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Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 15. listopada 2024
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Imendan imaju: Terezija Avilska, Zlata
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Povijesni događaji na datum: 15. listopada 2024
Povijesni događaji na datum: 15. listopada 2024
- 1066: Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.
- 1211: Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
- 1529: The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
- 1582: Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
- 1651: Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.
- 1783: The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
- 1793: Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
- 1815: Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1863: American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
- 1864: American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1878: The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- 1888: The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 1910: Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 1923: The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1928: The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- 1932: Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- 1939: The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
- 1940: President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
- 1944: World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
- 1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
- 1954: Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
- 1956: FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
- 1965: Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
- 1966: The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
- 1970: During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
- 1979: Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
- 1979: A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
- 1987: Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
- 1987: A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
- 1989: Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
- 1990: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
- 1991: The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
- 1991: The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1994: The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
- 1997: The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- 2001: NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
- 2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
- 2006: The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
- 2007: Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
- 2008: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
- 2013: The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
- 2016: One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
- 2018: 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
Rođeni na datum: 15. listopada 2024
Rođeni na datum: 15. listopada 2024
- 99 (probable)[15]: Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (d. 55 BCE)
- 70 BC: Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
- 1265: Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (d. 1307)
- 1440: Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (d. 1483)
- 1471: Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (d. 1526)
- 1542: Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
- 1561: Richard Field, English cathedral dean (d. 1616)
- 1564: Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1613)
- 1599: Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664)
- 1608: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (d. 1647)
- 1622: Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
- 1686: Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1758)
- 1701: Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (d. 1771)
- 1711: Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (d. 1741)
- 1762: Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820)
- 1767: Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (d. 1832)
- 1775: Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (d. 1838)
- 1784: Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (d. 1849)
- 1785: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (d. 1821)
- 1789: William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (d. 1847)
- 1802: Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (d. 1857)
- 1814: Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (d. 1841)
- 1816: John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1891)
- 1818: Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1869)
- 1825: Marie of Prussia (d. 1889)
- 1829: Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (d. 1907)
- 1833: John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)
- 1836: James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (d. 1902)
- 1840: Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (d. 1894)
- 1844: Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (d. 1900)
- 1858: John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (d. 1918)
- 1865: Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (d. 1925)
- 1872: Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (d. 1956)
- 1872: August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (d. 1921)
- 1874: Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)
- 1878: Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (d. 1966)
- 1879: Jane Darwell, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1881: P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (d. 1975)
- 1882: Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (d. 1941)
- 1884: Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (d. 1910)
- 1887: Frederick Fleet, English sailor (d. 1965)
- 1888: S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (d. 1939)
- 1890: Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (d. 1935)
- 1893: Carol II of Romania (d. 1953)
- 1894: Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
- 1897: Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 1960)
- 1899: Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (d. 1986)
- 1900: Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987)
- 1901: Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (d. 1952)
- 1905: C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (d. 1980)
- 1906: Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (d. 2004)
- 1906: Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (d. 1963)
- 1906: Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)
- 1907: Varian Fry, American journalist and author (d. 1967)
- 1908: Herman Chittison, American pianist (d. 1967)
- 1908: John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)
- 1909: Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
- 1909: Robert Trout, American journalist (d. 2000)
- 1910: Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1990)
- 1912: Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (d. 2007)
- 1913: Wolfgang Lüth, German commander (d. 1945)
- 1914: Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007)
- 1916: Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1950)
- 1916: George Turner, Australian author and critic (d. 1997)
- 1917: Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1917: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007)
- 1917: Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (d. 2013)
- 1919: Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (d. 1985)
- 1919: Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (d. 1995)
- 1920: Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2012)
- 1920: Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (d. 1968)
- 1920: Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (d. 1998)
- 1920: Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- 1920: Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1921: Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (d. 2006)
- 1922: Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (d. 2019)
- 1922: Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (d. 2013)
- 1923: Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (d. 1985)
- 1923: Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (d. 2010)
- 1923: Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (d. 2013)
- 1923: Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (d. 2008)
- 1924: Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (d. 2022)
- 1924: Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (d. 2019)
- 1924: Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- 1925: Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (d. 2012)
- 1925: Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (d. 2012)
- 1925: Tony Hart, English painter and television host (d. 2009)
- 1926: James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (d. 2010)
- 1926: Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (d. 2012)
- 1926: Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (d. 1984)
- 1926: Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1926: Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1926: Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (d. 1981)
- 1927: B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
- 1929: Will Insley, American painter and architect (d. 2011)
- 1930: FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (d. 2000)
- 1931: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (d. 2015)
- 1931: Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
- 1932: Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (d. 2020)
- 1933: Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (d. 2012)
- 1934: Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (d. 2016)
- 1934: N. Ramani, Indian flute player (d. 2015)
- 1935: Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1935: Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer
- 1935: Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (d. 2020)
- 1935: Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
- 1936: Michel Aumont, French actor (d. 2019)
- 1936: Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (d. 2019)
- 1937: Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
- 1938: Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1993)
- 1938: Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (d. 1997)
- 1938: Brice Marden, American painter (d. 2023)
- 1938: Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1940: Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
- 1940: Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941: Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
- 1942: Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
- 1942: Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
- 1942: Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
- 1943: Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (d. 2018)
- 1944: Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
- 1944: A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (d. 2005)
- 1944: Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
- 1944: David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
- 1945: Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (d. 2015)
- 1945: Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
- 1945: Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (d. 2024)
- 1945: Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1946: Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
- 1946: Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1946: Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
- 1946: Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
- 1947: Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1947: Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
- 1948: Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2016)
- 1948: Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1949: Laurie McBain, American author
- 1949: Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
- 1950: Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (d. 2015)
- 1951: Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1951: Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
- 1951: Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
- 1953: Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
- 1953: Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024)
- 1953: Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
