September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
- 337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
- 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
- 1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- 1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1561 – The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
- 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
- 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1855 – Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922 – The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
- 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
- 1924 – Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926 – The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1939 – World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
- 1939 – Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
- 1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 – Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
- 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
- 1990 – 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
- 1991 – Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 1995 – The debut of the Sony Playstation.
- 1999 – The beginning of the Y2K bug, the debut of the Dreamcast, and the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.
- 2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
- 2001 – Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
- 2001 – At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
- 2004 – 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2009 – At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- 2010 – A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a "wall of fire" more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high.
Births
- 214 – Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
- 384 – Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 1349 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 1427 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
- 1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- 1585 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- 1629 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- 1656 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, German Baroque composer (d. 1746)
- 1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
- 1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
- 1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
- 1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
- 1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 – William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
- 1755 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
- 1777 – James Carr, U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
- 1778 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
- 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1853 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
- 1855 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-German author of books on nationalism and race (d. 1927)
- 1855 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1863 – Herbert Henry Ball, Ontario Politician and King's Printer (d. 1943)
- 1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
- 1872 – Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese nationalist (d. 1926)
- 1873 – Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1877 – James Agate, British diarist and critic (d. 1947)
- 1877 – Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
- 1878 – Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- 1878 – Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
- 1885 – Miriam Licette, English operatic soprano (d. 1969)
- 1887 – Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1882 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1890 – Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1892 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- 1894 – Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1894 – Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian politician and trade unionist (d. 1950)
- 1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
- 1898 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
- 1900 – James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
- 1901 – James Blades, British percussionist (d. 1999)
- 1903 – Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
- 1904 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1904 – Arthur Laing, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
- 1905 – Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
- 1905 – Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Shigekazu Shimazaki, Japanese career officer (d. 1945)
- 1911 – Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1911 – John Gorton, Australian Prime Minister (d. 2002)
- 1914 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
- 1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
- 1919 – Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Neil Chotem, Canadian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1922 – Hoyt Curtin, American composer and songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
- 1922 – Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
- 1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Rosita Sokou, Greek journalist, author, playwright and translator
- 1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
- 1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
- 1927 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
- 1928 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d.2007)
- 1929 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Francis Carroll, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1930 – Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
- 1931 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
- 1931 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (d. 2011)
- 1932 – Sylvia Miles, American actress
- 1935 – Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
- 1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1938 – Jay Ward, American baseball player
- 1939 – Arthur Dignam, Australian actor
- 1939 – Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
- 1939 – Ron McDole, American football player
- 1939 – Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1940 – Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman
- 1940 – Joe Negroni, American singer
- 1941 – Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
- 1942 – Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
- 1942 – Danny Kalb, American musician, (Blues Project)
- 1943 – Art LaFleur, American actor
- 1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
- 1946 – Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
- 1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
- 1946 – Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
- 1947 – David Rosenboom, American composer
- 1947 – Freddy Weller, American singer-songwriter
- 1948 – Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
- 1949 – John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
- 1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player
- 1949 – Daniel Pipes, American writer and political commentator
- 1949 – Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
- 1951 – Robert Desiderio, American actor
- 1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- 1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
- 1952 – Angela Cartwright, American actress
- 1952 – Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
- 1952 – David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
- 1953 – John McFee, American singer, songwriter, guitarist
- 1954 – Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
- 1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
- 1957 – Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
- 1958 – Colin Murdock, Canadian voice actor
- 1959 – Tom Foley, American baseball player and coach
- 1959 – Eric Serra, French composer
- 1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor
- 1960 – Bob Hartley, Canadian ice hockey head coach
- 1960 – Bob Stoops, American football coach
- 1963 – Alexandros Alexiou, Greek footballer
- 1963 – Chris Coons, American politician, junior senator of Delaware
- 1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
- 1965 – Dan Majerle, American basketball player
- 1965 – Constance Marie, American actress
- 1965 – Todd Zeile, American baseball player
- 1966 – Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 – Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
- 1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- 1967 – B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
- 1967 – Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
- 1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
- 1967 – Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
- 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer
- 1968 – Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
- 1968 – Clive Mendonca, English footballer
- 1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
- 1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
- 1969 – Natasha Stott Despoja, Australian politician
- 1970 – Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
- 1971 – Eric Stonestreet, American actor
- 1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
- 1972 – Mike Hampton, American baseball player
- 1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
- 1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
- 1972 – Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
- 1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
- 1974 – Vikram Batra, Indian soldier (d. 1999)
- 1974 – Divine Brown, Canadian singer
- 1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
- 1974 – Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
- 1974 – Marcos Curiel, American guitarist (P.O.D.), songwriter, producer.
