September 30

## Events 
### Up to 1950 
* 489 &ndash; Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under King Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time in Verona, present–day Northern Italy.
* 1061 &ndash; Pope Alexander II is elected.
* 1399 &ndash; Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
* 1512 &ndash; A rock avalanche buries most of the town of Biasca in Ticino, in the Italian–speaking part of Switzerland. Hundreds of people are killed.
* 1744 &ndash; France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
* 1791 &ndash; First performance of *The Magic Flute*: This is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to have its premiere.
* 1791 &ndash; The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jerome Petion as 'incorruptible patriots'.
* 1813 &ndash; Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
* 1860 &ndash; The UK's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
* 1867 &ndash; The US takes control of the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
* 1882 &ndash; The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
* 1885 &ndash; Bechuanaland, in present–day Botswana, becomes a British Protectorate.
* 1888 &ndash; Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
* 1895 &ndash; Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
* 1906 &ndash; Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
* 1907 &ndash; Opening of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. It is the final resting place of US President William McKinley and his family.
* 1911 &ndash; The dam of the Austin Reservoir in Pennsylvania bursts, killing 78 people.
* 1915 &ndash; A Serbian army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground–to–air fire.
* 1927 &ndash; Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
* 1935 &ndash; The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
* 1935 &ndash; "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
* 1938 &ndash; The Munich Pact is signed.
* 1938 &ndash; The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
* 1939 &ndash; General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
* 1941 &ndash; Holocaust: The Nazis complete the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, in which thousands of people are killed.
* 1945 &ndash; The Bourne End rail crash in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people.
* 1947 &ndash; The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations.
* 1947 &ndash; Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
* 1949 &ndash; The Berlin Airlift ends.
* 1950 &ndash; Korean War: South Korean troops cross the 38th Parallel for the first time.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1953 &ndash; On board the bathyscaphe *Trieste*, Auguste Piccard and Jacques Piccard travel to a depth 3,150 meters below the surface of the sea, which at that time had been the deepest point anyone had travelled.
* 1954 &ndash; The U.S. Navy submarine USS *Nautilus* is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
* 1955 &ndash; James Dean dies in a car crash.
* 1960 &ndash; The last episode of *The Howdy Doody Show* airs on NBC.
* 1960 &ndash; The first episode of *The Flintstones* is shown on television.
* 1962 &ndash; Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
* 1962 &ndash; James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
* 1962 &ndash; Last episodes of *Suspense* and *Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar* broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
* 1965 &ndash; Civil unrest follows a failed coup attempt by Indonesia Communist Party (PKI). More than a million people died.
* 1966 &ndash; The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
* 1967 &ndash; BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
* 1967 &ndash; Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
* 1968 &ndash; The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.
* 1970 &ndash; Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for the release of the remaining  hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
* 1972 &ndash; Baseball: Roberto Clemente has the 3,000th hit of his career.
* 1975 &ndash; The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
* 1976 &ndash; Muhammad Ali defends his Heavyweight Boxing Title, against Ken Norton.
* 1979 &ndash; Niki Lauda retires from Formula One racing.
* 1980 &ndash; Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
* 1982 &ndash; Cyanide–laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
* 1982 &ndash; The TV sitcom *Cheers *premieres.
* 1986 &ndash; Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed Israel's covert nuclear programme to British media, is kidnapped in Rome by the Israeli Mossad.
* 1989 &ndash; Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
* 1991 &ndash; President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
* 1993 &ndash; An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
* 1997 &ndash; Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, a massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
* 1999 &ndash; Japan's then–worst nuclear accident occurs at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.

