870 &ndash; Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
* 1871 &ndash; Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine, Luxembourg politician
* 1879 &ndash; Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter (born 1808)
* 1879 &ndash; Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch writer
* 1882 &ndash; Gustav Schmidt, composer (born 1874)
* 1892 &ndash; Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
* 1894 &ndash; Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer

### 1901 - 2000
* 1903 &ndash; Henryk Szulc, composer
* 1907 &ndash; Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
* 1911 &ndash; Albert von Rothschild, baron, Austrian banker
* 1917 &ndash; Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (born 1872)
* 1918 &ndash; Taytou Betul, Empress of Ethiopia (born 1851)
* 1922 &ndash; Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher
* 1931 &ndash; Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (born 1854)
* 1937 &ndash; Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and city planner (born 1876)
* 1939 &ndash; Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (born 1874)
* 1940 &ndash; John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish writer and Governor–General of Canada (born 1875)
* 1942 &ndash; Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and independence activist (born 1884)
* 1945 &ndash; Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (born 1891)
* 1945 &ndash; J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
* 1948 &ndash; Sergei Eisenstein, Russian movie director (born 1898)
* 1958 &ndash; Ernest Jones, British neurologist and psychoanalyst (born 1879)
* 1959 &ndash; Marshall Teague, race car driver (born 1922)
* 1960 &ndash; Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
* 1960 &ndash; Victor Klemperer, German writer (born 1881)
* 1961 &ndash; Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor, director
* 1963 &ndash; Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist (born 1932)
* 1968 &ndash; Howard Lindsay, playwright (born 1888)
* 1970 &ndash; Emil Abranyi, composer
* 1971 &ndash; Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director
* 1972 &ndash; Jan Wils, architect (born 1891)
* 1973 &ndash; Hans D Jensen, German physicist (born 1907)
* 1975 &ndash; Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar (born 1931)
* 1976 &ndash; Lee J Cobb, actor (born 1911)
* 1976 &ndash; Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (born 1894)
* 1977 &ndash; Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946–1948, 1958–1959) (born 1902)
* 1977 &ndash; Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1905)
* 1978 &ndash; James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University
* 1978 &ndash; Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (born 1904)
* 1982 &ndash; Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (born 1912)
* 1982 &ndash; Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (born 1905)
* 1985 &ndash; Henry Hathaway American actor, director (born 1898)
* 1985 &ndash; Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer
* 1985 &ndash; Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer (born 1901)
* 1986 &ndash; Frank Herbert, science fiction writer (born 1920)
* 1989 &ndash; George O'Hanlon, American actor, director (born 1912)
* 1991 &ndash; Oscar Nitzchke, German architect
* 1993 &ndash; Robert W. Holley, American scientist (born 1922)
* 1993 &ndash; George A Stephen, inventor
* 1994 &ndash; Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (born 1946)
* 1994 &ndash; Sorrell Brooke, actor
* 1994 &ndash; William Conrad, actor
* 1994 &ndash; Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (born 1924)
* 1996 &ndash; Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1946)
* 1996 &ndash; Cyril Poole, English cricket player
* 1996 &ndash; Amelia Rosselli, poet
* 2000 &ndash; Roger Vadim, French director (born 1928)
* 2000 &ndash; Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (born 1917)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Arndt Brause, Schlager singer
* 2003 &ndash; Daniel Toscan du Plantier, movie producer
* 2006 &ndash; Peter Benchley, American writer (born 1940)
* 2008 &ndash; Tom Lantos, American politician (born 1928)
* 2008 &ndash; Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel leader (born 1967)
* 2010 &ndash; Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (born 1969)
* 2010 &ndash; Irina Arkhipova, Russian singer (born 1925)
* 2011 &ndash; Bo Carpelan, Finnish writer (born 1926)
* 2011 &ndash; Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (born 1977)
* 2012 &ndash; Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (born 1963)
* 2014 &ndash; Alice Babs, Swedish singer (born 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Roger Hanin, French actor and director (born 1925)
* 2015 &ndash; Bob Simon, American journalist (born 1941)
* 2015 &ndash; Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (born 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Anne Cuneo, Swiss journalist and writer (born 1936)
* 2016 &ndash; Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler (born 1971)
* 2017 &ndash; Chavo Guerrero Sr., American professional wrestler (born 1949)
* 2017 &ndash; Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (born 1990)
* 2017 &ndash; Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (born 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Harvey Lichtenstein, American arts administrator (born 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; Asma Jahangir, Pakistani lawyer (born 1952)
* 2018 &ndash; Vic Damone, American singer and actor (born 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Jon D. Fox, American politician (born 1947)
* 2018 &ndash; Jan Maxwell, American actress (born 1956)
* 2018 &ndash; Nicholas Shehadie, Australian rugby player (born 1925)

## Holidays and observances
* Catholicism – Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes
* World Day of the Sick
* Armed Forces Day (Liberia)
* Islamic Revolution's Victory Day (Iran)
* National Foundation Day (Japan)
* Youth Day (Cameroon)
* Inventors' Day (United States)