April 6

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 648 BC &ndash; Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
* 46 BC &ndash; Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipo and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 &ndash; Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
* 1199 &ndash; Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. His brother, John of England, succeeds him.
* 1250 &ndash; Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids in Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
* 1320 &ndash; The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
* 1327 &ndash; The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire in Avignon.
* 1385 &ndash; John I of Portugal becomes King.
* 1453 &ndash; Mehmed II begins his Siege of Constantinople.
* 1580 &ndash; Areas around the English Channel experience once of their strongest earthquakes, at an estimated magnitude of over 5. It affects Southeastern England, Northern France and present–day Belgium.
* 1652 &ndash; Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
* 1667 &ndash; Dubrovnik is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 5,000 people.
* 1782 &ndash; Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
* 1793 &ndash; During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
* 1808 &ndash; John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
* 1812 &ndash; British forces under command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington assault the fortress at Badajoz, near the Spain–Portugal border, marking a turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon Bonaparte–led France.
* 1814 &ndash; Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the Italian island of Elba.
* 1815 &ndash; Geneva becomes the 22nd canton of Switzerland.
* 1830 &ndash; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette, New York.
* 1832 &ndash; Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins – The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
* 1841 &ndash; John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins – In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.
* 1865 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 1869 &ndash; Celluloid is patented.
* 1886 &ndash; Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.
* 1893 &ndash; Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
* 1895 &ndash; Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
* 1896 &ndash; In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1903 &ndash; The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.
* 1909 &ndash; Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
* 1911 &ndash; Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: United States declares war on Germany
* 1919 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi orders a general strike in India.
* 1924 &ndash; The first round–the–world flight begins.
* 1926 &ndash; Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, Washington, to Elko, Nevada. Varney is the root company of United Airlines.
* 1930 &ndash; Gandhi raised a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he started Salt Satyagraha.
* 1930 &ndash; Hostess Twinkies are invented.
* 1930 &ndash; Will Rogers starts broadcasting *The Will Rogers Program* on radio.
* 1931 &ndash; *Little Orphan Annie* debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
* 1936 &ndash; Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: Operation Castigo begins – Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Yugoslavian Partisans liberate Sarajevo from German and Croatian forces.
* 1947 &ndash; The first Tony Awards are presented for achievement in theatre.
* 1965 &ndash; Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit, is launched.
* 1968 &ndash; In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la."
* 1970 &ndash; Four California Highway Patrol officers die in one of the worst cop killings in the CHP's history; this is known as the Newhall Incident.
* 1972 &ndash; Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
* 1973 &ndash; Launch of *Pioneer 11* spacecraft.
* 1974 &ndash; The California Jam Rock concert begins.
* 1974 &ndash; In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo."
* 1984 &ndash; Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard from country's northern region attack various government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
* 1987 &ndash; Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
* 1993 &ndash; Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
* 1994 &ndash; The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down, responsibility is disputed.
* 1998 &ndash; Pakistan tests medium–range missiles capable of hitting India.
* 1998 &ndash; The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 49.82 to close at 9,033.23 – its first–ever close above 9,000.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Miller Park opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* 2004 &ndash; Rolandas Paksas becomes the first President of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
* 2005 &ndash; Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies, at the age of 81 years. His son succeeds him as Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
* 2005 &ndash; Jalal Talabani becomes President of Iraq.
* 2006 &ndash; Boni Yayi becomes President of Benin.
* 2009 &ndash; A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes near L'Aquila in central Italy, killing around 300 people, mainly as a result of collapsing buildings.
* 2011 &ndash; In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 300 bodies are exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
* 2012 &ndash; Rebel groups declare an independent state called Azawad in northern Mali, which is not internationally recognized as independent.
* 2016 &ndash; Emmanuel Macron starts his bid to become President of France.
* 2018 &ndash; South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye is sentenced to 24 years in prison on corruption charges.