### From 2001 
* 2004 &ndash; AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.
* 2004 &ndash; The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat is taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
* 2005 &ndash; The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
* 2005 &ndash; The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
* 2009 &ndash; A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Sumatra, killing over 1,000 people.
* 2010 &ndash; In Ecuador, police officers, supported by parts of the army, attempt a failed coup against President Rafael Correa.
* 2012 &ndash; British entertainer Jimmy Savile, who had died in October 2011, is revealed to have carried out sexual abuses over a period of decades.
* 2012 &ndash; Europe wins the Ryder Cup golf tournament, with a comeback against the United States from 10–6 behind to win 14.5 to 13.5.
* 2013 &ndash; Pope Francis announces that Pope John Paul II is to become a saint in April 2014, nine years after his death.
* 2022 &ndash; Vladimir Putin pronounces the Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1207 &ndash; Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273).
* 1227 &ndash; Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292).
* 1530 &ndash; Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist (d. 1606).
* 1550 &ndash; Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631).
* 1689 &ndash; Jacques Aubert, French composer and violinist (d. 1753).
* 1710 &ndash; John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771).
* 1710 &ndash; Stanislaw Konarski, Polish monk, poet and playwright (d. 1773).
* 1715 &ndash; Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780).
* 1732 &ndash; Jacques Necker, Swiss–French politician (d. 1804).
* 1743 &ndash; Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer (d. 1813).
* 1765 &ndash; José Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815).
* 1800 &ndash; Decimus Burton, English architect (d. 1881).
* 1811 &ndash; Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Queen of Prussia and Empress of Germany (d. 1890).
* 1813 &ndash; John Rae, Orcadian physician and explorer of the Canadian Arctic (d. 1893)
* 1827 &ndash; Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918).
* 1832 &ndash; Ann Jarvis, American labor activist (d. 1905).
* 1833 &ndash; Ferdinand von Saar, Austrian writer (d. 1906).
* 1836 &ndash; Remigio Morales Bermúdez, President of Peru (d. 1894).
* 1848 &ndash; Robert Walker Macbeth, Scottish painter (d. 1910).
* 1852 &ndash; Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor and educator (d. 1924)
* 1859 &ndash; George Henry Slight, Scottish engineer, creator of the Chilean lighthouse service (d. 1934)
* 1861 &ndash; William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932).
* 1868 &ndash; José Serrato, 24th President of Uruguay (d. 1960).
* 1870 &ndash; Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (d. 1942).
* 1882 &ndash; Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945).
* 1883 &ndash; Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, British–born American engineer, architect and Women's Rights activist (d. 1945).
* 1883 &ndash; Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945).
* 1887 &ndash; Lil Dagover, Dutch–born actress (d. 1980).
* 1891 &ndash; Otto Schmidt, Russian politician, mathematician, geophysicist and Arctic explorer (d. 1956).
* 1895 &ndash; Lewis Milestone, Russian–born movie director (d. 1980).
* 1897 &ndash; Gaspar Cassado, Spanish cellist and composer (d. 1966).
* 1898 &ndash; Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977).

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Ryuzo Shimizu, Japanese footballer (date of death unknown).
* 1904 &ndash; Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971).
* 1905 &ndash; Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist (d. 1996).
* 1905 &ndash; Michael Powell, British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1990).
* 1906 &ndash; Mireille Hartuch, French singer, composer and actress (d. 1996).
* 1908 &ndash; David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974).
* 1910 &ndash; Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish military officer (d. 1962).
* 1912 &ndash; Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985).
* 1913 &ndash; Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer (d. 1975).
* 1914 &ndash; Baby Ray, American football player (d. 1986).
* 1915 &ndash; Lester Maddox, American politician, Governor of Georgia (d. 2003).
* 1916 &ndash; Richard K. Guy, British mathematician
* 1917 &ndash; Yuri Lyubimov, Russian stage actor and director (d. 2014).
* 1917 &ndash; Pak Chong Hui, President of South Korea (d. 1979).
* 1917 &ndash; Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987).
* 1918 &ndash; René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007).
* 1918 &ndash; Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (d. 2015).
* 1919 &ndash; William L. Guy, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013).
* 1920 &ndash; Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (d. 1995).
* 1921 &ndash; Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007).
* 1921 &ndash; Stanislaw Nagy, Polish cardinal (d. 2013).
* 1922 &ndash; Oscar Pettiford, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1960).
* 1924 &ndash; Truman Capote, American writer (d. 1984).
* 1926 &ndash; Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012).
* 1927 &ndash; Hossein Dehlavi, Iranian composer (d. 2019).
* 1927 &ndash; W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019).
* 1928 &ndash; Elie Wiesel, Romanian–born Holocaust survivor, activist and writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2016).
* 1928 &ndash; Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (d. 1992).
* 1929 &ndash; Helen M. Marshall, American politician (d. 2017).
* 1931 &ndash; Angie Dickinson, American actress.
* 1931 &ndash; Teresa Gorman, English politician (d. 2015).
* 1932 &ndash; Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese writer and politician.
* 1932 &ndash; Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor.
* 1933 &ndash; Michel Aoun, President of Lebanon.
* 1933 &ndash; Cissy Houston, American singer.
* 1934 &ndash; Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (d. 2018).
* 1934 &ndash; Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer (d. 2014).
* 1934 &ndash; Anna Kashfi, Indian–born actress (d. 2015).
* 1935 &ndash; Johnny Mathis, American singer.
* 1936 &ndash; Jim Sasser, 6th United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
* 1939 &ndash; Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist.
* 1940 &ndash; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, English politician.
* 1941 &ndash; Kamalesh Sharma, 5th Secretary–General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
* 1942 &ndash; Frankie Lymon, American rock and roll musician (d. 1968).
* 1943 &ndash; Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist.
* 1943 &ndash; Ian Ogilvy, English actor.
* 1944 &ndash; Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006).
* 1945 &ndash; Ehud Olmert, Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel.
* 1945 &ndash; José Manuel Fuente, Spanish cyclist (d. 1996).
* 1946 &ndash; Fran Brill, American actress, singer and puppeteer.
* 1946 &ndash; Claude Vorilhon, French journalist.
* 1946 &ndash; Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (d. 1993).
* 1947 &ndash; Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977).
* 1947 &ndash; Rula Lenska, English actress.
* 1950 &ndash; Laura Esquivel, Mexican author.

