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Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 6. listopada 2024
Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 6. listopada 2024
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Imendan imaju: Bruno, Fides, Verica, Vjera
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Povijesni događaji na datum: 6. listopada 2024
Povijesni događaji na datum: 6. listopada 2024
- 105 BC: Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio of the Roman army of the mid-Republic
- 69 BC: Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia.
- 23: Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion.
- 404: Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
- 618: Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi.
- 1539: Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
- 1600: Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
- 1683: Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
- 1762: Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
- 1777: American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
- 1789: French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
- 1810: A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
- 1849: The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1854: In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
- 1884: The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
- 1898: Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
- 1903: The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
- 1908: The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1910: Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
- 1915: World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen .
- 1915: World War I: Entente forces land in Thessaloniki, to open the Macedonian front against the Central Powers.
- 1920: Ukrainian War of Independence: The Starobilsk agreement is signed by representatives of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina.
- 1923: The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
- 1927: Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
- 1939: World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
- 1942: World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
- 1943: World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete during the Nazi occupation of Greece.
- 1944: World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
- 1973: Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976: Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
- 1976: Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
- 1976: Dozens are killed by Thai police and right-wing paramilitaries in the Thammasat University massacre; afterwards, the Seni Pramoj government is toppled in a military coup led by Sangad Chaloryu.
- 1977: The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
- 1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
- 1981: NLM CityHopper Flight 431 crashes in Moerdijk after taking off from Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands, killing all 17 people on board.
- 1985: Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
- 1987: Fiji becomes a republic.
- 1990: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.
- 1995: The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
- 2007: Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
- 2010: Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
- 2018: The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
- 2022: Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Rođeni na datum: 6. listopada 2024
Rođeni na datum: 6. listopada 2024
- 649: Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ (d. around 696)
- 1289: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
- 1459: Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
- 1510: John Caius, English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College (d. 1573)
- 1510: Rowland Taylor, English priest and martyr (d. 1555)
- 1552: Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610)
- 1555: Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (d. 1604)
- 1565: Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)
- 1573: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1624)
- 1576: Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (d. 1612)
- 1591: Settimia Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1638)
- 1610: Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general (d. 1690)
- 1626: Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (d. 1684)
- 1716: George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1771)
- 1729: Sarah Crosby, English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (d. 1804)
- 1732: John Broadwood, Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (d. 1812)
- 1738: Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
- 1742: Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (d. 1755)
- 1744: James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813)
- 1767: Henri Christophe, Grenadian-Haitian king (d. 1820)
- 1769: Isaac Brock, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1812)
- 1773: John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (d. 1835)
- 1773: Louis Philippe I of France (d. 1850)
- 1801: Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (d. 1888)
- 1803: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)
- 1820: James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (d. 1892)
- 1820: Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887)
- 1831: Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1916)
- 1838: Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910)
- 1846: George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914)
- 1862: Albert J. Beveridge, American historian and politician (d. 1927)
- 1866: Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932)
- 1874: Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
- 1876: Ernest Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1941)
- 1882: Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937)
- 1886: Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1887: Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)
- 1888: Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
- 1891: Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)
- 1893: Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956)
- 1895: Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (d. 1981)
- 1896: David Howard, American film director (d. 1941)
- 1897: Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic (d. 1991)
- 1900: Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991)
- 1900: Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
- 1900: Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- 1901: Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (d. 1990)