* 2018 &ndash; A bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team crashes en route to a match in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 14 people.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 1483 &ndash; Raphael, Italian painter (d. 1520)
* 1632 &ndash; Maria Leopoldine of Austria (d. 1649)
* 1660 &ndash; Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist (d. 1722)
* 1664 &ndash; Arvid Horn, Swedish politician (d. 1742)
* 1671 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
* 1706 &ndash; Louis de Cahusac, French playwright (d. 1759)
* 1725 &ndash; Pascuale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
* 1726 &ndash; Gerard Majella, Italian saint (d. 1755)
* 1732 &ndash; José Celestino Mutis, Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician (d. 1808)
* 1741 &ndash; Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
* 1765 &ndash; Charles Felix of Sardinia (d. 1831)
* 1773 &ndash; James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
* 1801 &ndash; William Hallowes Miller, Welsh mineralogist (d. 1880)
* 1802 &ndash; Thomas Walker Gilmer, Governor of Virginia (d. 1844)
* 1812 &ndash; Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1870)
* 1815 &ndash; Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
* 1818 &ndash; Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
* 1820 &ndash; Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
* 1823 &ndash; Joseph Metill, American publisher and politician (d. 1899)
* 1824 &ndash; George Marsden Waterhouse, Premier of South Australia and 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
* 1826 &ndash; Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
* 1839 &ndash; Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
* 1841 &ndash; Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
* 1849 &ndash; John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
* 1851 &ndash; Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
* 1857 &ndash; Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter (d. 1922)
* 1860 &ndash; René Lalique, French glass designer (d. 1945)
* 1861 &ndash; Stanislas de Guaita, French poet (d. 1897)
* 1864 &ndash; William Bate Hardy, English biochemist (d. 1934)
* 1866 &ndash; Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (d. 1931)
* 1869 &ndash; Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet (d. 1951)
* 1878 &ndash; Erich Mühsam, German writer (d. 1934)
* 1881 &ndash; Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete (d. 1953)
* 1884 &ndash; Walter Huston, Canadian–born actor (d. 1950)
* 1886 &ndash; Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d. 1972)
* 1888 &ndash; Hans Richter, Swiss painter, movie maker and graphic artist (d. 1976)
* 1890 &ndash; Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer (d. 1939)
* 1892 &ndash; Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist (d. 1981)
* 1892 &ndash; Lowell Thomas, American writer (d. 1981)
* 1893 &ndash; Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (d. 1917)
* 1894 &ndash; Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
* 1898 &ndash; Jeanne Hebuterne, French artist (d. 1920)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
* 1903 &ndash; Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer (d. 1990)
* 1904 &ndash; Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)
* 1910 &ndash; Barys Kit, Belarussian–American rocket scientist (d. 2018)
* 1911 &ndash; Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (d. 1979)
* 1915 &ndash; Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (d. 1990)
* 1917 &ndash; Leonora Carrington, British–Mexican painter and writer (d. 2011)
* 1918 &ndash; Alfredo Ovando Candia, President of Bolivia (d. 1982)
* 1918 &ndash; Big Walter Horton, American blues musician (d. 1981)
* 1920 &ndash; Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss–American biochemist
* 1920 &ndash; Jack Cover, American inventor of the taser gun (d. 2009)
* 1921 &ndash; Heinrich Schmid, Swiss linguist (d. 1999)
* 1925 &ndash; Helga Deen, victim of the Holocaust (d. 1943)
* 1926 &ndash; Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1990)
* 1926 &ndash; Gil Kane, Latvian–born cartoonist (d. 2000)
* 1926 &ndash; Ian Paisley, Northern Irish minister and politician (d. 2014)
* 1926 &ndash; Alexander Butterfield, American political figure
* 1927 &ndash; Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger (d. 1996)
* 1928 &ndash; James D. Watson, American geneticist
* 1929 &ndash; André Previn, German–born American musician (d. 2019)
* 1931 &ndash; Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu teacher
* 1931 &ndash; Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; Eduardo Malapit, American politician (d. 2007)
* 1934 &ndash; Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010)
* 1934 &ndash; Mario Merola, Italian singer
* 1937 &ndash; Merle Haggard, American musician (d. 2016)
* 1937 &ndash; Billy Dee Williams, American actor
* 1937 &ndash; Terrence Hardiman, English actor
* 1937 &ndash; Peter Maivia, American Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982)