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Barry Marshall, Australian physician.
* 1951 &ndash; Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic.
* 1952 &ndash; John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* 1954 &ndash; Mitch Lewis, Canadian multi–instrumentalist
* 1954 &ndash; Basia, Polish singer-songwriter.
* 1955 &ndash; Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co–founder of Sun Microsystems.
* 1956 &ndash; Frank Arnesen, Danish footballer.
* 1957 &ndash; Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, comedienne and activist.
* 1958 &ndash; Marty Stuart, American country musician.
* 1959 &ndash; Debrah Farentino, American actress.
* 1959 &ndash; Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach.
* 1960 &ndash; Blanche Lincoln, American politician.
* 1961 &ndash; Eric Stoltz, American actor.
* 1961 &ndash; Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress.
* 1961 &ndash; Mel Stride, English politician.
* 1962 &ndash; Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer.
* 1964 &ndash; Monica Bellucci, Italian actress.
* 1964 &ndash; Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* 1964 &ndash; Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player.
* 1965 &ndash; Omid Djalili, English comedian and actor.
* 1965 &ndash; Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter
* 1965 &ndash; Kathleen Madigan, American comedienne and actress.
* 1966 &ndash; Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player.
* 1967 &ndash; Steve Kean, Scottish football manager.
* 1969 &ndash; Alex Rae, Scottish footballer.
* 1970 &ndash; Damian Mori, American actor.
* 1970 &ndash; Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor and producer.
* 1971 &ndash; Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Italian actor.
* 1971 &ndash; Jenna Elfman, American actress.
* 1972 &ndash; Ari Behn, Norwegian writer.
* 1974 &ndash; Tom Greatrex, English politician.
* 1974 &ndash; Daniel Wu, American–Hong Kong actor, director and producer.
* 1975 &ndash; Marion Cotillard, French actress.
* 1975 &ndash; Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player.
* 1975 &ndash; Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch politician.

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Sun Juhai, Chinese footballer.
* 1977 &ndash; Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer.
* 1978 &ndash; Candice Michelle, American female wrestler.
* 1979 &ndash; Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer.
* 1979 &ndash; Primoz Kozmus, Slovenian hammer thrower.
* 1979 &ndash; Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer.
* 1980 &ndash; Christian Cantwell, American shot putter.
* 1980 &ndash; Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player.
* 1981 &ndash; Cecelia Ahern, Irish writer.
* 1982 &ndash; Lacey Chabert, American actress.
* 1982 &ndash; Kieran Culkin, American actor.
* 1982 &ndash; Ola Jordan, Polish–British ballroom dancer.
* 1982 &ndash; Teal Redmann, American actress.
* 1982 &ndash; Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player.
* 1984 &ndash; Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes).
* 1984 &ndash; Georgios Eleftheriou, Greek footballer.
* 1985 &ndash; Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (d. 2017).
* 1985 &ndash; T-Pain, American rapper.
* 1985 &ndash; Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
* 1986 &ndash; Olivier Giroud, French footballer.
* 1986 &ndash; Cristian Zapata, Colombian footballer.
* 1987 &ndash; Lauren Holiday, American soccer player.
* 1987 &ndash; Rumi Harai, Japanese actress, model and gymnast.
* 1992 &ndash; Ezra Miller, American actor.
* 1994 &ndash; Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast.
* 1996 &ndash; Lewis Morgan, Scottish footballer.
* 1997 &ndash; Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast.
* 1997 &ndash; Max Verstappen, Belgian–Dutch racing driver.
* 2002 &ndash; Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress.

