January 10

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 49 BC &ndash; Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
* 9 &ndash; Beginning of the Xin dynasty in China.
* 69 &ndash; Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as Deputy Roman Emperor.
* 236 &ndash; Fabian became Pope.
* 1072 &ndash; Robert Guiscard conquered Palermo.
* 1475 &ndash; Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
* 1776 &ndash; Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
* 1806 &ndash; Dutch in Cape Town surrendered to the British.
* 1810 &ndash; The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais is annulled.
* 1821 &ndash; Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered an island near Antarctica which he names Tsar Peter I Island.
* 1840 &ndash; Isaac Pitman introduced long–distance learning; his students are able to send him their work by post.
* 1861 &ndash; Florida seceded from the United States.
* 1863 &ndash; The first section of the London Underground Railway opened (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
* 1870 &ndash; John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1901 &ndash; The first great Texas gusher – oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
* 1910 &ndash; British passenger ship *Loodiana* disappeared off Port Louis, Mauritius – a mystery that has not been solved to–date.
* 1916 &ndash; World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire.
* 1920 &ndash; League of Nations held its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
* 1922 &ndash; Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
* 1923 &ndash; Lithuania seized and annexed Memel.
* 1927 &ndash; The movie *Metropolis* by Fritz Lang premiered.
* 1929 &ndash; Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, made his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
* 1941 &ndash; Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
* 1946 &ndash; First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. 51 nations are represented.
* 1946 &ndash; The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
* 1954 &ndash; BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 aircraft, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea off Italy, killing 35 people.
* 1957 &ndash; Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* 1962 &ndash; NASA announces plans to build what would become the Saturn V rocket.
* 1964 &ndash; Panama temporarily breaks off diplomatic relations with the United States. These are restored on April 3.
* 1969 &ndash; After 147 years, the last issue of the *Saturday Evening Post* is published.
* 1971 &ndash; *Masterpiece Theatre* debuts on PBS.
* 1972 &ndash; Sheikh Mujibur Rahman becomes President of Bangladesh.
* 1984 &ndash; The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
* 1985 &ndash; Daniel Ortega becomes President of Nicaragua.
* 1989 &ndash; Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
* 1990 &ndash; Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
* 2000 &ndash; America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Wikipedia started as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
* 2005 &ndash; A ban on smoking in public places came into force in Italy.
* 2005 &ndash; A mudslide occurred in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people.
* 2007 &ndash; Daniel Ortega became President of Nicaragua for the second time.
* 2011 &ndash; 2010-2011 Queensland floods: Severe flooding occurred in the Lockyer Valley around Toowoomba, Queensland.
* 2013 &ndash; Over 100 people are killed in bomb attacks in Pakistan.
* 2015 &ndash; A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was contaminated by crocodile bile. 56 people died and 200 hospitalized.
* 2015 &ndash; A traffic accident near Karachi, Pakistan, between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach killed 62 people.
* 2016 &ndash; Singer, musician and actor David Bowie died of cancer two days after his 69th birthday.

## Births
### Up to 1800 
* 1479 &ndash; Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist (d. 1552)
* 1480 &ndash; Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
* 1493 &ndash; Miklos Olah, Hungarian archbishop (d. 1568)
* 1538 &ndash; Louise of Nassau (d. 1574)
* 1573 &ndash; Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
* 1607 &ndash; Isaac Joques, French priest and missionary (d. 1646)
* 1628 &ndash; George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
* 1654 &ndash; Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
* 1702 &ndash; Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
* 1715 &ndash; Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
* 1729 &ndash; Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
* 1738 &ndash; Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
* 1741 &ndash; Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759)
* 1750 &ndash; Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
* 1780 &ndash; Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857)
* 1797 &ndash; Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer and composer (d. 1848)
* 1799 &ndash; Petrache Poenaru, Romanian revolutionary, engineer and mathematician (d. 1875)

