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Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 28. listopada 2024
Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 28. listopada 2024
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Imendan imaju: Šimun i Juda Tadej, apostoli
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Povijesni događaji na datum: 28. listopada 2024
Povijesni događaji na datum: 28. listopada 2024
- 97: Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
- 306: Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
- 312: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
- 969: The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.
- 1344: The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades.
- 1420: Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
- 1449: Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1453: Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
- 1492: Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
- 1516: Second Ottoman-Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
- 1520: Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
- 1531: Abyssinian-Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
- 1538: The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
- 1628: French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
- 1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
- 1640: The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops’ War.
- 1664: The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1707: The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
- 1726: The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
- 1776: American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
- 1834: The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
- 1835: The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1864: American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
- 1886: US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1891: The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
- 1893: Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
- 1918: World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish-Ukrainian War.
- 1918: World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
- 1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1922: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- 1928: Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
- 1940: World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
- 1942: The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
- 1948: Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1948: Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
- 1949: An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
- 1956: Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
- 1958: John XXIII is elected Pope.
- 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- 1965: Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
- 1971: Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
- 1982: The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
- 1990: Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
- 1995: The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
- 2006: A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
- 2007: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
- 2009: The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
- 2009: NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
- 2009: US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
- 2013: Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
- 2014: A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
- 2018: Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
Rođeni na datum: 28. listopada 2024
Rođeni na datum: 28. listopada 2024
- 1017: Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- 1466: Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
- 1479: John Gage, English courtier (d. 1556)
- 1510: Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572)
- 1550: Stanislaus Kostka, Polish saint (d. 1568)
- 1585: Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and theologian (d. 1638)
- 1599: Marie of the Incarnation, foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (d. 1672)
- 1610: Jacob Kettler, 3rd duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1682)
- 1667: Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen consort of Spain
- 1690: Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720)
- 1693: Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
- 1696: Maurice de Saxe, French general (d. 1750)
- 1703: Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768)
- 1718: Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793)
- 1733: Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
- 1754: John Laurens, American soldier (d. 1782)
- 1767: Marie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
- 1793: Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
- 1794: Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon (d. 1847)
- 1804: Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849)
- 1815: Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak philologist and politician (d. 1856)
- 1816: Malwida von Meysenbug, German writer (d. 1903)
- 1837: Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1913)
- 1839: Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1909)
- 1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888)
- 1846: Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (d. 1935)
- 1854: Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
- 1860: Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
- 1864: Adolfo Camarillo, Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
- 1867: Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (d. 1911)
- 1875: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (d. 1966)
- 1877: Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
- 1879: Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
- 1880: Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1940)
- 1880: Billy Wedlock, English footballer (d. 1965)
- 1881: Vin Coutie, Australian footballer (d. 1951)
- 1884: William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
- 1886: O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957)
- 1886: Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer (d. 1946)
- 1888: Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (d. 1964)
- 1889: Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
- 1892: Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (d. 1954)
- 1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (d. 1970)
- 1896: Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1981)
- 1897: Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
- 1897: Hans Speidel, German general (d. 1984)
- 1901: Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
- 1902: Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
- 1903: John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995)
- 1903: Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1966)
- 1904: George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
- 1905: Tatyana Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984)
- 1907: John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
- 1908: Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
- 1909: Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1912: Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (d. 2005)
- 1914: Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
- 1914: Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
- 1914: Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1916: Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009)
- 1917: Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
- 1919: Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (d. 1966)
- 1919: Hans Klenk, German race car driver (d. 2009)
- 1921: Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
- 1922: Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)
- 1922: Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
- 1922: Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1923: John Connell, American actor (d. 2015)
- 1924: Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1996)
- 1924: Peddibhotla Suryakantam, Telugu actress (d. 1994)
- 1925: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006)
