Danas je 4. listopada 2024, 278. dan u godini, Petak.
Današnji imendani i blagdani
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Nema državnih praznika za današnji dan.
Imendan imaju: Franjo Asiški
Povijesni događaji u Hrvatskoj
Nema povijesnih događaja za današnji dan u Hrvatskoj.
Povijesni događaji
- 23: Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
- 1209: Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
- 1302: The Byzantine-Venetian War comes to an end.
- 1363: Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
- 1511: Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
- 1535: The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
- 1582: The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
- 1597: Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.
- 1602: Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
- 1636: Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1693: Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1777: American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
- 1795: Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
- 1824: Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830: The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
- 1853: The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
- 1876: The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
- 1883: First run of the Orient Express.
- 1883: First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1895: Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
- 1917: World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
- 1918: World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
- 1920: The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
- 1925: Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
- 1925: S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
- 1927: Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1936: The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
- 1941: Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1957: Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 1958: The current constitution of France is adopted.
- 1960: An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
- 1963: Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1965: Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
- 1966: Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1967: Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
- 1983: Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
- 1985: The Free Software Foundation is founded.
- 1991: The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1992: The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
- 1992: El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1993: Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
- 1993: Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
- 1997: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
- 2001: Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
- 2003: The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
- 2004: SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
- 2006: WikiLeaks is launched.
- 2010: The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
- 2017: Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
- 2021: Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race.
- 2022: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Rođeni na današnji dan
- 1160: Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. c. 1220)
- 1274: Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
- 1276: Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
- 1289: Louis X of France (d. 1316)
- 1331: James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 1382)
- 1379: Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
- 1507: Francis Bigod, English noble (d. 1537)
- 1515: Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
- 1522: Gabriele Paleotti, Catholic cardinal (d. 1597)
- 1524: Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (d. 1592)
- 1532: Francisco de Toledo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1596)
- 1542: Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621)
- 1550: Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
- 1562: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
- 1570: Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and philosopher (d. 1637)
- 1579: Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal (d. 1644)
- 1585: Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1618)
- 1625: Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661)
- 1626: Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1712)
- 1633: Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- 1657: Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1747)
- 1694: Lord George Murray, Scottish Jacobite General (d. 1760)
- 1720: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778)
- 1723: Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
- 1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
- 1768: Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (d. 1816)
- 1787: François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
- 1793: Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862)
- 1807: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (d. 1864)
- 1814: Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875)
- 1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- 1835: Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (d. 1921)
- 1836: Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
- 1837: Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1919)
- 1841: Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912)
- 1841: Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
- 1843: Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (d. 1927)
- 1858: Léon Serpollet, French businessman (d. 1903)
- 1861: Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)
- 1861: Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
- 1862: Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, who is credited with promoting his posthumous fame (d. 1925).
- 1862: Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930)
- 1868: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942)
- 1874: John Ellis, English executioner (d. 1932)
- 1876: Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
- 1877: Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
- 1879: Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer (d. 1948)
- 1880: Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer. (d. 1946)
- 1881: Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
- 1884: Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941)
- 1888: Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
- 1888: Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
- 1890: Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
- 1890: Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist (d. 1945)
- 1892: Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934)
- 1892: Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
- 1892: Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957)
- 1895: Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
- 1895: Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
- 1896: Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (d. 1964)
- 1900: August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)
- 1903: Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993)
- 1903: John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer (d. 1995)
- 1903: Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
- 1903: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
- 1906: Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996)
- 1907: Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994)
- 1910: Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
- 1910: Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (d. 1956)
- 1911: Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (d. 1996)
- 1913: Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
- 1914: Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003)
- 1914: Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (d. 1997)
- 1916: Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- 1916: Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
- 1916: George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002)
- 1916: Ken Wood, inventor of the Kenwood Chef food mixer (d. 1997)
- 1917: Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
- 1918: Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1921: Stella Pevsner, American children's author (d. 2020)
- 1922: Malcolm Baldrige Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
- 1922: Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group (d. 2020)
- 1922: Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
- 1923: Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (d. 2008)
- 1924: Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012)
- 1925: Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
- 1926: Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
- 1927: Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic (d. 2020)
- 1928: Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
- 1928: Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player (d. 2023)
- 1929: Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
- 1929: John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
- 1929: Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1931: Terence Conran, English designer and businessman (d. 2020)
- 1931: Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011)
- 1931: Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
- 1932: Felicia Farr, American actress and model
- 1933: German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor (d. 2016)
- 1933: Ann Thwaite, English author
- 1934: Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021)
- 1935: Jimmy Orr, American football player (d. 2020)
- 1936: Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2024)
- 1936: Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician (d. 2022)
- 1937: Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015)
- 1937: David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
- 1937: Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014)
- 1937: Lloyd Green, American steel guitar player
- 1937: Jim Sillars, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1938: Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1938: Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939: Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (d. 2018)
- 1940: Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940: Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
- 1940: Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
- 1940: Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021)
- 1941: Roy Blount Jr., American humorist and journalist
- 1941: Karen Cushman, American author
- 1941: Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
- 1941: Anne Rice, American author (d. 2021)
- 1941: Frank Stagg, Irish hunger striker (d. 1976)
- 1941: Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
- 1942: Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (d. 2024)
- 1942: Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967)
- 1942: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1942: Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1943: H. Rap Brown, American activist
- 1943: Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player (d. 2023)
- 1943: Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012)
- 1943: Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
- 1943: Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2024)
- 1944: Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
- 1944: Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
- 1944: Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
- 1944: John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
- 1945: Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
- 1946: Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
- 1946: Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
