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Povijesni događaji na datum: 20. veljače 2025
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- 1339: The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
- 1472: Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
- 1521: Juan Ponce de León sets out from Spain for Florida with about 200 prospective colonists.
- 1547: Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1553: Yohannan Sulaqa professes his Catholic belief and is ordained as bishop shortly after; this marks the beginning of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
- 1685: René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
- 1792: The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
- 1798: Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
- 1813: Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pío de Tristán during the Battle of Salta.
- 1816: Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
- 1824: William Buckland formally announces the name Megalosaurus, the first scientifically validly named non-avian dinosaur species.
- 1835: The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
- 1846: Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Kraków to incite a fight for national independence.
- 1864: American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
- 1865: End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1872: The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
- 1877: Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 1901: The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
- 1905: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts's mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.
- 1909: Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 1913: King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- 1920: An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
- 1931: The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
- 1931: An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
- 1933: The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
- 1933: Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
- 1935: Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
- 1939: Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi rally in United States history is convened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present.
- 1942: World War II: Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
- 1943: World War II: American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- 1943: The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
- 1944: World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
- 1944: World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
- 1952: Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
- 1956: The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
- 1959: The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
- 1962: Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
- 1965: Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
- 1968: The China Academy of Space Technology, China's main arm for the research, development, and creation of space satellites, is established in Beijing.
- 1971: The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
- 1979: An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H2S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
- 1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
- 1988: The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- 1991: In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
- 1998: American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
- 2003: During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
- 2005: Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
- 2009: Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
- 2010: In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
- 2014: Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, many reportedly killed by snipers.
- 2015: Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
- 2016: Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Rođeni na datum: 20. veljače 2025
Rođeni na datum: 20. veljače 2025
- 1358: Eleanor of Aragon, queen of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
- 1469: Thomas Cajetan, Italian philosopher (d. 1534)
- 1523: Jan Blahoslav, Czech writer (d. 1571)
- 1549: Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, last Duke of Urbino (d. 1631)
- 1552: Sengoku Hidehisa, Daimyō (d. 1614)
- 1608: Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (d. 1649)
- 1631: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1712)
- 1633: Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702)
- 1705: Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and composer (d. 1782)
- 1726: William Prescott, American colonel (d. 1795)
- 1744: William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (d. 1819)
- 1745: Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (d. 1813)
- 1748: Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
- 1751: Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet, translator, and academic (d. 1826)
- 1753: Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1815)
- 1756: Angelica Schuyler Church, American socialite, sister-in-law to Alexander Hamilton (d. 1814)
- 1759: Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (d. 1813)
- 1774: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Spanish cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida (d. 1829)
- 1784: Judith Montefiore, British linguist, travel writer, philanthropist (d. 1862)
- 1792: Eliza Courtney, French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1859)
- 1794: William Carleton, Irish author (d. 1869)
- 1802: Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1870)
- 1819: Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (d. 1882)
- 1839: Benjamin Waugh, English activist, founded the NSPCC (d. 1908)
- 1844: Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
- 1844: Joshua Slocum, Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909)
- 1848: E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1909)
- 1857: A. P. Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923)
- 1866: Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (d. 1936)
- 1867: Louise, Princess Royal of England (d. 1931)
- 1870: Jay Johnson Morrow, American engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (d. 1937)
- 1874: Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and actress (d. 1967)
- 1879: Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1907)
- 1880: Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (d. 1923)
- 1882: Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (d. 1946)
- 1887: Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (d. 1967)
- 1888: Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (d. 1948)
- 1889: Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician (d. 1948)
- 1893: Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1993)
- 1895: Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (d. 1924)
- 1897: Ivan Albright, American painter (d. 1983)
- 1898: Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher (d. 1992)
- 1899: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1992)
- 1901: René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982)
- 1901: Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974)
- 1901: Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (d. 1984)