- 1926: Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
- 1927: Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
- 1928: Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general (d. 2021)
- 1928: William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
- 1929: Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
- 1929: Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic
- 1929: John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
- 1929: Joan Plowright, English actress
- 1930: Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
- 1931: Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2015)
- 1932: Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
- 1932: Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d. 2003)
- 1933: Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
- 1933: Michael Noakes, English painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
- 1934: Charles A. Gargano, American diplomat, businessman and government official
- 1935: Alan Clarke, English director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
- 1936: Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (d. 2020)
- 1936: Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
- 1937: Graham Bond, English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1974)
- 1937: Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
- 1938: Keigo Abe, Japanese martial artist and coach (d. 2019)
- 1938: Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer
- 1938: Howard Blake, English composer and conductor
- 1938: Dave Budd, American basketball player
- 1938: Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
- 1938: David Dimbleby, English journalist
- 1938: Anne Perry, English author (d. 2023)
- 1939: Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
- 1939: Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
- 1939: Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
- 1939: Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1940: Susan Harris, American screenwriter and producer
- 1941: Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist
- 1942: Terence Donovan, English-Australian actor
- 1942: Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1942: Gillian Lovegrove, English computer scientist and academic
- 1942: Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
- 1943: Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver
- 1943: Karalyn Patterson, English psychologist and academic
- 1944: Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014)
- 1944: Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
- 1944: Dennis Franz, American actor
- 1944: Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
- 1945: Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2015)
- 1945: Wayne Fontana, English pop singer (d. 2020)
- 1945: Don Iverson, American golfer
- 1946: John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
- 1946: Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2022)
- 1946: Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet and academic
- 1948: Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
- 1949: Dwight Davis, American basketball player
- 1949: Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and actress
- 1950: Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and activist
- 1950: Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
- 1951: Peter Hitchens, English journalist and author
- 1951: Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author
- 1952: Annie Potts, American actress
- 1953: Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
- 1953: Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer
- 1955: Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
- 1955: Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
- 1956: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
- 1956: Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
- 1957: Marian Bell, English economist and academic
- 1957: Stephen Morris, English drummer
- 1957: Zach Wamp, American businessman and politician
- 1958: Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2013)
- 1958: Ashok Chavan, Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- 1958: William Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1959: James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1959: Toshio Masuda, Japanese composer
- 1959: Randy Wittman, American basketball player and coach
- 1960: Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist and mathematician
- 1962: Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and manager
- 1962: Daphne Zuniga, American actress
- 1963: Kevin Dineen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1963: Lauren Holly, American actress
- 1963: Sheryl Underwood, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
- 1964: Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and politician
- 1964: Peter Coyne, Australian rugby league player
- 1965: Jami Gertz, American actress
- 1965: David Warburton, English composer, businessman, and politician
- 1965: Miyako Yoshida, Japanese ballerina
- 1966: Steve Atwater, American football player
- 1966: Chris Bauer, American actor
- 1966: Matt Drudge, American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report
- 1966: Andy Richter, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966: Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
- 1967: Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1967: Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
- 1967: John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
- 1968: Chris Broussard, American journalist and sportscaster
- 1968: Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
- 1968: Mayumi Ozaki, Japanese wrestler
- 1969: Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist
- 1969: Jeremy Davies, American actor
- 1969: Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
- 1969: Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1969: Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach
- 1970: Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
- 1970: Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer
- 1971: Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress (d. 2010)
- 1971: Caroline Dinenage, English businesswoman and politician
- 1972: Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
- 1972: Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1972: Trista Sutter, American reality star
- 1973: Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor
- 1973: Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
- 1974: Braden Looper, American baseball player
- 1974: Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1974: Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer
- 1974: Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer and coach
- 1974: Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
- 1976: Keiron Cunningham, British rugby league player and coach
- 1976: Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
- 1976: Simone Loria, Italian footballer
- 1978: Gwendoline Christie, English actress
- 1978: Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1979: Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer
- 1979: Jawed Karim, American computer scientist
- 1979: Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (d. 2012)
- 1979: Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
- 1980: Christy Hemme, American wrestler and ring announcer
- 1980: Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1980: Alan Smith, English footballer and coach
- 1981: Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
- 1981: Shane Gore, English footballer
- 1981: Nate McLouth, American baseball player
- 1981: Nick Montgomery, English-Scottish footballer
- 1982: Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
- 1982: Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer
- 1982: Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
- 1982: Hironori Saruta, Japanese footballer
- 1982: Matt Smith, English actor and director
- 1983: Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
- 1983: Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and actress
- 1983: Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter
- 1984: Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
- 1984: Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