- 1946: Michael Mullen, American admiral
- 1946: Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
- 1947: Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1947: Jim Fielder, American bass player
- 1947: Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
- 1948: Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
- 1948: Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
- 1948: Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949: Armand Assante, American actor and producer
- 1949: Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1950: Alan Rosenberg, American actor
- 1951: Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
- 1951: Truck Robinson, American basketball player and coach
- 1952: Anita DeFrantz, American rower and sports administrator
- 1952: Jody Stephens, American rock drummer
- 1952: Zinha Vaz, Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician
- 1953: Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
- 1953: Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
- 1955: John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
- 1955: Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1956: Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
- 1956: Charlie Leibrandt, American baseball player
- 1956: Sherri Turner, American golfer
- 1956: Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
- 1957: Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
- 1957: Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1957: Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
- 1958: Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958: Wendy Makkena, American actress
- 1958: Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
- 1959: Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
- 1959: Tony Meo, English snooker player
- 1959: Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director
- 1960: Joe Boever, American baseball player
- 1960: Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (d. 2016)
- 1961: Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1961: Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
- 1961: Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh! (d. 2022)
- 1962: Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
- 1963: A.C. Green, American basketball player
- 1963: Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
- 1964: Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2009)
- 1964: Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
- 1965: Olaf Backasch, German footballer
- 1965: Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1965: Steve Olin, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1965: Micky Ward, American boxer
- 1967: Vicky Bullett, American basketball player and coach
- 1967: Nick Green, Australian rower
- 1967: Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
- 1968: Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
- 1968: Tim Wise, American activist and author
- 1969: Abraham Benrubi, American actor
- 1971: Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1972: Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
- 1973: M. Ward, American singer-songwriter
- 1974: Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1975: Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
- 1976: Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
- 1976: Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
- 1976: Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
- 1976: Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (d. 2017)
- 1977: Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
- 1978: Dana Davis, American actress and author
- 1978: Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
- 1978: Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1978: Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
- 1979: Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress
- 1979: Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
- 1979: Björn Phau, German tennis player
- 1979: Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
- 1980: Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
- 1980: James Jones, American basketball player
- 1980: Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
- 1981: Shaura, Japanese singer
- 1981: Justin Williams, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1982: Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
- 1982: Jered Weaver, American baseball player
- 1983: Dan Clarke, English race car driver
- 1983: Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
- 1983: Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
- 1983: Chansi Stuckey, American football player
- 1983: Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
- 1984: Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
- 1984: Petri Kontiola, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1984: Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
- 1984: Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
- 1985: Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
- 1985: Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
- 1987: Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
- 1987: Will Puddy, English footballer
- 1987: Marina Weisband, German politician
- 1988: Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
- 1988: Lonnie Chisenhall, American baseball player
- 1988: Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
- 1988: Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
- 1988: Derrick Rose, American basketball player
- 1989: Dakota Johnson, American actress
- 1990: Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer
- 1990: Saki, Japanese guitarist and songwriter
- 1990: Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler
- 1991: Leigh-Anne Pinnock, English singer and songwriter
- 1993: Mitchell Swepson, Australian cricketer
- 1994: Mike Williams, American football player
- 1995: Kenny Clark, American football player
- 1995: Mikolas Josef, Czech singer and songwriter
- 1996: Ella Balinska, English actress
- 1997: Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
- 1997: Yuju, South Korean singer
Preminuli na današnji dan
- 744: Yazid III, Umayyad caliph (b. 701)
- 863: Turpio, Frankish nobleman
- 1052: Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
- 1160: Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)
- 1189: Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- 1221: William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
- 1227: Caliph al-Adil of Morocco
- 1250: Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
- 1305: Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
- 1361: John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)
- 1497: John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
- 1582: Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
- 1597: Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
- 1646: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
- 1660: Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
- 1661: Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
- 1669: Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
- 1680: Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
- 1743: John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (b. 1678)
- 1747: Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (b. 1678)
- 1749: Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
- 1755: Samuel von Cocceji, Prussian jurist and statesman (b. 1679)
- 1821: John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)
- 1827: Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
- 1851: Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
- 1852: James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
- 1859: Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
- 1864: Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
- 1867: Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
- 1871: Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
- 1890: Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- 1903: Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
- 1904: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
- 1904: Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
- 1910: Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
- 1935: Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
- 1935: Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
- 1943: Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
- 1944: Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
- 1946: Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
- 1947: Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1951: Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
- 1955: Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
- 1958: Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
- 1961: Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
- 1963: Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
- 1970: Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1974: Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
- 1975: Friedrich Lutz, German economist (b. 1901)
- 1975: Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
- 1977: José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
- 1980: Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
- 1981: Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
- 1982: Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
- 1982: Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
- 1988: Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 1989: Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
- 1990: Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
- 1992: Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
- 1994: Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
- 1997: Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
- 1997: Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created the Game Boy (b. 1941)
- 1998: S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
- 1999: Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
- 1999: Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1928)
- 2000: Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
- 2000: Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
- 2001: Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
- 2001: John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
- 2001: Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
- 2002: André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2003: Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
- 2004: Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
- 2005: Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)
- 2007: Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
- 2009: Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
- 2009: Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
- 2010: Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
- 2011: Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2012: David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
- 2012: Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1941)
- 2012: Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
- 2013: John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
- 2013: Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2013: Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
- 2013: Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (b. 1958)
- 2013: Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)
- 2013: Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
- 2014: Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
- 2014: Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2014: Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
- 2014: Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
- 2015: Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (b. 1938)
- 2015: Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (b. 1934)
- 2015: Neal Walk, American basketball player (b. 1948)
- 2020: Clark Middleton, American actor (b. 1957)
- 2020: Kenzō Takada, Japanese-French fashion designer (b. 1939)
- 2022: Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1932)