* 1938 &ndash; Paul Daniels, English magician (d. 2016)
* 1938 &ndash; Roy Thinnes, American actor
* 1939 &ndash; André Ouellet, French–Canadian politician
* 1939 &ndash; John Sculley, American businessman
* 1940 &ndash; Pedro Armendariz, Jr., American actor (d. 2011)
* 1941 &ndash; Phil Austin, American comedian and writer (d. 2014)
* 1942 &ndash; Barry Levinson, American director
* 1943 &ndash; Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist
* 1944 &ndash; Felicity Palmer, English soprano
* 1944 &ndash; Anita Pallenberg, Italian–English model, actress and fashion designer (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Charles Sobhraj, Vietnamese–Indian serial killer
* 1947 &ndash; John Ratzenberger, American actor
* 1947 &ndash; Mike Warboys, English mathematician
* 1949 &ndash; Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter
* 1949 &ndash; Horst Ludwig Stoermer, German physicist
* 1950 &ndash; Christer Sjögren, Swedish singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer and pilot (d. 1990)
* 1952 &ndash; Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
* 1952 &ndash; Marilu Henner, American actress
* 1952 &ndash; Udo Dirkschneider, German musician
* 1953 &ndash; Christopher Franke, German–American drummer and songwriter
* 1955 &ndash; Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician
* 1955 &ndash; Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian–American serial killer
* 1956 &ndash; Michele Bachmann, American politician
* 1957 &ndash; Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
* 1957 &ndash; Maurizio Damilano, Italian athlete
* 1960 &ndash; Warren Haynes, American musician
* 1961 &ndash; Rory Bremner, British comedian
* 1963 &ndash; Rafael Correa, former President of Ecuador
* 1964 &ndash; David Woodard, American writer and conductor
* 1965 &ndash; Amedeo Carboni, Italian footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Black Francis, American singer-songwriter
* 1967 &ndash; Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten–pin bowler
* 1967 &ndash; Tanya Byron, English psychologist
* 1967 &ndash; Julian Anderson, English composer and educator
* 1969 &ndash; Paul Rudd, American actor
* 1969 &ndash; Louie Spence, British dancer and choreographer
* 1969 &ndash; Bison Dele, American basketball player (d. 2002)
* 1970 &ndash; Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
* 1971 &ndash; Martin Hansson, Swedish football referee
* 1972 &ndash; Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and movie director
* 1973 &ndash; Donnie Edwards, former American football linebacker, philanthropist, television personality, actor, and executive producer
* 1973 &ndash; Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress
* 1974 &ndash; Robert Kovac, Croatian footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Camilla Dallerup, Danish–British dancer
* 1974 &ndash; Gina Yashere, British comedienne
* 1975 &ndash; Zach Braff, American actor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Candace Cameron, American actress
* 1976 &ndash; James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor
* 1976 &ndash; Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
* 1978 &ndash; Igor Semshov, Russian footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Myleene Klass, English singer
* 1981 &ndash; Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Herculez Gomez, American soccer player
* 1982 &ndash; Alana Austin, American actress
* 1982 &ndash; Miguel Angel Silvestre, Spanish actor
* 1982 &ndash; Bret Harrison, American actor
* 1983 &ndash; Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Remi Nicole, English singer, songwriter and actor
* 1983 &ndash; Katie Weatherston, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1983 &ndash; Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress
* 1984 &ndash; Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director and producer
* 1985 &ndash; Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and coach
* 1986 &ndash; Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Robin Haase, Dutch tennis player
* 1988 &ndash; Fabrice Muamba, English–Congolese footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Charlie McDermott, American actor
* 1991 &ndash; Alexandra Popp, German footballer
* 1995 &ndash; Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
* 1998 &ndash; Peyton List, American actress
* 1998 &ndash; Spencer List, American actor
* 1999 &ndash; Kwesi Boakye, American actor
* 2000 &ndash; CJ Adams, American actor

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 885 &ndash; Saint Methodius (b. 815)
* 1147 &ndash; Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
* 1199 &ndash; King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
* 1490 &ndash; Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
* 1520 &ndash; Raphael, Italian painter (b. 1483)
* 1528 &ndash; Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
* 1551 &ndash; Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
* 1782 &ndash; Taksin, King of Siam (b. 1734)