- 1901: Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras Presidency (d. 1978)
- 1902: Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (d. 1984)
- 1906: Gale Gordon, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1912: Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (d. 1994)
- 1912: Johnny Checketts, New Zealand flying ace of the Second World War (d. 2006)
- 1913: Tommy Henrich, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
- 1914: John Charles Daly, South African-American journalist and game show host (d. 1991)
- 1916: Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
- 1918: Leonore Annenberg, American businesswoman and diplomat (d. 2009)
- 1919: James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot (d. 1974)
- 1920: Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (d. 2014)
- 1921: Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 1992)
- 1923: Victor G. Atiyeh, American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (d. 2014)
- 1923: Forbes Burnham, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
- 1923: Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress (d. 2004)
- 1924: Gloria Vanderbilt, American actress, fashion designer, and socialite (d. 2019)
- 1925: Robert Altman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1925: Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (d. 1990)
- 1926: Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (d. 2013)
- 1926: Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 2018)
- 1926: Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- 1926: Bob Richards, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 2023)
- 1926: María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (d. 1998)
- 1927: Roy Cohn, American lawyer and political activist (d. 1986)
- 1927: Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban singer and musician (d. 2005)
- 1927: Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
- 1927: Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (d. 2022)
- 1928: Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to Ireland (d. 2020)
- 1929: Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1931: John Milnor, American mathematician and academic
- 1932: Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (d. 2007)
- 1934: Bobby Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
- 1935: Ellen Gilchrist, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 2024)
- 1936: Marj Dusay, American actress (d. 2020)
- 1936: Larry Hovis, American actor and singer (d. 2003)
- 1936: Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1937: Robert Huber, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937: Roger Penske, American race car driver and businessman
- 1937: Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress (d. 2018)
- 1939: Herbert Kohler Jr., American businessman (d. 2022)
- 1940: Jimmy Greaves, English footballer and TV pundit (d. 2021)
- 1941: Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian lawyer and politician
- 1941: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1942: Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
- 1942: Mitch McConnell, American lawyer and politician
- 1942: Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
- 1943: Antonio Inoki, Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician (d. 2022)
- 1943: Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
- 1944: Robert de Cotret, Canadian economist and politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1999)
- 1944: Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (d. 2015)
- 1944: Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1945: Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1946: Brenda Blethyn, English actress
- 1946: Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1946: J. Geils, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
- 1947: Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
- 1947: Peter Strauss, American actor and producer
- 1948: Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1948: Jennifer O'Neill, American model and actress
- 1949: Eddie Hemmings, English cricketer
- 1949: Ivana Trump, Czech-American socialite and model (d. 2022)
- 1950: Walter Becker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2017)
- 1950: Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer
- 1950: Tony Wilson, English journalist and businessman (d. 2007)
- 1951: Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1951: Gordon Brown, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1951: Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1951: Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
- 1953: Poison Ivy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1954: Jon Brant, American bass player
- 1954: Anthony Head, English actor
- 1954: Patty Hearst, American actress and author
- 1957: Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1958: James Wilby, English actor
- 1959: Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996)
- 1959: David Corn, American journalist and author
- 1959: Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
- 1960: Joel Hodgson, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
- 1960: Cándido Muatetema Rivas, Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (d. 2014)
- 1961: Steve Lundquist, American swimmer
- 1962: Dwayne McDuffie, American author, screenwriter, and producer, co-founded Milestone Media (d. 2011)
- 1963: Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1963: Ian Brown, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1963: Joakim Nystrom, Swedish tennis player
- 1963: Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health
- 1963: Cui Yongyuan, Chinese former anchor
- 1964: Willie Garson, American actor and director (d. 2021)
- 1964: Tom Harris, Scottish journalist and politician
- 1964: Jeff Maggert, American golfer
- 1964: French Stewart, American actor
- 1966: Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
- 1967: Paul Accola, Swiss alpine skier
- 1967: Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1967: David Herman, American comedian and actor
- 1967: Andrew Shue, American actor and activist, founded Do Something
- 1967: Lili Taylor, American actress
- 1969: Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian school principal and track and field athlete
- 1969: Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2022)
- 1969: Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
- 1971: Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
- 1971: Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player (d. 2017)
- 1973: Andrea Savage, American actress and comedian
- 1974: Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer and manager
- 1975: Liván Hernández, Cuban-American baseball player
- 1975: Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1977: Gail Kim, Canadian wrestler
- 1977: Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
- 1978: Lauren Ambrose, American actress
- 1978: Jay Hernandez, American actor
- 1978: Chelsea Peretti, American actress, comedian, writer, and singer-songwriter
- 1979: Michael Zegen, American actor
- 1980: Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
- 1980: Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
- 1980: Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
- 1981: Majandra Delfino, American actress and singer-songwriter
- 1981: Tony Hibbert, English footballer
- 1983: Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1983: Justin Verlander, American baseball player
