February 22

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 1281 &ndash; Martin IV becomes Pope.
* 1288 &ndash; Nicholas IV becomes Pope.
* 1371 &ndash; Robert II of Scotland becomes King, starting the Stuart Dynasty.
* 1494 &ndash; King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
* 1632 &ndash; Galileo's *Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems* is published.
* 1651 &ndash; St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast in present–day Germany and the Netherlands, killing about 15,000 people.
* 1744 &ndash; The Battle of Toulon begins.
* 1784 &ndash; William Herschel discovers the spiral galaxy *NGC 3521*.
* 1797 &ndash; The last invasion of the Great Britain begins when a force of 4,000 French troops lands in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales. They surrender two days later.
* 1819 &ndash; By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
* 1847 &ndash; Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
* 1848 &ndash; The French Revolution of 1848 begins, later leading to the creation of the French Second Republic.
* 1855 &ndash; The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
* 1856 &ndash; The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* 1857 &ndash; The Bavarian Weisswurst sausage is allegedly invented in Munich.
* 1862 &ndash; Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.
* 1865 &ndash; Tennessee adopts a new constitution that abolishes slavery.
* 1872 &ndash; The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, with James Black as its nominee for President of the United States.
* 1876 &ndash; Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1879 &ndash; In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10–cent Woolworth stores.
* 1889 &ndash; President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
* 1890 &ndash; The Walmut Grove Dam breaks in Arizona, causing a flood that kills between 50 and 150 people.
* 1899 &ndash; Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counter–attacks for the first time, against American forces in the Philippine-American War, though fail to retake Manila.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; A Pacific mail steamer sinks in Golden Gate Harbor, killing 128 people.
* 1904 &ndash; UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
* 1915 &ndash; Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
* 1920 &ndash; In Emeryville, California, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
* 1923 &ndash; The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
* 1923 &ndash; Barcelona (Catalonia): Albert Einstein visits the city, invited by the scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa, as part of the monografics course of High Studies and Exchange organized by the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and conducted by Rafael de Campalans.
* 1924 &ndash; Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
* 1940 &ndash; Then–four–year–old Tenzin Gyatso is enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defense collapses.
* 1943 &ndash; Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch cities of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, killing 800 in Nijmegen alone.
* 1948 &ndash; The Communist Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia.
* 1949 &ndash; Grady the Cow, a 1,200–pound cow gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention.
* 1956 &ndash; Elvis Presley enters the music charts for the first time, with "Heartbreak Hotel".
* 1957 &ndash; South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem survives a Communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
* 1958 &ndash; Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
* 1959 &ndash; Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
* 1960 &ndash; A mining accident in Zwickau, East Germany kills 123 people.
* 1969 &ndash; Barbara Jo Rubin wins a United States thoroughbred horse race making history as the first woman to do so.
* 1972 &ndash; The Official IRA detonates a car bomb in Aldershot Barracks, killing 7 people.
* 1973 &ndash; Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
* 1974 &ndash; The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan and Bangladesh is recognized by Islamabad Officials.
* 1979 &ndash; Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
* 1980 &ndash; The United States men's ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
* 1986 &ndash; The People Power Revolution in the Philippines begins.
* 1987 &ndash; The first Airbus A320 lifts off.
* 1994 &ndash; Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
* 1997 &ndash; In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
* 2004 &ndash; Ralph Nader announces his intention to run as an independent candidate for President of the United States.
* 2005 &ndash; An earthquake in Sarand, Iran, kills 420 people.
* 2006 &ndash; The Al–Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, a Shi'ite Holy Site, is badly damaged in a bomb attack.
* 2009 &ndash; *Slumdog Millionaire* is the most successful movie at the 81st Academy Awards.
* 2011 &ndash; 2011 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand, causing major damage and more than 180 deaths. Among the collapsed buildings is the spire of Christchurch cathedral.
* 2012 &ndash; A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people.
* 2014 &ndash; Matteo Renzi is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy, making him the youngest holder of this office, at age 39.
* 2014 &ndash; In Ukraine, parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from power and to install a caretaker government. Yanukovych is reported to have fled to Eastern Ukraine, while former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is released from prison.
* 2015 &ndash; A ferry capsizes in Bangladesh, killing at least 70 people.
* 2015 &ndash; The 87th Academy Awards are held. Among the winners are Julianne Moore (Best Actress) and Eddie Redmayne (Best Actor), for playing Stephen Hawking in *The Theory of Everything*.
* 2017 &ndash; Scientists announce the discovery of seven planets of similar size to Earth orbiting around the dwarf star "TRAPPIST-1".