### 1801&ndash;1900 
* 1803 &ndash; Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Prussian politician and Prime Minister (d. 1890)
* 1810 &ndash; Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)
* 1810 &ndash; Jeremiah S. Black, 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
* 1812 &ndash; Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
* 1834 &ndash; John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, politician and writer (d. 1902)
* 1835 &ndash; Fukuzawa Yukichi, Japanese writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist (d. 1901)
* 1836 &ndash; Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
* 1840 &ndash; Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
* 1842 &ndash; Luigi Pigorini, Italian archaeologist and ethnologist (d. 1925)
* 1843 &ndash; Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
* 1847 &ndash; Jacob Schiff, American banker, businessman and philanthropist (d. 1920)
* 1848 &ndash; Reinhold Sadler, Prussian–born 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
* 1850 &ndash; John Welborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
* 1858 &ndash; Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1925)
* 1859 &ndash; Francesc Ferrer i Guardia, Catalan free thinker (d. 1909)
* 1864 &ndash; Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
* 1865 &ndash; Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
* 1873 &ndash; George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
* 1875 &ndash; Issai Schur, German mathematician (d. 1941)
* 1879 &ndash; Bobby Walker, Scottish footballer (d. 1930)
* 1880 &ndash; Manuel Azaña, Spanish politician (d. 1940)
* 1881 &ndash; Leslie Rainey, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1962)
* 1883 &ndash; Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1945)
* 1883 &ndash; Nadezhda Udaltsova, Russian artist (d. 1961)
* 1887 &ndash; Robinson Jeffers, American poet, dramatist and natural philosopher (d. 1962)
* 1890 &ndash; Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
* 1890 &ndash; Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)
* 1891 &ndash; Louis A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1966)
* 1893 &ndash; Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (d. 1948)
* 1898 &ndash; Katharine Burr Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)

### 1901&ndash;1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Henning von Tresckow, German general and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
* 1903 &ndash; Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
* 1905 &ndash; Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor and director (d. 1993)
* 1908 &ndash; Bernard Lee, British actor (d. 1981)
* 1910 &ndash; Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
* 1911 &ndash; Prince Carl Bernadotte, Swedish royal (d. 2003)
* 1912 &ndash; Maria Mandl, Austrian Concentration camp overseer, convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 1948)
* 1913 &ndash; Gustav Husak, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
* 1913 &ndash; Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
* 1914 &ndash; Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
* 1915 &ndash; Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
* 1916 &ndash; Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist (d. 2004)
* 1916 &ndash; Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
* 1917 &ndash; Jerry Wexler, American record producer and journalist (d. 2008)
* 1918 &ndash; Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
* 1919 &ndash; Terukuni Manzo, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
* 1920 &ndash; Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
* 1920 &ndash; Richard Nelson Frye, American orientalist and historian (d. 2014)
* 1920 &ndash; Rut Brandt, Norwegian–German writer, wife of Willy Brandt (d. 2006)
* 1921 &ndash; Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; Michel Henry, French philosopher and writer (d. 2002)
* 1922 &ndash; Billy Liddell, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2001)
* 1924 &ndash; Eduardo Chillida, Basque sculptor (d. 2002)
* 1924 &ndash; Max Roach, American musician and composer (d. 2007)
* 1925 &ndash; Peter Colotka, Slovakian academic, lawyer and politician (d. 2019)