- 1974 – Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
- 1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian/Italian singer and actor
- 1976 – Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
- 1976 – Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
- 1976 – Emma de Caunes, French film actress
- 1976 – Joey Newman, American film composer
- 1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
- 1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, Borknagar)
- 1977 – Chae Jung An, South Korean actress and singer
- 1977 – Lambros Lambrou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- 1977 – Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
- 1977 – Stuart Price, British electronic musician, songwriter, and record producer
- 1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
- 1978 – Shane Battier, American basketball player
- 1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- 1979 – Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer
- 1979 – Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
- 1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
- 1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
- 1981 – Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
- 1982 – John Kuhn, American football player
- 1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
- 1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
- 1982 – Rômulo Eugênio Togni, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player
- 1983 – Vitolo, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
- 1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
- 1983 – Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
- 1983 – Katy Steele, Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter for Little Birdy
- 1983 – Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
- 1984 – Farrah Gray, American author
- 1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
- 1984 – James Hildreth, English cricketer
- 1984 – Michalis Sifakis, Greek footballer
- 1985 – Yung Berg, American rapper
- 1985 – Sacha Kljestan, American footballer
- 1985 – Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
- 1985 – J. R. Smith, American basketball player
- 1985 – Lilyana Natsir, Indonesian badminton player
- 1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player
- 1986 – Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986 – Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
- 1987 – Joshua Herdman, English actor
- 1987 – Afrojack, Dutch music producer and DJ
- 1987 – Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 – Milan Stanković, Serbian pop and folk singer
- 1988 – Manuela Arbeláez, Colombian model
- 1988 – Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
- 1990 – Haley Reinhart, American singer
- 1991 – Hunter Hayes, American singer
- 1991 – Kelsey Chow, American actress
- 1991 – Danilo Luís Hélio Pereira, Bissauan-born Portuguese footballer
- 1991 – Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 – Ezekiel Fryers, English footballer
- 1992 – Frencheska Farr, Filipina singer
- 1992 – Damian McGinty, Irish singer and actor
- 2000 – Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royalty
Deaths
- 1000 – Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 – King William I of England
- 1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
- 1438 – King Edward of Portugal (b. 1391)
- 1487 – Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
- 1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
- 1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
- 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer, adventurer (b. c.1539)
- 1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen (b. 1523)
- 1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1676 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
- 1680 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1806 – William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
- 1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1834 – James Weddell, British sailor, explorer of Antarctic seas (b. 1787)
- 1841 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
- 1891 – Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
- 1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1907 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
- 1909 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1910 – Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, American solicitor General (b.1859)
- 1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- 1934 – Roger Fry, English artist and critic (b. 1866)
- 1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Charles McLean Andrews, American historian (b. 1863)
- 1943 – Carlo Bergamini, Italian admiral killed in action in the sinking of battleship Roma
- 1945 – Max Ehrmann, American poet (Desiderata) (b. 1872)
- 1955 – Carl Friedberg, German pianist (b. 1872)
- 1958 – Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer (b. 1886)
- 1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
- 1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1975 – John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1976 – Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
- 1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- 1978 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (b. 1892)
- 1979 – Norrie Paramor, British conductor, arranger (b. 1914)
- 1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
- 1981 – Sir Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
- 1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
- 1984 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor, film director (b. 1937)
- 1985 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman (b. 1934)
- 1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1985 – Antonino Votto, Italian opera conductor (b. 1896)
- 1986 – Magda Tagliaferro, BRazilian classical pianist (b. 1893)
- 1990 – Nicola Abbagnano, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
- 1990 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
- 1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
- 1992 – Willie Fennell, Australian comedian, actor (b. 1920)
- 1993 – Helen O'Connell, American singer, actress and dancer (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1996 – Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1997 – General Sir John Hackett, Australian-British soldier, author (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
- 1998 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
- 1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
- 1999 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2000 – Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
- 2001 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military leader (b. 1953)
- 2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Don Willesee, Australian politician (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2005 – John Wayne Glover, Australian serial killer (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
- 2006 – Émilie Mondor, Canadian olympic athlete (b. 1981)
- 2006 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Vasyl Kuk, Ukrainian nationalist, last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (b. 1913)
- 2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
- 2008 – Richard Monette, Canadian actor and director (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
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