July 31

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 781 &ndash; The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781)
* 904 &ndash; Thessaloniki falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
* 1009 &ndash; Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
* 1423 &ndash; Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
* 1492 &ndash; Jews are expelled from Spain, when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
* 1498 &ndash; On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to land on the island of Trinidad.
* 1588 &ndash; The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
* 1655 &ndash; Russo-Polish War of 1654 to 1667: The Russian army enters the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
* 1658 &ndash; Aurangzeb is proclaimed Mughal Emperor of India.
* 1667 &ndash; The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam gets tranferred to British control, being renamed New York. The Dutch get the previously British colony in present–day Suriname.
* 1703 &ndash; Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
* 1712 &ndash; Great Northern War: Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea, with an inconclusive result.
* 1715 &ndash; An 11–ship Spanish treasure fleet is lost in a hurricane between the Florida Keys and Havana, Cuba, killing at least 1,000 people.
* 1741 &ndash; Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
* 1763 &ndash; Pontiac's War: The Odawa Chief Pontiac's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run.
* 1790 &ndash; First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
* 1856 &ndash; Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city.
* 1865 &ndash; The first Narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; With hot–air balloon *Preussen*, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Suering reach a record height of 10,800 meters.
* 1913 &ndash; The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
* 1914 &ndash; French Socialist politician Jean Jaurès is assassinated in a Paris café by the Nationalist Raoul Villain.
* 1917 &ndash; The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
* 1919 &ndash; German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
* 1930 &ndash; The radio mystery program *The Shadow* airs for the first time.
* 1932 &ndash; Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party wins over 38% of the vote in German elections.
* 1936 &ndash; The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
* 1941 &ndash; Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
* 1945 &ndash; Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
* 1948 &ndash; At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1951 &ndash; Japan Airlines is established.
* 1954 &ndash; First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, also involving Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. The lack of credit given to Walter Bonatti causes a lot of controversy in the years to come.
* 1956 &ndash; Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen.
* 1961 &ndash; At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
* 1964 &ndash; Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close–up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth–bound telescopes).
* 1969 &ndash; The Mariner 6 probe flies by Mars and sends photographs to Earth.
* 1971 &ndash; Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
* 1973 &ndash; A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
* 1975 &ndash; In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
* 1976 &ndash; NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
* 1976 &ndash; Flooding on the Big Thompson River in Colorado kills 143 people.
* 1977 &ndash; David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer, carries out his last murder, shooting Stacey Moskowitz.
* 1981 &ndash; A 7–week strike by Major League Baseball players ends.
* 1987 &ndash; A rare, class F–4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
* 1988 &ndash; 32 people are killed when a bridge collapses in Penang, Malaysia.
* 1991 &ndash; The United States and Soviet Union sign the START I arms reduction treaty.
* 1991 &ndash; A Soviet OMON attacks a Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai.
* 1992 &ndash; China General Aviation flight 7552 crashes at take–off from Nanking, to Xiamen.
* 1992 &ndash; A Thai Airways Airbus A300–310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113.
* 1992 &ndash; The Republic of Georgia joins the United Nations.
* 1996 &ndash; MIL–STD–1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
* 1998 &ndash; The United Kingdom imposes a total landmine ban.
* 1999 &ndash; NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
* 2000 &ndash; The Knesset (Israeli parliament) chooses Moshe Katsav as the next President.

### From 2001 
* 2006 &ndash; Fidel Castro transfers power in Cuba to his brother Raul Castro.
* 2007 &ndash; Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest–running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
* 2008 &ndash; Scientists report that the Phoenix spacecraft had confirmed the presence of frozen water on the planet Mars.
* 2012 &ndash; Michael Phelps beats Larisa Latynina's record number of Olympic medals.
* 2013 &ndash; Zimbabwe holds a Presidential election. The main candidates are long–time President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party claims a landslide victory, but Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change declares the election null and void on the grounds of vote–rigging.
* 2014 &ndash; Shortly before midnight, gas explosions occur in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killing at least 26 people.
* 2015 &ndash; Beijing is given the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
* 2017 &ndash; Los Angeles, California, volunteers to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, effectively giving the 2024 Summer Olympics to Paris.