### 1926&ndash;1950 
* 1927 &ndash; Otto Stich, Swiss politician (d. 2012)
* 1927 &ndash; Megumu Tamura, Japanese footballer (d. 1986)
* 1928 &ndash; Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015)
* 1929 &ndash; Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
* 1930 &ndash; Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
* 1931 &ndash; Massimo Vignelli, Italian designer (d. 2014)
* 1931 &ndash; Will McBride, American photographer (d. 2015)
* 1931 &ndash; Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician (d. 2015)
* 1931 &ndash; Ron Galella, American photographer
* 1932 &ndash; Louis Rwagasore, Burundian politician
* 1934 &ndash; Leonard Boswell, American politician (d. 2018)
* 1934 &ndash; Leonid Kravchuk, former President of Ukraine
* 1936 &ndash; Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer
* 1938 &ndash; Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
* 1938 &ndash; Lois Capps, American politician
* 1939 &ndash; David Horowitz, American writer and political commentator
* 1939 &ndash; Scott McKenzie, American singer (d. 2012)
* 1939 &ndash; Bill Toomey, American athlete
* 1939 &ndash; Davie Wilson, Scottish footballer
* 1940 &ndash; Walter Hill, American movie director
* 1940 &ndash; Yesudas, Indian singer and classical musician
* 1941 &ndash; Tom Clarke, Scottish politician
* 1942 &ndash; Walter Hill, American director
* 1943 &ndash; Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
* 1944 &ndash; Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer (d. 2016)
* 1945 &ndash; Rod Stewart, British singer
* 1945 &ndash; Günther von Hagens, German anatomist
* 1945 &ndash; John Fahey, 38th Premier of New South Wales
* 1947 &ndash; Peer Steinbrück, German politician
* 1947 &ndash; Tiit Vahi, Estonian politician
* 1948 &ndash; Donald Fagan, American musician
* 1948 &ndash; Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
* 1949 &ndash; Walter Browne, Australian–American chess player (d. 2015)
* 1949 &ndash; George Foreman, American boxer and entrepreneur (George Foreman Grill)
* 1949 &ndash; Harald Hove, Norwegian politician (d. 2014)
* 1949 &ndash; Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
* 1950 &ndash; Suchitra Bhattacharya, Indian novelist (d. 2015)
* 1950 &ndash; Roy Blunt, American politician
* 1950 &ndash; Barbara Orbison, German–born American record producer and music publisher (d. 2011)
* 1950 &ndash; Winfried Schaefer, German footballer
* 1950 &ndash; Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer

### 1951&ndash;1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Oleh Romanishin, Ukrainian chess player
* 1952 &ndash; Scott Thurston, American musician
* 1953 &ndash; Pat Benatar, American singer
* 1955 &ndash; Franco Tancredi, Italian footballer
* 1955 &ndash; Michael Schenker, German guitarist
* 1955 &ndash; Yasmina Khadra (real name Mohammed Moulessehoul), Algerian writer
* 1957 &ndash; Greg Walden, American politician
* 1958 &ndash; Eddie Cheever, American racing driver
* 1959 &ndash; Chandra Cheeseborough, American athlete
* 1959 &ndash; Samira Said, Moroccan singer
* 1959 &ndash; Maurizio Sarri, Italian football manager
* 1960 &ndash; Gurinder Chadha, British movie director
* 1960 &ndash; Brian Cowen, former Taoiseach of Ireland
* 1960 &ndash; Jurrie Koolhof, Dutch footballer (d. 2019)
* 1960 &ndash; Claudia Losch, German athlete
* 1961 &ndash; Evan Handler, American actor
* 1961 &ndash; Janet Jones, American actress
* 1961 &ndash; Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian–American violinist, writer and educator
* 1963 &ndash; Kira Ivanova, Russian figure skater (d. 2001)
* 1963 &ndash; Francesco Panetta, Italian runner
* 1964 &ndash; Brad Roberts, Canadian singer
* 1965 &ndash; Hiroshi Hirakawa, Japanese footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Butch Hartman, American animator
* 1966 &ndash; Bert Cooper, American boxer (d. 2019)
* 1966 &ndash; Murali Nair, Indian movie director
* 1972 &ndash; Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross–country skier
* 1973 &ndash; Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
* 1973 &ndash; Tanya Streeter, British freediver
* 1974 &ndash; Sabrina Setlur, German rapper
* 1974 &ndash; Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor, singer and guitarist (Flight of the Conchords)
* 1974 &ndash; Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
* 1974 &ndash; Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Ian Poulter, English golfer
* 1977 &ndash; Michelle O'Neill, Northern Irish politician, leader of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland
* 1978 &ndash; Gavin McCann, English footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Edu, Brazilian footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Anna Lesko, Romanian singer
* 1980 &ndash; Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Sarah Shahi, American actress
* 1981 &ndash; Jared Kushner, American real estate investor, developer and publisher
* 1982 &ndash; Ana Layevska, Russian–Mexican actress
* 1982 &ndash; Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1984 &ndash; Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Abbey Clancy, English model
* 1986 &ndash; Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player
* 1986 &ndash; Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player
* 1987 &ndash; César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
* 1988 &ndash; Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan long–distance runner
* 1988 &ndash; Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
* 1989 &ndash; Emily Meade, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Tao Li, Chinese swimmer
* 1990 &ndash; César Ruiz, Peruvian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Mario Innauer, Austrian ski jumper
* 1991 &ndash; Romain Wattel, French golfer
* 1992 &ndash; Emmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer
* 1994 &ndash; Mohammed Aman, Ethiopian middle–distance runner
* 2004 &ndash; Kaitlyn Maher, American actress and singer