- 1984: Brian McCann, American baseball player
- 1984: Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television host
- 1985: Killian Dain, Northern Irish wrestler
- 1985: Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
- 1985: Julia Volkova, Russian singer and actress
- 1986: Julio Borbón, American baseball player
- 1987: Luke Burgess, English rugby league player
- 1987: Martin Hanzal, Czech ice hockey player
- 1987: James Johnson, American basketball player
- 1987: Daniella Pineda, American actress
- 1987: Miles Teller, American actor
- 1988: Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer
- 1988: Jiah Khan, Indian singer and actress (d. 2013)
- 1988: Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress
- 1989: Jack Falahee, American actor and singer-songwriter
- 1990: Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer
- 1991: Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter
- 1991: Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
- 1993: Jurickson Profar, Curaçaoan baseball player
- 1994: Kateryna Baindl, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1994: Luis Severino, Dominican baseball player
- 1995: Elle Purrier St. Pierre, American track and field athlete
- 1996: Clarke Schmidt, American baseball player
- 1998: Emam Ashour, Egyptian footballer
- 1999: Jarrett Culver, American basketball player
- 2000: Josh Sargent, American soccer player
- 2002: Gavin Bazunu, Irish footballer
- 2003: Olivia Rodrigo, American actress and singer
Preminuli na datum: 20. veljače 2025
Preminuli na datum: 20. veljače 2025
- 789: Leo of Catania, saint and bishop of Catania (b. 709)
- 922: Theodora, Byzantine empress
- 1054: Yaroslav the Wise, grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kyiv (b. 978)
- 1154: Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (b. c. 1080)
- 1171: Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
- 1194: Tancred, King of Sicily (b. 1138)
- 1258: Al-Musta'sim, Iraqi caliph (b. 1213)
- 1408: Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician, Earl Marshal of England (b. 1341)
- 1431: Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
- 1458: Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia
- 1513: King John of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1455)
- 1524: Tecun Uman, Mayan ruler (b. 1500)
- 1579: Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
- 1618: Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
- 1626: John Dowland, English lute player and composer (b. 1563)
- 1762: Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
- 1771: Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678)
- 1773: Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
- 1778: Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
- 1790: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
- 1806: Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
- 1810: Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean rebel leader (b. 1767)
- 1850: Valentín Canalizo, Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843-1844) (b. 1794)
- 1862: William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
- 1871: Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
- 1893: P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
- 1895: Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (b. c. 1818)
- 1900: Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
- 1907: Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1916: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
- 1920: Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
- 1920: Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
- 1933: Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (b. 1903)
- 1936: Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
- 1957: Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish scholar and politician (b. 1878)
- 1961: Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
- 1963: Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (b. 1879)
- 1965: Michał Waszyński, Polish film director and producer (b. 1904)
- 1966: Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
- 1968: Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
- 1969: Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
- 1972: Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 1972: Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
- 1976: René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1976: Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
- 1981: Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
- 1987: Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)
- 1992: A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)
- 1992: Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1993: Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)
- 1993: Ernest L. Massad, American general (b. 1908)
- 1996: Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
- 1996: Audrey Munson, American model (b. 1891)
- 1996: Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (b. 1930)
- 1999: Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
- 1999: Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
- 2001: Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2001: Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
- 2003: Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani air marshal (b. 1947)
- 2003: Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (b. 1907)
- 2003: Orville Freeman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1918)
- 2005: Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
- 2005: Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist (b. 1921)
- 2005: John Raitt, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
- 2005: Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
- 2006: Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
- 2006: Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1920)
- 2008: Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (b. 1907)
- 2009: Larry H. Miller, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
- 2010: Alexander Haig, American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)
- 2012: Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1960)
- 2012: Katie Hall, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
- 2013: Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (b. 1970)
- 2013: David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936)
- 2013: Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (b. 1932)
- 2014: Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1923)
- 2014: Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921)
- 2014: Garrick Utley, American journalist (b. 1939)
- 2015: Govind Pansare, Indian author and activist (b. 1933)
- 2015: Henry Segerstrom, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
- 2015: John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925)
- 2016: Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (b. 1934)
- 2017: Vitaly Churkin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (b. 1952)
- 2017: Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930)
- 2017: Steve Hewlett, British journalist (b. 1958)
- 2020: Joaquim Pina Moura, Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (b. 1952)
- 2021: Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (b. 1944)
- 2021: Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (b. 1950)
- 2024: Andreas Brehme, German footballer (b. 1960)
- 2024: Yoko Yamamoto, Japanese actress (b. 1942)