## Births
### Up to 1850 
* 1300 BC &ndash; Ramesses II, Egyptian pharaoh (d. 1213 BC)
* 1403 &ndash; King Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
* 1440 &ndash; Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1470)
* 1500 &ndash; Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
* 1514 &ndash; Tahmasp I, Persian shah (d. 1576)
* 1631 &ndash; Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (d. 1702)
* 1645 &ndash; Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer (d. 1695)
* 1645 &ndash; Johann Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1693)
* 1705 &ndash; Peter Arbedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
* 1732 &ndash; George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
* 1756 &ndash; Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
* 1761 &ndash; Erik Tulindberg, Finnish composer (d. 1814)
* 1778 &ndash; Rembrandt Peale, American painter (d. 1860)
* 1785 &ndash; Jean Peltier, French physicist (d. 1845)
* 1788 &ndash; Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
* 1796 &ndash; Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
* 1796 &ndash; Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
* 1806 &ndash; Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (d. 1875)
* 1817 &ndash; Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
* 1819 &ndash; James Russell Lowell, American poet (d. 1891)
* 1823 &ndash; Robert B. Ogilvie, Governor of Illinois (d. 1888)
* 1824 &ndash; Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
* 1836 &ndash; Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian Sanskrit scholar and social reformer (d. 1906)
* 1840 &ndash; August Bebel, German political activist (d. 1913)
* 1847 &ndash; Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (d. 1897)
* 1849 &ndash; Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)

### 1851 &ndash; 1900 
* 1857 &ndash; Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
* 1857 &ndash; Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
* 1864 &ndash; Jakob Jakobsen, Faroese linguist (d. 1918)
* 1878 &ndash; Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
* 1879 &ndash; Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
* 1880 &ndash; Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (d. 1930)
* 1881 &ndash; Joseph B. Ely, 52nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1956)
* 1882 &ndash; Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
* 1883 &ndash; Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
* 1887 &ndash; Savielly Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
* 1888 &ndash; Owen Brewster, Governor of Maine (d. 1961)
* 1889 &ndash; Olave Baden-Powell, British co–founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977)
* 1890 &ndash; Beatriz Michelena, Latin American movie actor (d. 1942)
* 1891 &ndash; Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1937)
* 1892 &ndash; Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (d. 1950)
* 1895 &ndash; Victor Raul Haya del Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
* 1897 &ndash; Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
* 1898 &ndash; Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South African activist (d. 1914)
* 1899 &ndash; George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
* 1900 &ndash; Luis Buñuel, Spanish movie producer (d. 1983)
* 1900 &ndash; James Sisnett, Barbadian supercentenarian (d. 2013)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British mathematician (d. 1930)
* 1906 &ndash; Donald S. Russell, 107th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1998)
* 1907 &ndash; Georg Braun, Austrian footballer (d. 1963)
* 1907 &ndash; Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
* 1907 &ndash; Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
* 1908 &ndash; Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
* 1913 &ndash; Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
* 1914 &ndash; Renato Dulbecco, Italian virologist (d. 2012)
* 1917 &ndash; Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)
* 1918 &ndash; Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
* 1918 &ndash; Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
* 1918 &ndash; Don Pardo, American television and radio announcer (d. 2014)
* 1921 &ndash; Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
* 1921 &ndash; Sune Andersson, Swedish footballer (d. 2002)
* 1921 &ndash; Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
* 1921 &ndash; Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
* 1921 &ndash; David Greene, British director (d. 2003)
* 1922 &ndash; Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
* 1925 &ndash; Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
* 1925 &ndash; Cyril Leonoff, Canadian civil engineer and historian (d. 2016)
* 1925 &ndash; Gerald Stern, American poet
* 1927 &ndash; Florencio Campomanes, Filipino chess player and official (d. 2010)
* 1927 &ndash; Gus Douglass, American politician (d. 2015)
* 1928 &ndash; Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer (d. 2017)
* 1928 &ndash; Paul Dooley, American actor
* 1929 &ndash; James Hong, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
* 1930 &ndash; Giuliano Montaldo, Italian movie director
* 1930 &ndash; Bill Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
* 1930 &ndash; Marni Nixon, American singer (d. 2016)
* 1932 &ndash; Ted Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 2009)
* 1933 &ndash; Sheila Hancock, British actress
* 1933 &ndash; Katharine, Duchess of Kent
* 1934 &ndash; Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
* 1936 &ndash; J. Michael Bishop, American biologist
* 1940 &ndash; Judy Cornwell, English actress
* 1940 &ndash; Billy Name, American photographer and filmmaker (d. 2016)
* 1940 &ndash; Chet Walker, American basketball player
* 1941 &ndash; Hipolito Mejia, former President of the Dominican Republic
* 1942 &ndash; Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl (d. 2017)
* 1943 &ndash; Horst Koehler, former President of Germany
* 1944 &ndash; Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
* 1944 &ndash; Jonathan Demme, American movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
* 1945 &ndash; Leslie Charleson, English actress
* 1946 &ndash; Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer (d. 2014)
* 1947 &ndash; Maurizio De Angelis, Italian singer
* 1949 &ndash; Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
* 1949 &ndash; Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver
* 1950 &ndash; Julie Walters, British actress
* 1950 &ndash; Julius Erving, American basketball player
* 1950 &ndash; Miou-Miou, French actress