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 314 &ndash; Pope Miltiades
* 681 &ndash; Pope Agatho
* 976 &ndash; John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
* 1218 &ndash; Hugh I of Cyprus (b. 1195)
* 1276 &ndash; Pope Gregory X
* 1321 &ndash; Mary of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1254)
* 1645 &ndash; William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
* 1654 &ndash; Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer (b. 1618)
* 1662 &ndash; Prince Honoré of Monaco (b. 1597)
* 1778 &ndash; Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
* 1794 &ndash; Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (b. 1754)
* 1811 &ndash; Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
* 1824 &ndash; King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
* 1825 &ndash; Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero (b. 1745)
* 1833 &ndash; Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
* 1855 &ndash; Mary Russell Mitford, English writer and playwright (b. 1787)
* 1862 &ndash; Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
* 1863 &ndash; Lyman Beecher, American Presbyterian clergyman (b. 1775)
* 1895 &ndash; Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)

### 1901&ndash;1950 
* 1901 &ndash; James Dickson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1832)
* 1905 &ndash; Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
* 1917 &ndash; William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
* 1918 &ndash; August Oetker, German businessman (b. 1862)
* 1926 &ndash; Eino Leino, Finnish writer (b. 1878)
* 1934 &ndash; Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, accused of Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
* 1935 &ndash; Edwin Flack, American athlete (b. 1873)
* 1941 &ndash; Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
* 1941 &ndash; Joe Penner, Hungarian–born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
* 1941 &ndash; Issai Schur, German mathematician (b. 1875)
* 1949 &ndash; Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and polar scientist (b. 1865)