- 1984: Finn Wittrock, American actor
- 1985: Tyrone Barnett, English footballer
- 1985: Troian Bellisario, American actress
- 1985: Anthony Fantano, American music critic
- 1986: May Calamawy, Egyptian-Palestinian actress
- 1986: Isabelle Eriksson, Swedish athlete
- 1986: Anthony Griffith, English footballer
- 1986: Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1987: Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
- 1988: Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (d. 2012)
- 1988: Devon Murray, Irish actor
- 1988: Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer
- 1989: Devin Ebanks, American basketball player
- 1989: Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015)
- 1991: Lucy Bronze, English footballer
- 1992: Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
- 1992: Jeon Ji-hee, South Korean table tennis player
- 1992: Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
- 1994: Andrew Harrison, American basketball player
- 1995: Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
- 1995: Jae'Sean Tate, American basketball player
- 1996: Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
- 1996: Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
- 1996: Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
- 1997: Stetson Bennett, American football player
- 1997: Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
- 1997: Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast
- 1998: Nolan Gould, American actor
- 2001: Sonay Kartal, British tennis player
Preminuli na datum: 28. listopada 2024
Preminuli na datum: 28. listopada 2024
- 312: Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
- 457: Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
- 816: Beggo, count of Toulouse and Paris
- 875: Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
- 1138: King Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland
- 1225: Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)
- 1266: Saint Arsenije I Sremac
- 1310: Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b. 1230)
- 1312: Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
- 1412: Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
- 1468: Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)
- 1568: Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shōgun (b. 1539)
- 1592: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
- 1594: Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)
- 1627: Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
- 1639: Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1587)
- 1646: William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
- 1661: Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618)
- 1676: Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1595)
- 1703: John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616)
- 1704: John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)
- 1708: Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
- 1716: Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
- 1740: Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
- 1754: Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
- 1755: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
- 1763: Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700)
- 1768: Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
- 1787: Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
- 1792: Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710)
- 1792: John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)
- 1800: Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727)
- 1806: Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
- 1818: Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
- 1841: Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
- 1857: Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
- 1877: Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
- 1879: Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
- 1899: Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
- 1900: Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
- 1906: Jean Benner, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1914: Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
- 1916: Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
- 1916: Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
- 1917: Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
- 1917: Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
- 1918: Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
- 1929: Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
- 1936: Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
- 1939: Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
- 1941: Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
- 1945: Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
- 1952: Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 1957: Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
- 1959: Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
- 1963: Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
- 1965: Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882)
- 1969: Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
- 1970: Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
- 1973: Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
- 1973: Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
- 1975: Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
- 1975: Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
- 1976: Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain (b. 1904)
- 1978: Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
- 1983: Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)
- 1986: John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
- 1987: André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)
- 1989: Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
- 1993: Juri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
- 1997: Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
- 1998: Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
- 1999: Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
- 2000: Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
- 2001: Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
- 2002: Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
- 2002: Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
- 2003: Sally Baldwin, Scottish social sciences professor (b. 1940)
- 2004: Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)
- 2005: Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
- 2005: Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
- 2005: Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
- 2005: Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
- 2005: Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2005: Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2006: Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)
- 2006: Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1954)
- 2006: Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2007: Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
- 2007: Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
- 2009: Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1990)
- 2010: Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
- 2010: James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
- 2010: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
- 2010: Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934)
- 2011: Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919)
- 2012: Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)
- 2012: John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
- 2012: Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
- 2013: Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
- 2013: Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
- 2013: Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)
- 2013: Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)
- 2014: Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)
- 2014: Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
- 2018: Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (b. 1985)
- 2022: Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1935)
- 2023: Matthew Perry, American-Canadian actor (b. 1969)
- 2023: Adam Johnson, American ice hockey player (b. 1994)