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 420 &ndash; Jerome, Roman priest, theologian and historian (b. 347)
* 653 &ndash; Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury 
* 954 &ndash; King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
* 1101 &ndash; Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
* 1246 &ndash; Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
* 1440 &ndash; Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin, Welsh soldier and politician (b. 1362)
* 1487 &ndash; John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
* 1560 &ndash; Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
* 1572 &ndash; Saint Francis of Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
* 1626 &ndash; Taizu Emperor, Chinese Emperor (b. 1559)
* 1628 &ndash; Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician (b. 1554)
* 1770 &ndash; Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
* 1865 &ndash; Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (b. 1800)
* 1888 &ndash; Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
* 1888 &ndash; Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
* 1891 &ndash; Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
* 1897 &ndash; Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (b. 1873)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1910 &ndash; Maurice Levy, French engineer (b. 1838)
* 1914 &ndash; Yu Kil-chun, Korean politician (b. 1856)
* 1932 &ndash; Constantin Coanda, Romanian politician (b. 1857)
* 1934 &ndash; Giuseppe Mori, Italian cardinal (b. 1850)
* 1942 &ndash; Hans-Joachim Marseille, German pilot (b. 1919)
* 1943 &ndash; Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
* 1948 &ndash; Edith Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1861)
* 1953 &ndash; Lewis Fry Richardson, British meteorologist (b. 1881)
* 1955 &ndash; James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
* 1973 &ndash; Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and actor (b. 1902)
* 1974 &ndash; Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General (b. 1915)
* 1977 &ndash; Mary Ford, American singer (b. 1924)
* 1985 &ndash; Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
* 1985 &ndash; Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
* 1990 &ndash; Patrick White, Australian writer (b. 1912)
* 1994 &ndash; André Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
* 1994 &ndash; Roberto Eduardo Viola, Argentine politician (b. 1924)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Göran Kropp, Swedish mountaineer (b. 1966)
* 2002 &ndash; Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1913)
* 2003 &ndash; Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (b. 1944)
* 2004 &ndash; Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director and politician (b. 1936)
* 2004 &ndash; Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (b. 1935)
* 2004 &ndash; Michael Relph, English director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1915)
* 2007 &ndash; Joe Mitty, English humanitarian, founder of Oxfam (b. 1919)
* 2010 &ndash; Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer (b. 1941)
* 2011 &ndash; Anwar al-Awlaki, American–born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
* 2011 &ndash; Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist (b. 1943)
* 2012 &ndash; Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (b. 1928)
* 2012 &ndash; Barry Commoner, American biologist (b. 1917)
* 2013 &ndash; Kazys Bobelis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1923)
* 2013 &ndash; Rangel Valchanov, Bulgarian actor and director (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Kashmiri Shia cleric, politician and businessman (b. 1942)
* 2014 &ndash; Jerrie Mock, American pilot (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Kelly Gissendaner, American criminal (b. 1968)
* 2015 &ndash; Claude Dauphin, French businessman (b. 1951)
* 2015 &ndash; Guido Altarelli, Italian theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
* 2015 &ndash; Ricky Talan, Dutch footballer (b. 1960)
* 2016 &ndash; Oscar Brand, Canadian–American folk singer-songwriter and author (b. 1920)
* 2016 &ndash; Mike Towell, Scottish boxer (b. 1991) 
* 2017 &ndash; Monty Hall, Canadian–American game show host (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (b. 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Donald Malarkey, American army officer (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Joe Tiller, American football player (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian–American mathematician (b. 1966) 
* 2018 &ndash; Edredon Bleu, British–bred racehorse (b. 1992)
* 2018 &ndash; Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor (b. 1942)
* 2018 &ndash; Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (b. 1945)
* 2018 &ndash; René Pétillon, French cartoonist (b. 1945)
* 2019 &ndash; David Akers-Jones, British politician (b. 1927)
* 2019 &ndash; Wayne Fitzgerald, American film and television title designer (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Viju Khote, Indian actor (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Jessye Norman, American opera singer (b. 1945)
* 2019 &ndash; Ben Pon, Dutch racing driver (b. 1936)

## Observances 
* Independence Day (Botswana)
* International Translation Day (after Jerome, Bible translator)