- 1903: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1905: Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (d. 1998)
- 1906: Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1906: Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (d. 1946)
- 1908: Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1908: Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)
- 1910: Barbara Castle, English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State (d. 2002)
- 1910: Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (d. 1974)
- 1912: Perkins Bass, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
- 1913: Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter and photographer (d. 1985)
- 1914: Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 2002)
- 1914: Joan Littlewood, English director and playwright (d. 2002)
- 1915: Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and activist (d. 2007)
- 1915: Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (d. 1983)
- 1915: Alice Timander, Swedish dentist and actress (d. 2007)
- 1916: Chiang Wei-kuo, Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)
- 1917: Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (d. 1977)
- 1918: Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
- 1918: André Pilette, French-Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)
- 1919: Tommy Lawton, English footballer and coach (d. 1996)
- 1920: John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, English lawyer and judge (d. 2005)
- 1921: Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)
- 1921: Joseph Lowery, American minister and activist (d. 2020)
- 1921: Giovanni Michelotti, Italian automotive designer (d. 1980)
- 1922: Joe Frazier, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
- 1922: Teala Loring, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1923: Robert Kuok, Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor
- 1923: Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (d. 2015)
- 1925: Shana Alexander, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
- 1927: Bill King, American sportscaster (d. 2005)
- 1928: Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (d. 2015)
- 1928: Barbara Werle, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- 1929: George Mattos, American pole vaulter (d. 2012)
- 1930: Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1930: Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2015)
- 1931: Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1931: Eileen Derbyshire, English actress
- 1931: Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
- 1933: Prince Mukarram Jah, 8th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 2023)
- 1934: Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
- 1935: Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2018)
- 1936: Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist (d. 2013)
- 1938: Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (d. 2011)
- 1939: Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
- 1939: Jack Cullen, American baseball player
- 1939: Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
- 1939: Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic
- 1939: John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician
- 1940: Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
- 1941: Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (d. 1987)
- 1942: Dan Christensen, American painter (d. 2007)
- 1942: Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
- 1942: Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
- 1943: Richard Caborn, English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
- 1943: Peter Dowding, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia
- 1943: Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
- 1943: Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
- 1944: Merzak Allouache, Algerian director and screenwriter
- 1944: Patrick Cordingley, English general
- 1944: Boris Mikhailov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
- 1944: Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1977)
- 1945: Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
- 1946: Lloyd Doggett, American lawyer and politician
- 1946: Tony Greig, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2012)
- 1946: John Monie, Australian rugby league player and coach
- 1946: Eddie Villanueva, Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
- 1946: Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)
- 1947: Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)
- 1947: Klaus Dibiasi, Italian diver
- 1947: Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
- 1948: Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician
- 1948: Glenn Branca, American guitarist and composer (d. 2018)
- 1949: Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
- 1949: Penny Junor, English journalist and author
- 1949: Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949: Leslie Moonves, American businessman
- 1949: Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer
- 1950: David Brin, American physicist and author
- 1951: Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1951: Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator
- 1951: Gavin Sutherland, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1951: Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1952: Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and author
- 1953: Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer
- 1954: Bill Buford, American author and journalist
- 1954: David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1955: Tony Dungy, American football player and coach
- 1956: Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician (d. 2023)
- 1956: Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
- 1957: Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
- 1958: Sergei Mylnikov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2017)
- 1959: Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2012)
- 1959: Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
- 1959: Brian Higgins, American politician
- 1959: Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler
- 1960: Richard Jobson, Scottish singer, songwriter director and producer.
- 1961: Miyuki Matsuda, Japanese actress
- 1961: Paul Sansome, English footballer
- 1961: Ben Summerskill, English businessman and journalist
- 1962: David Baker, American biologist and academic
- 1962: Rich Yett, American baseball player
- 1963: Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and coach
- 1963: Elisabeth Shue, American actress
- 1964: Ricky Berry, American basketball player (d. 1989)
- 1964: Mark Field, German-English lawyer and politician