### 1951&ndash;2000 
* 1951 &ndash; Sinclair Lewis, American writer (b. 1885)
* 1951 &ndash; Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
* 1957 &ndash; Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
* 1959 &ndash; Michael Grzimek, German nature filmmaker (b. 1934)
* 1960 &ndash; Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1907)
* 1961 &ndash; Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
* 1968 &ndash; Ali Fuet Cebesoy, Turkish general and politician (b. 1882)
* 1969 &ndash; Sampurnanand, Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
* 1969 &ndash; John Brownlee, American tenor (b. 1900)
* 1970 &ndash; Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
* 1971 &ndash; Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
* 1972 &ndash; Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
* 1976 &ndash; Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
* 1978 &ndash; Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
* 1978 &ndash; Don Gillis, American composer and conductor (b. 1912)
* 1980 &ndash; George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
* 1981 &ndash; Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
* 1981 &ndash; Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
* 1981 &ndash; Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
* 1982 &ndash; Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
* 1984 &ndash; Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
* 1985 &ndash; Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
* 1986 &ndash; Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (b. 1901)
* 1987 &ndash; Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
* 1990 &ndash; Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1925)
* 1997 &ndash; Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor and director (b. 1907)
* 1997 &ndash; Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
* 1997 &ndash; Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist (b. 1907)
* 2000 &ndash; Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Julho Botelho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
* 2004 &ndash; Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (b. 1941)
* 2004 &ndash; Alexandra Ripley, writer
* 2005 &ndash; Gene Baylos, comedian
* 2005 &ndash; Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
* 2005 &ndash; James Forman, American Civil Rights leader (b. 1928)
* 2005 &ndash; Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
* 2005 &ndash; Gordon John "Jack" Horner, sports journalist
* 2005 &ndash; Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
* 2007 &ndash; Carlo Ponti, Italian movie producer (b. 1912)
* 2008 &ndash; Maila Nurmi, Finnish–American actress (b. 1921)
* 2009 &ndash; Bill Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
* 2011 &ndash; John Dye, American actor (b. 1963)
* 2011 &ndash; Margaret Whiting, American actress (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Zbigniew Messner, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Larry Speakes, American journalist (b. 1939)
* 2014 &ndash; Allard van der Scheer, Dutch actor (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Marly Marley, Brazilian actress (b. 1938)
* 2015 &ndash; Francesco Rosi, Italian movie director (b. 1922)
* 2015 &ndash; Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (b. 1994)
* 2015 &ndash; Taylor Negron, American writer, actor and painter (b. 1957)
* 2015 &ndash; Harry V. Jaffa, American political philosophy professor (b. 1918)
* 2015 &ndash; Walter Berns, American lawyer and political philosophy professor (b. 1919)
* 2015 &ndash; Frans Bolweg, Dutch sailor (b. 1950)
* 2015 &ndash; Robert Berner, American geoscientist (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Robert Stone, American writer (b. 1937)
* 2015 &ndash; Jorgelina Aranda, Argentine model, actress and singer (b. 1942)
* 2015 &ndash; Elemér Hankiss, Hungarian sociologist (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Inge Vermeulen, Brazilian–Dutch field hockey player (b. 1985)
* 2016 &ndash; Abbas Bahri, Tunisian mathematician (b. 1954)
* 2016 &ndash; Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer (b. 1930)
* 2016 &ndash; Cornelis Zitman, Dutch sculptor (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Bob Oatley, Australian businessman, winemaker and yachtsman (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; David Bowie, English singer, musician and actor (b. 1947)
* 2016 &ndash; Ann Z. Caracristi, American cryptographer (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Teofil Codreanu, Romanian footballer (b. 1941)
* 2016 &ndash; Jeanne Cordova, American LGBT activist (b. 1948)
* 2016 &ndash; Ulrich Hahnen, German politician (b. 1952)
* 2016 &ndash; Ralph Hauenstein, American philanthropist and businessman (b. 1912)
* 2016 &ndash; George Jonas, Hungarian–Canadian writer, poet and journalist (b. 1935)
* 2016 &ndash; Kalevi Lehtovirta, Finnish footballer (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Yusuf Zuayyin, Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1931)
* 2017 &ndash; Buddy Greco, American singer and actor (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Roman Herzog, President of Germany (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (b. 1911)
* 2017 &ndash; Oliver Smithies, English–American geneticist (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; Hiag Akmakjian, American writer, painter and photographer (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Ronald Buxton, British politician (b. 1923)
* 2017 &ndash; Ryszard Parulski, Polish fencer (b. 1938)
* 2017 &ndash; Manlio Rocchetti, Italian make–up artist (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Tony Rosato, Italian–born Canadian actor (b. 1954)
* 2017 &ndash; Kenny Wharram, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (b. 1950)
* 2018 &ndash; Mikhail Derzhavin, Russian actor (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Tom Luken, American politician (b. 1925)
* 2018 &ndash; Doreen Tracey, English–born American actress (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Theo Adam, German opera singer (b. 1926)
* 2019 &ndash; Dianne Oxberry, English broadcaster (b. 1967)
* 2019 &ndash; Lionel Price, English basketball player (b. 1927)

## Observances 
* Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)