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
* 1952 &ndash; Bill Frist, United States Senator
* 1952 &ndash; Bernard Silverman, English minister, statistician and academic
* 1953 &ndash; Nigel Planer, English actor
* 1955 &ndash; David Axelrod, American political advisor
* 1956 &ndash; Philip Kerr, British author (d. 2018)
* 1958 &ndash; Dave Spitz, American musician
* 1959 &ndash; Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
* 1961 &ndash; Akira Takahashi, Japanese guitarist
* 1962 &ndash; Steve Irwin, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality (d. 2006)
* 1963 &ndash; Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
* 1963 &ndash; Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, British politician
* 1963 &ndash; Devon Malcolm, English cricketer
* 1964 &ndash; Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
* 1965 &ndash; Chris Dudley, American basketball player
* 1965 &ndash; Pat Lafontaine, American ice hockey player
* 1965 &ndash; Kieren Fallon, Irish jockey
* 1968 &ndash; Shawn Graham, Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
* 1968 &ndash; Jayson Williams, American basketball player
* 1969 &ndash; Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Clinton Kelly, American television personality
* 1972 &ndash; Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
* 1973 &ndash; Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d. 2013)
* 1973 &ndash; Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Archil Arveladze, Georgian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Shota Arveladze, Georgian footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Chris Moyles, British radio presenter
* 1974 &ndash; Markus Schopp, Austrian footballer
* 1974 &ndash; James Blunt, British singer
* 1975 &ndash; Drew Barrymore, American actress

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Jenny Frost, British singer (Atomic Kitten), TV presenter (Snog Marry Avoid?) and model
* 1979 &ndash; Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
* 1980 &ndash; Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
* 1983 &ndash; Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
* 1983 &ndash; Ragna Ingolfsdottir, Icelandic badminton player
* 1984 &ndash; Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
* 1984 &ndash; Branislav Ivanovic, Serbian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Ross Hutchins, British tennis player
* 1985 &ndash; Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model
* 1986 &ndash; Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
* 1987 &ndash; Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
* 1987 &ndash; Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Enzo Pérez, Argentine footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Efrain Juarez, Mexican footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Ximena Navarrete, Mexican model and actress
* 1989 &ndash; Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer
* 1991 &ndash; Robin Stjernberg, Swedish singer