- 1964: Tom Jager, American swimmer and coach
- 1964: Miltos Manetas, Greek painter
- 1964: Knut Storberget, Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice
- 1964: Matthew Sweet, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1965: Jürgen Kohler, German footballer and manager
- 1965: Peg O'Connor, American philosopher and academic
- 1965: Steve Scalise, American lawyer and politician
- 1965: Rubén Sierra, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
- 1965: John McWhorter, American academic and linguist
- 1966: Melania Mazzucco, Italian author
- 1966: Jacqueline Obradors, American actress
- 1966: Niall Quinn, Irish footballer and manager
- 1966: Tommy Stinson, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1967: Kennet Andersson, Swedish footballer
- 1967: Svend Karlsen, Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
- 1967: Steven Woolfe, English barrister and politician
- 1968: Bjarne Goldbæk, Danish footballer and sportscaster
- 1968: Bob May, American golfer
- 1969: Byron Black, Zimbabwean golfer
- 1969: Muhammad V of Kelantan, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- 1970: Amy Jo Johnson, American actress
- 1970: Maria Kannegaard, Danish-Norwegian pianist and composer
- 1970: Shauna MacDonald, Canadian actress and producer
- 1970: Darren Oliver, American baseball player
- 1971: Phil Bennett, English race car driver
- 1971: Takis Gonias, Greek footballer and manager
- 1971: Emily Mortimer, English actress
- 1971: Alan Stubbs, English footballer, coach, and manager
- 1972: Daniel Cavanagh, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1972: Anders Iwers, Swedish bass player
- 1972: Jarrod Moseley, Australian golfer
- 1972: Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
- 1972: Ryu Si-won, South Korean actor and singer
- 1972: Ko So-young, South Korean model and actress
- 1973: Jeff B. Davis, American comedian, actor, and singer
- 1973: Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- 1973: Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer and manager
- 1973: Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1974: Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer and manager
- 1974: Kenny Jönsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- 1974: Seema Kennedy, British politician
- 1974: Jeremy Sisto, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974: Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese shooter
- 1975: Reon King, Guyanese cricketer
- 1976: Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1976: Brett Gelman, American actor and comedian
- 1976: Magdalena Kučerová, Czech-German tennis player
- 1976: Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer and coach
- 1977: Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977: Melinda Doolittle, American singer-songwriter
- 1977: Shimon Gershon, Israeli footballer and singer
- 1977: Jamie Laurie, American singer-songwriter
- 1977: Vladimir Manchev, Bulgarian footballer and manager
- 1977: Wes Ramsey, American actor
- 1978: Carolina Gynning, Swedish model, actress, and singer
- 1978: Ricky Hatton, English boxer and promoter
- 1978: Liu Yang, Chinese astronaut
- 1979: David Di Tommaso, French footballer (d. 2005)
- 1979: Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager
- 1979: Richard Seymour, American football player
- 1979: Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter
- 1980: Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1980: Wes Durston, English cricketer
- 1980: Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
- 1981: Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
- 1981: José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1982: Levon Aronian, Armenian chess grandmaster
- 1982: Latonia Blackman, Barbadian netball player
- 1982: Will Butler, American musician and composer
- 1982: Fábio Júnior dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1982: Hideki Mutoh, Japanese race car driver
- 1982: Paul Smith, English boxer
- 1983: Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
- 1984: Morné Morkel, South African cricketer
- 1984: Joanna Pacitti, American singer-songwriter
- 1985: Mitchell Cole, English footballer (d. 2012)
- 1985: Sylvia Fowles, American basketball player
- 1985: Sandra Góngora, Mexican ten-pin bowler
- 1985: Tarmo Kink, Estonian footballer
- 1986: Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1986: Olivia Thirlby, American actress
- 1987: Joe Lewis, English footballer
- 1987: Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player
- 1988: Trey Edward Shults, American film director
- 1989: Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1989: Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989: Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
- 1990: Quincy Acy, American basketball player and coach
- 1990: Scarlett Byrne, English actress
- 1990: Jordan Hamilton, American basketball player
- 1990: Marcus Johansson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1990: Nazem Kadri, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990: Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress
- 1991: Roshon Fegan, American actor, rapper, and dancer
- 1992: Josh Archibald, Canadian-American ice hockey player
- 1992: Taylor Paris, Canadian rugby player
- 1993: Adam Gemili, English sprinter
- 1993: Jourdan Miller, American fashion model
- 1993: Joe Rafferty, English-Irish footballer
- 1993: Nail Yakupov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1994: Jake Guentzel, American ice hockey player
- 1994: Lee Joo-heon, South Korean rapper and songwriter
- 1997: Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
- 1999: Niko Kari, Finnish race car driver
- 1999: Trevor Lawrence, American football player
- 2000: Jazz Jennings, American internet personality
- 2000: Kyle Pitts, American football player
- 2000: Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer
- 2002: Jonathan Kuminga, Congolese basketball player
- 2004: Bronny James, American basketball player
Preminuli na datum: 6. listopada 2024
Preminuli na datum: 6. listopada 2024
- 23: Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin Dynasty
- 404: Aelia Eudoxia, Byzantine empress
- 836: Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine general
- 869: Ermentrude of Orléans, Frankish queen (b. 823)
- 877: Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 823)
- 997: Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Japanese samurai (b. 912)
- 1014: Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire
- 1019: Frederick of Luxembourg, count of Moselgau (b. 965)
- 1145: Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
- 1090: Adalbero, bishop of Würzburg
- 1101: Bruno of Cologne, German monk, founded the Carthusian Order