* 2017 &ndash; US President Donald Trump fires White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, only ten days after giving him the job.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1143 &ndash; Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)
* 1396 &ndash; Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
* 1443 &ndash; Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
* 1526 &ndash; Augustus, Elector of Saxony (d. 1586)
* 1527 &ndash; Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
* 1598 &ndash; Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654)
* 1702 &ndash; Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768)
* 1704 &ndash; Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752)
* 1718 &ndash; John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772)
* 1720 &ndash; Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, French soldier and statesman (d. 1788)
* 1724 &ndash; Noël-François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)
* 1737 &ndash; Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813) (sources vary between July 31 and August 31)
* 1777 &ndash; Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849)
* 1800 &ndash; Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (d. 1882)
* 1803 &ndash; John Ericsson, Swedish engineer (d. 1889)
* 1804 &ndash; George Baxter, English engraver and printer (d. 1867)
* 1812 &ndash; Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Empress of Brazil (d. 1873)
* 1816 &ndash; Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1867)
* 1816 &ndash; George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870)
* 1822 &ndash; Abram Stevens Hewitt, Mayor of New York City (d. 1903)
* 1824 &ndash; Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1890)
* 1825 &ndash; William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1885)
* 1826 &ndash; George Hoadly, 36th Governor of Ohio (d. 1902)
* 1828 &ndash; François-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (d. 1908)
* 1831 &ndash; Ilya Ulyanov, Russian teacher and father of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1886)
* 1835 &ndash; Henri Brisson, French politician (d. 1912)
* 1839 &ndash; Ignacio Andrade, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
* 1843 &ndash; Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918)
* 1847 &ndash; Ignacio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
* 1854 &ndash; José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
* 1858 &ndash; Richard Dixon Oldham, English geologist (d. 1936)
* 1863 &ndash; Sidney Johnston Catts, 22nd Governor of Florida (d. 1936)
* 1875 &ndash; Jacques Villon, French painter and printmaker (d. 1963)
* 1875 &ndash; Kunio Yanagita, Japanese scholar (d. 1962)
* 1877 &ndash; Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (d. 1970)
* 1880 &ndash; Munshi Premchand, Indian writer (d. 1936)
* 1886 &ndash; Fred Quimby, American movie producer (d. 1965)
* 1886 &ndash; Harry Tate, American soccer player (d. 1954)
* 1892 &ndash; Joseph Charbonneau, French–Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959)
* 1892 &ndash; Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 1986)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
* 1902 &ndash; Gubby Allen, Australian–English cricketer (d. 1989)
* 1904 &ndash; John Carberry, American cardinal (d. 1998)
* 1907 &ndash; Roy Milton, American jump blues singer, drummer and bandleader (d. 1983)
* 1908 &ndash; Franz Meyers, German politician (d. 2002)
* 1911 &ndash; George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
* 1912 &ndash; Milton Friedman, American economist (d. 2006)
* 1912 &ndash; Irv Kupcinet, American columnist (d. 2003)
* 1913 &ndash; Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
* 1914 &ndash; Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (d. 1983)
* 1914 &ndash; Mario Bava, Italian movie director, cameraman and screenwriter (d. 1980)
* 1914 &ndash; Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance activist (d. 2012)
* 1916 &ndash; Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
* 1918 &ndash; Paul D. Boyer, American chemist (d. 2018)
* 1918 &ndash; Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010)
* 1919 &ndash; Primo Levi, Italian writer and chemist (d. 1987)
* 1919 &ndash; Robert Morgenthau, American lawyer (d. 2019)
* 1921 &ndash; Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
* 1922 &ndash; Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
* 1923 &ndash; Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish–born record company executive (d. 2006)
* 1923 &ndash; Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
* 1923 &ndash; Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist, engineer and inventor of Kevlar (d. 2014)
* 1926 &ndash; Hilary Putnam, American philosopher (d. 2016)
* 1927 &ndash; Bunny Carr, Irish television presenter (d. 2018)
* 1928 &ndash; Bill Frenzel, American politician (d. 2014)
* 1929 &ndash; Don Murray, American actor
* 1929 &ndash; José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer
* 1930 &ndash; Oleg Popov, Russian clown (d. 2016)
* 1931 &ndash; Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach
* 1931 &ndash; Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008)
* 1932 &ndash; Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
* 1932 &ndash; John Searle, American philosopher