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 556 &ndash; Maximilianus of Ravenna, Italian bishop (b. 499)
* 606 &ndash; Pope Sabinian
* 965 &ndash; Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
* 1071 &ndash; Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b. 1055)
* 1111 &ndash; Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
* 1371 &ndash; King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
* 1512 &ndash; Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
* 1627 &ndash; Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
* 1674 &ndash; Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
* 1690 &ndash; Charles Le Brun, French painter (b. 1619)
* 1727 &ndash; Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
* 1731 &ndash; Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
* 1732 &ndash; Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
* 1750 &ndash; Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1679)
* 1797 &ndash; Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
* 1799 &ndash; Heshen, Chinese official (b. 1750)
* 1816 &ndash; Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher (b. 1723)
* 1819 &ndash; Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (b. 1752)
* 1875 &ndash; Charles Lyell, British geologist (b. 1797)
* 1875 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
* 1890 &ndash; John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
* 1897 &ndash; Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker (b. 1824)
* 1898 &ndash; Haungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1903 &ndash; Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
* 1913 &ndash; Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
* 1914 &ndash; Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South African activist (b. 1898)
* 1919 &ndash; Perito Moreno, Argentine geographer and explorer (b. 1852)
* 1921 &ndash; Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
* 1923 &ndash; Théophile Delcasse, French statesman (b. 1852)
* 1927 &ndash; Judson Harmon, Governor of Ohio (b. 1846)
* 1930 &ndash; William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo (b. 1882)
* 1934 &ndash; Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
* 1939 &ndash; Antonio Machado, Spanish writer (b. 1875)
* 1942 &ndash; Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
* 1943 &ndash; White Rose Resistance Activists executed:
**Christoph Probst, German resistance activist (b. 1919)
**Hans Scholl, German resistance activist (b. 1918)
**Sophie Scholl, German resistance activist (b. 1921)
* 1944 &ndash; Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869)
* 1945 &ndash; Osip Brik, Russian author and critic (b. 1888)
* 1958 &ndash; Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
* 1961 &ndash; Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
* 1970 &ndash; Edward Selzer, American movie producer (b. 1893)
* 1973 &ndash; Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
* 1973 &ndash; Winthrop Rockefeller, American politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
* 1974 &ndash; Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
* 1976 &ndash; Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
* 1980 &ndash; Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter (b. 1886)
* 1985 &ndash; Efrem Zimbalist, American violinist and composer (b. 1889)
* 1987 &ndash; Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
* 1989 &ndash; Moises da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (b. 1938)
* 1994 &ndash; Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
* 1995 &ndash; Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
* 1998 &ndash; Donald S. Russell, 107th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1906)
* 1998 &ndash; Abraham A. Ribicoff, 80th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1910)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Roden Cutler, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916)
* 2002 &ndash; Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
* 2002 &ndash; Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (b. 1934)
* 2002 &ndash; Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
* 2004 &ndash; Roqué Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
* 2005 &ndash; Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
* 2012 &ndash; Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
* 2012 &ndash; Rémi Ochlik, French photojournalist (b. 1983)
* 2013 &ndash; Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–born Australian television personality (b. 1966)
* 2014 &ndash; Leo Vroman, Dutch–American hematologist, poet and illustrator (b. 1915)
* 2015 &ndash; Kim Kyung-roul, South Korean billiards player (b. 1980)
* 2016 &ndash; Wesley A. Clark, American computer engineer (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; Sonny James, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Hans Reffert, German musician (b. 1946)
* 2016 &ndash; Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer (b. 1913)
* 2016 &ndash; Yochanan Sofer, Hungarian–Israeli rabbi (b. 1922)
* 2016 &ndash; Cara McCollum, American journalist and beauty queen (b. 1992)
* 2016 &ndash; Cristiana Corsi, Italian taekwondo martial artist (b. 1976)
* 2016 &ndash; Yolande Fox, American beauty queen, singer and activist (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Frank Delaney, Irish author (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Ricardo Dominguez, Mexican boxer (b. 1985)
* 2017 &ndash; Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoan politician (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Aleksei Petrenko, Russian actor (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Ed Garvey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1940)
* 2017 &ndash; John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
* 2018 &ndash; Nanette Fabray, American actress and dancer (b. 1920)
* 2018 &ndash; Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942)
* 2018 &ndash; Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist (b. 1929)

## Observances 
* Independence Day (Saint Lucia)
* World Thinking Day (Girl Scouts)
* Founder's Day (Scout Movement)