* 1790 &ndash; Louis IX, Margrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
* 1825 &ndash; Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
* 1829 &ndash; Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
* 1838 &ndash; Jose Bonifacio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
* 1860 &ndash; James Kirke Paulding, American writer and politician (b. 1778)
* 1865 &ndash; Antonio Pinto Soares, Costa Rican politician (b. 1780)
* 1883 &ndash; Benjamin Wright Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
* 1886 &ndash; William Edward Foster, English industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1818)
* 1899 &ndash; Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1906 &ndash; Alexander Kielland, Norwegian writer (b. 1845)
* 1917 &ndash; Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (b. 1893)
* 1933 &ndash; Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American writer and widow of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
* 1950 &ndash; Louis Wilkins, American athlete (b. 1882)
* 1953 &ndash; Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
* 1961 &ndash; Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
* 1963 &ndash; Otto Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1897)
* 1970 &ndash; Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
* 1971 &ndash; Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
* 1972 &ndash; Heinrich Lübke, second President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1894)
* 1974 &ndash; Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman (b. 1895)
* 1992 &ndash; Isaac Asimov, Russian–born writer (b. 1920)
* 1994 &ndash; Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
* 1994 &ndash; Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
* 1996 &ndash; Greer Garson, British actress (b. 1904)
* 1998 &ndash; Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
* 1998 &ndash; Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
* 2000 &ndash; Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
* 2003 &ndash; Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
* 2004 &ndash; Victor Argo, American movie actor (b. 1934)
* 2005 &ndash; Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
* 2006 &ndash; Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat (b. 1917)
* 2007 &ndash; Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
* 2010 &ndash; Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
* 2012 &ndash; Fang Lizhi, Chinese activist (b. 1936)
* 2012 &ndash; Thomas Kinkade, American painter (b. 1958)
* 2013 &ndash; Hilda Bynoe, 2nd Governor of Grenada (b. 1921)
* 2013 &ndash; Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
* 2013 &ndash; Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Mary Anderson, American actress (b. 1918)
* 2014 &ndash; Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer (b. 1943)
* 2014 &ndash; Chuck Stone, American navigator (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Mickey Rooney, American actor (b. 1920)
* 2015 &ndash; Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)
* 2015 &ndash; Dave Ulliott, English poker player (b. 1954)
* 2015 &ndash; Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; James Best, American actor (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Romualdas Ozolas, Lithuanian politician (b. 1939)
* 2015 &ndash; Giovanni Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1918)
* 2015 &ndash; Ben Powers, American actor (b. 1950)
* 2015 &ndash; Hardijs Baumanis, Latvian diplomat (b. 1967)
* 2015 &ndash; John Papit, American football player (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Merle Haggard, American musician (b. 1937)
* 2016 &ndash; Darrell Hogan, American football player (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Bob Cerv, American baseball player (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; Armand Gatti, Monegasque–French playwright, filmmaker and journalist (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; David Peel, American musician and political activist (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Jerzy Vetulani, Polish neuroscientist (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Daniel Akaka, American politician, United States Senator for Hawaii (b. 1924)
* 2018 &ndash; Daniel Chavarria, Uruguayan–Cuban author (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Jacques Higelin, French singer (b. 1940)
* 2018 &ndash; Donald McKayle, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Henryk Skolimowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Jim Glaser, American country music singer (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Fritz Hollings, American politician, United States Senator and 106th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1922)
* 2019 &ndash; Lloyd McDermott, Australian rugby union player and barrister (b. 1939)
* 2019 &ndash; David J. Thouless, Scottish physicist (b. 1934)
* 2020 &ndash; Al Kaline, American baseball player (b. 1934)

## Observances 
* Tartan Day (Canada and United States)
* Chakri Day (Thailand)