* 1932 &ndash; Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (d. 2016)
* 1933 &ndash; Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer
* 1935 &ndash; Yvon Deschamps, Canadian comedian, actor and author
* 1935 &ndash; Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1937 &ndash; Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (d. 2017)
* 1938 &ndash; Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (d. 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (d. 2015)
* 1939 &ndash; France Nuyen, French actress
* 1940 &ndash; Roy Walker, Irish comedian, actor and television host
* 1941 &ndash; Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004)
* 1943 &ndash; Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1943 &ndash; William Bennett, American politician
* 1944 &ndash; Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and TV presenter
* 1944 &ndash; Robert C. Merton, American economist
* 1944 &ndash; Geraldine Chaplin, American–British actress
* 1944 &ndash; David Norris, Irish scholar, senator and activist
* 1945 &ndash; William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
* 1947 &ndash; Richard Griffiths, British actor (d. 2013)
* 1947 &ndash; Hubert Védrine, French politician
* 1948 &ndash; Russell Morris, Australian singer
* 1950 &ndash; Richard Berry, French actor, director and singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player
* 1951 &ndash; Barry Van Dyke, American actor
* 1952 &ndash; Alan Autry, American football player, actor and politician
* 1952 &ndash; Helmuts Balderis, Latvian ice hockey player
* 1952 &ndash; Faye Kellerman, American author
* 1953 &ndash; Ted Baillieu, Australian politician
* 1956 &ndash; Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
* 1956 &ndash; Mark Arden, British actor
* 1956 &ndash; Michael Biehn, American actor and movie producer
* 1957 &ndash; Mark Thompson, English media executive, former Director–General of the BBC
* 1957 &ndash; Daniel Ash, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1958 &ndash; Bill Berry, American musician in band R.E.M.
* 1959 &ndash; Andrew Marr, British broadcast journalist
* 1959 &ndash; Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
* 1960 &ndash; Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1961 &ndash; Frank Gardner, English journalist and correspondent
* 1961 &ndash; Peter O'Brien, American drummer (Orleans)
* 1962 &ndash; Jackie Bird, Scottish broadcast journalist
* 1962 &ndash; Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist
* 1962 &ndash; Wesley Snipes, American actor
* 1963 &ndash; Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1963 &ndash; Fatboy Slim, English DJ and musician
* 1964 &ndash; Wendell Alexis, American basketball player
* 1964 &ndash; Jean-Paul Vonderburg, Swedish footballer
* 1964 &ndash; Jim Corr, Irish musician
* 1965 &ndash; J. K. Rowling, British writer (Harry Potter)
* 1965 &ndash; Pat Finn, American actor
* 1965 &ndash; Scott Brooks, American basketball coach
* 1965 &ndash; Mario Von Appen, German canoeist
* 1966 &ndash; Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
* 1966 &ndash; Yoshiyuki Matsuyama, Japanese footballer
* 1966 &ndash; Dean Cain, American actor
* 1966 &ndash; Valdas Ivanauskas, Lithuanian footballer and football manager
* 1967 &ndash; Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
* 1969 &ndash; Antonio Conte, Italian footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Loren Dean, American actor
* 1970 &ndash; Ben Chaplin, English actor
* 1971 &ndash; Christina Cox, Canadian actress
* 1971 &ndash; Elivélton, Brazilian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Jacob Aagaard, Danish–Scottish chess player
* 1973 &ndash; Abdulaziz Khathron, Saudi Arabian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Wail al-Shehri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
* 1974 &ndash; Emilia Fox, British actress
* 1975 &ndash; Ruben Patterson, American basketball player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay)
* 1978 &ndash; Justin Wilson, English racing driver (d. 2015)
* 1978 &ndash; Zac Brown, American country music singer
* 1979 &ndash; Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer
* 1979 &ndash; B. J. Novak, American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
* 1980 &ndash; Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player
* 1981 &ndash; Clemente Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Titus Bramble, English footballer
* 1981 &ndash; M. Shadows, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
* 1982 &ndash; Hayuma Tanaka, Japanese footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Mira Craig, Norwegian singer
* 1982 &ndash; Michael Jung, German equestrian
* 1982 &ndash; DeMarcus Ware, American football player
* 1984 &ndash; Joseph Benavidez, American mixed martial artist
* 1985 &ndash; Alissa White-Gluz, Canadian singer
* 1986 &ndash; Shinzo Koroki, Japanese footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Michael Bradley, American footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Brittany Byrnes, American actress
* 1988 &ndash; Krystal Meyers, American singer-songwriter
* 1988 &ndash; Michelle Sabogal, Colombian actress
* 1989 &ndash; Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