- 1953: Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
- 1954: Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
- 1954: Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
- 1954: Jere Burns, American actor
- 1954: Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
- 1955: Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
- 1955: Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
- 1955: Tanya Roberts, American actress (d. 2021)
- 1957: Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
- 1957: Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
- 1957: Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
- 1958: Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
- 1959: Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
- 1959: Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
- 1959: Sarah, Duchess of York
- 1959: Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1961: Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1963: Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1964: Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1965: Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (d. 2013)
- 1966: Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
- 1966: Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
- 1966: Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
- 1966: Dave Stead, English drummer
- 1967: Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter
- 1967: Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
- 1967: Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
- 1968: Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
- 1968: Vanessa Marcil, American actress
- 1968: Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
- 1968: Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
- 1969: Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
- 1969: Dominic West, English actor and director
- 1970: Eric Benét, American musician
- 1970: Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
- 1970: Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
- 1971: Joey Abs, American wrestler
- 1971: Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
- 1971: Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
- 1972: Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
- 1972: Matt Keeslar, American actor
- 1972: Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
- 1973: Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
- 1973: Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer
- 1974: Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer
- 1974: Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
- 1975: Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
- 1975: Glen Little, English footballer and manager
- 1976: Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player
- 1976: Christian Allen, American video game designer
- 1976: Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
- 1977: Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
- 1977: David Trezeguet, French footballer
- 1977: Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1978: Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1978: Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland
- 1978: Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
- 1979: Blue Adams, American football player and coach
- 1979: Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
- 1979: Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
- 1979: Paul Robinson, English footballer
- 1979: Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1979: Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
- 1980: Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
- 1980: Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor
- 1981: Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1981: Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
- 1983: Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
- 1984: Izale McLeod, English footballer
- 1984: Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer
- 1984: Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
- 1985: Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
- 1985: Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer
- 1985: Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver
- 1986: Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
- 1986: Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
- 1986: Nolito, Spanish footballer
- 1987: Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver
- 1988: Dominique Jones, American basketball player
- 1988: Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician
- 1988: Mesut Özil, German footballer
- 1989: Blaine Gabbert, American football player
- 1989: Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
- 1989: Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
- 1990: Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1991: Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player
- 1991: Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
- 1992: Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor
- 1992: Vincent Martella, American actor
- 1993: Richaun Holmes, American basketball player
- 1994: Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player
- 1995: Jack Flaherty, American baseball player
- 1995: Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
- 1996: Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
- 1996: Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
- 1998: Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician who is known as coordinator of 2023 Banda Aceh anti-Rohingya protest
- 1999: Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer
- 2000: Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender who formerly served as Chairman of The Student Executive Board at University of Indonesia
- 2005: Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark
Preminuli na datum: 15. listopada 2024
Preminuli na datum: 15. listopada 2024
- 412: Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
- 892: Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
- 898: Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
- 912: Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (b. 844)
- 925: Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
- 961: Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
- 1002: Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
- 1080: Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
- 1173: Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
- 1240: Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (b. 1205)
- 1243: Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (b. 1174)
- 1326: Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.
- 1385: Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
- 1389: Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
- 1404: Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)
- 1496: Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
- 1564: Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
- 1674: Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
- 1684: Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
- 1690: Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
- 1715: Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
- 1788: Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
- 1810: Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
- 1811: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
- 1817: Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
- 1819: Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
- 1820: Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
- 1837: Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
- 1838: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (b. 1802)
- 1891: Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
- 1900: Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
- 1910: Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
- 1917: Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
- 1918: Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)
- 1925: Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)
- 1930: Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
- 1934: Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
- 1940: Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
- 1945: Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
- 1946: Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
- 1948: Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
- 1955: Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
- 1958: Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
- 1958: Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
- 1959: Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
- 1959: Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
- 1960: Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
- 1961: Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
- 1963: Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
- 1964: Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
- 1965: Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
- 1966: Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
- 1968: Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
- 1976: Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
- 1978: W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
- 1978: Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (b. 1899)
- 1980: Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
- 1980: Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
- 1983: Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1987: Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
- 1987: Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
- 1988: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (b. 1892)
- 1989: Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)
- 1990: Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)
- 1993: Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
- 1994: Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
- 1995: Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
- 1995: Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (b. 1976)
- 1999: Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
- 2000: Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- 2000: Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
- 2001: Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (b. 1901)
- 2003: Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
- 2004: Per Højholt, Danish poet (b. 1928)
- 2005: Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
- 2005: Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
- 2007: Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)
- 2008: Edie Adams, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
- 2008: Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914)
- 2008: Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)
- 2009: Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)
- 2010: Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
- 2010: Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
- 2010: Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2011: Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)
- 2012: Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920)
- 2012: Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
- 2012: Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
- 2012: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
- 2012: Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
- 2013: Donald Bailey, American drummer (b. 1933)
- 2013: Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)
- 2013: Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)
- 2013: Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931)
- 2013: Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2013: Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923)
- 2014: Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)
- 2014: Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)
- 2014: Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
- 2014: Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
- 2015: Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
- 2015: Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975)
- 2015: Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 2015: Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)
- 2015: Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960)
- 2017: Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950)
- 2018: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1953)
- 2021: David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (b. 1952)