- 1173: Engelbert III, margrave of Istria
- 1349: Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1312)
- 1398: Jeong Dojeon, Korean prime minister (b. 1342)
- 1413: Dawit I, ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1536: William Tyndale, English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
- 1553: Şehzade Mustafa, Ottoman prince (b. 1515)
- 1559: William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (b. 1487)
- 1640: Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (b. 1588)
- 1641: Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
- 1644: Elisabeth of France, queen of Spain and Portugal (b. 1602)
- 1660: Paul Scarron, French poet and author (b. 1610)
- 1661: Guru Har Rai, Indian 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
- 1688: Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1652)
- 1762: Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)
- 1819: Charles Emmanuel IV, king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
- 1829: Pierre Derbigny, French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
- 1836: Johannes Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
- 1873: Paweł Strzelecki, Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
- 1883: Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
- 1891: Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (b. 1809)
- 1912: Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
- 1923: Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
- 1942: Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
- 1945: Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
- 1947: Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
- 1951: Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
- 1951: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- 1959: Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
- 1962: Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1968: Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
- 1969: Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)
- 1969: Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
- 1972: Cléo de Verberena, Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)
- 1973: Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
- 1973: François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
- 1973: Dick Laan, Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
- 1973: Dennis Price, English actor (b. 1915)
- 1973: Margaret Wilson, American missionary and author (b. 1882)
- 1974: Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
- 1976: Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
- 1978: Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
- 1979: Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)
- 1980: Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)
- 1980: Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
- 1981: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 1983: Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
- 1985: Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1986: Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
- 1989: Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1990: Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)
- 1991: Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
- 1992: Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
- 1992: Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)
- 1993: Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (b. 1913)
- 1993: Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
- 1995: Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (b. 1961)
- 1997: Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
- 1998: Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 1999: Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
- 1999: Gorilla Monsoon, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)
- 2000: Richard Farnsworth, American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
- 2001: Arne Harris, American director and producer (b. 1934)
- 2002: Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
- 2006: Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)
- 2006: Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 2006: Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
- 2006: Wilson Tucker, American author and critic (b. 1914)
- 2007: Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1921)
- 2007: Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)
- 2008: Peter Cox, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1925)
- 2009: Douglas Campbell, Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2010: Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)
- 2010: Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (b. 1966)
- 2011: Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (b. 1932)
- 2012: Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
- 2012: Anthony John Cooke, English organist and composer (b. 1931)
- 2012: Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)
- 2012: Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
- 2012: Joseph Meyer, American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (b. 1941)
- 2012: B. Satya Narayan Reddy, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (b. 1927)
- 2012: J. J. C. Smart, English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
- 2013: Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
- 2013: Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)
- 2013: Paul Rogers, English actor (b. 1917)
- 2013: Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921)
- 2014: Vic Braden, American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)
- 2014: Igor Mitoraj, German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
- 2014: Diane Nyland, Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)
- 2014: Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
- 2014: Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)
- 2014: Feridun Buğeker, Turkish football player (b. 1933)
- 2015: Árpád Göncz, Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (b. 1922)
- 2015: Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (b. 1926)
- 2015: Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1923)
- 2017: Ralphie May, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)
- 2017: David Marks, British architect, designer of the London Eye (b. 1952)
- 2018: Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2018: Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (b. 1933)
- 2019: Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
- 2019: Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (b. 1936)
- 2019: Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1931)
- 2020: Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)
- 2020: Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)