* 1989 &ndash; Zelda Williams, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Besart Abdurahimi, Macedonian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Lizzy, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
* 1992 &ndash; Kyle Larson, American racing driver
* 1996 &ndash; Blake Michael, American actor, director and producer
* 2000 &ndash; Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 54 BC &ndash; Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
* 855 &ndash; Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Arab scholar and theologian (b. 780)
* 1099 &ndash; El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
* 1396 &ndash; William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1508 &ndash; Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
* 1556 &ndash; Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuits (b. 1491)
* 1726 &ndash; Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1695)
* 1750 &ndash; King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
* 1784 &ndash; Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
* 1805 &ndash; Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian soldier (b. 1756)
* 1849 &ndash; Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet (b. 1823)
* 1875 &ndash; Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
* 1884 &ndash; Kien Phuc, Vietnamese Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty (b. 1869)
* 1886 &ndash; Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1914 &ndash; Jean Jaurès, French politician (b. 1859)
* 1917 &ndash; Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881)
* 1920 &ndash; Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (b. 1878)
* 1929 &ndash; José de Castro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1868)
* 1940 &ndash; Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1899)
* 1944 &ndash; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer disappeared (b. 1900)
* 1952 &ndash; Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (b. 1880)
* 1953 &ndash; Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)
* 1966 &ndash; Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
* 1969 &ndash; Charles Edison, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1890)
* 1971 &ndash; Walter P. Carter, American activist (b. 1923)
* 1972 &ndash; Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
* 1973 &ndash; Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1921)
* 1980 &ndash; Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
* 1980 &ndash; Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
* 1981 &ndash; Omar Torrijos, military leader of Panama (b. 1929)
* 1986 &ndash; Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
* 1990 &ndash; Albert Leduc, French–Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
* 1993 &ndash; King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Poul Anderson, science fiction writer (b. 1926)
* 2001 &ndash; Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
* 2003 &ndash; Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (b. 1933)
* 2004 &ndash; Laura Betti, Italian actress and singer (b. 1927)
* 2004 &ndash; Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2005 &ndash; Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker and economist (b. 1935)
* 2009 &ndash; Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
* 2010 &ndash; Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter (b. 1914)
* 2010 &ndash; Mitch Miller, American entertainer (b. 1911)
* 2011 &ndash; Eliseo Alberto, Cuban–Mexican writer (b. 1951)
* 2012 &ndash; Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1924)
* 2012 &ndash; Gore Vidal, American writer (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; John Graves, American writer (b. 1920)
* 2013 &ndash; Michael Ansara, Syrian–American actor (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Jorge Jacobson, Argentine journalist (b. 1936)
* 2014 &ndash; Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor (b. 1945)
* 2014 &ndash; Warren Bennis, American scholar and academic (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Mukku Raju, Indian actor (b. 1931)
* 2014 &ndash; Nabarun Bhattacharya, Indian author (b. 1948)
* 2015 &ndash; Billy Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
* 2015 &ndash; Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
* 2015 &ndash; Howard W. Jones, American physician (b. 1910)
* 2015 &ndash; Richard Schweiker, American politician (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
* 2016 &ndash; Fazil Iskander, Abkhazian writer (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Seymour Papert, South African–American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Destin Onka Malonga, Congolese footballer (b. 1988)
* 2017 &ndash; Liu Wen-hsiung, Taiwanese politician (b. 1954)
* 2017 &ndash; Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Les Murray, Hungarian–Australian broadcaster (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; Francesco La Macchia, Italian sprint canoeist (b. 1938)
* 2018 &ndash; Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
* 2018 &ndash; Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (b. 1949)
* 2018 &ndash; Bassano Staffieri, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
* 2019 &ndash; Harold Prince, American theatre director and producer (b. 1928)

## Observances 
* Ka Hae Hawaii Day
* Ignatius of Loyola (Roman Catholicism)