May 26 is the 146th day of the year (147th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 219 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 47 BC – Julius Caesar visits Tarsus on his way to Pontus, where he meets enthusiastic support, but where, according to Cicero, Cassius is planning to kill him at this point.
- 17 – Germanicus returns to Rome as a conquering hero; he celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
- 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Empire defeats the Armenians militarily but guarantees them freedom to openly practice Christianity.
- 946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.
- 1135 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of all of Spain".
- 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
- 1328 – William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
- 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
- 1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
- 1644 – Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese and Spanish forces both claim victory in the Battle of Montijo.
- 1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
- 1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
- 1770 – The Orlov Revolt, an attempt to revolt against the Ottoman Empire before the Greek War of Independence, ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
- 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
- 1821 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
- 1822 – 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
- 1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- 1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
- 1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
- 1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
- 1896 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- 1900 – Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
- 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
- 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
- 1917 – Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon, killing 101 people and injuring 689.
- 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
- 1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
- 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Gazala takes place.
- 1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557, which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
- 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
- 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
- 1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
- 1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
- 1981 – Prime Minister of Italy Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
- 1981 – An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
- 1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
- 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
- 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
- 1992 – The blockade of Dubrovnik is broken. Following this, the siege of Dubrovnik ends in the next months.
- 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
- 1998 – The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
- 2001 – The CIA declassifies the paragraph 39 of the report about the Iraqi nuclear program from January 1991 in the Gulf War.
- 2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
- 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2008 – Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3 million.
Births
- 1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
- 1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
- 1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
- 1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
- 1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (d. 1722)
- 1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
- 1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
- 1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
- 1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
- 1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
- 1863 – Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (d. 1917)
- 1865 – Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
- 1867 – Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
- 1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
- 1880 – W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (d. 1967)
- 1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer, dancer, pianist, and actress (d. 1946)
- 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1950)
- 1893 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
- 1893 – Eugene Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) (d. 1962)
- 1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
- 1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
- 1898 – Ernst Bacon, American composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1990)
- 1898 – Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (d. 1965)
- 1899 – Antonio Barrette, French-Canadian politician (d. 1968)
- 1899 – Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
- 1904 – George Formby, English singer-songwriter, actor, and comedian (d. 1961)
- 1904 – Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist (d. 2002)
- 1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
- 1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
- 1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese politician
- 1909 – Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
- 1909 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician (d. 1969)
- 1910 – Imi Lichtenfeld, Israeli martial artist (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1912 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1992)
- 1912 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician (d. 1989)
- 1912 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Pierre Daninos, French writer and humorist (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Josef Manger, German weightlifter (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Frankie Manning, American dancer (d. 2009)
- 1915 – Vernon Alley, American jazz bassist (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1915 – Antonia Forest, English author (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Moondog, American composer, musician, and poet (d. 1999)
- 1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
- 1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
- 1919 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito) (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Inge Borkh, German soprano
- 1921 – Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (d. 2009)
- 1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1923 – Roy Dotrice, English actor
- 1925 – Alec McCowen, English actor
- 1926 – Miles Davis, American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (d. 1991)
- 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
- 1928 – Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist (d. 2011)
- 1929 – J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian
- 1930 – Karim Emami, Iranian translator, editor, and critic (d. 2005)
- 1932 – Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
- 1935 – Sheila Steafel, South African–English actress
- 1938 – William Bolcom, American composer and pianist
- 1938 – Pauline Parker, New Zealand murderer
- 1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
- 1938 – Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
- 1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian educator, poet, and activist (d. 1989)
- 1939 – Jaki Liebezeit German drummer (Can)
- 1939 – Brent Musburger, American sportscaster
- 1940 – Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French-Canadian politician
- 1940 – Levon Helm, American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Band and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band) (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Aldrich Ames, American CIA officer and analyst
- 1941 – Reg Bundy, English drag queen performer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
- 1941 – Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
- 1942 – Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Indian spiritual figure
- 1943 – Erica Terpstra, Dutch swimmer and politician
- 1944 – Philip Edmonston, Canadian politician and writer
- 1944 – Sam Posey, American race car driver and author
- 1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
- 1945 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician
- 1946 – Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian gymnast and coach
- 1946 – Mick Ronson, English musician, songwriter, and producer (The Spiders from Mars and Mott the Hoople) (d. 1993)
- 1948 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter and musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer, developed the first wiki
- 1949 – Pam Grier, American actress
- 1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, American actor and singer
- 1949 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor
- 1949 – Hank Williams Jr., American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut (d. 2012)
- 1951 – Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
- 1952 – David Meece, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1953 – Kay Hagan, American politician
- 1953 – Michael Portillo, English politician
- 1954 – Marian Gold, German singer-songwriter and musician (Alphaville)
- 1954 – Alan Hollinghurst, English novelist
- 1954 – Denis Lebel, Canadian politician
- 1954 – Danny Rolling, American serial killer (d. 2006)
- 1955 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
- 1955 – Wesley Walker, American football player
- 1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
- 1957 – Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer and composer
- 1957 – François Legault, French-Canadian politician
- 1957 – Kristina Olsen, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1957 – Roberto Ravaglia, Italian race car driver
- 1957 – Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho politician and educator
- 1958 – Margaret Colin, American actress
- 1958 – Howard Goodall, English composer
- 1958 – Moinul Ahsan Saber, Bangladeshi writer
- 1959 – Steve Hanley, English bassist and songwriter (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
- 1959 – Ole Bornedal, Danish actor, director, and producer
- 1960 – Doug Hutchison, American actor
- 1960 – Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese race car driver
- 1960 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player
- 1961 – Tarsem Singh, Indian director
- 1962 – Genie Francis, American actress
- 1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor
- 1963 – Claude Legault, Canadian actor
- 1964 – Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer
- 1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor
- 1964 – Argiris Pedoulakis, Greek basketball coach
- 1965 – Hazel Irvine, Scottish-English television host
- 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- 1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
- 1967 – Phil Doyle, Australian writer
- 1967 – Kevin Moore, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (OSI, Dream Theater, and Chroma Key)
- 1968 – Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark
- 1968 – Pat Kenney, American baseball player, wrestler, and agent
- 1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish director
- 1968 – Steve Sedgley, English footballer
- 1969 – John Baird, Canadian politician
- 1969 – Musetta Vander, South African actress
- 1970 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
- 1971 – Timothy Allen, English photographer and journalist
- 1971 – Zaher Andary, Lebanese Footballer
- 1971 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, screenwriter, producer, and composer
- 1972 – Patsy Palmer, English actress
- 1972 – Kylie Ireland, American porn actress, director, producer, publicist, and radio host
- 1974 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
- 1975 – Nicki Aycox, American actress
- 1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
- 1976 – Justin Pierre, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and filmmaker (Motion City Soundtrack)
- 1976 – Kenny Florian, American mixed martial artist
- 1977 – Nikos Hatzivrettas, Greek basketball player
- 1977 – Mark Hunter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1977 – Misaki Ito, Japanese actress and model
- 1977 – Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
- 1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
- 1978 – Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Microphones and Mount Eerie)
- 1978 – Fabio Firmani, Italian footballer
- 1979 – Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
- 1979 – Ashley Massaro, American wrestler and manager
- 1979 – Mehmet Okur, Turkish basketball player
- 1981 – Robert Copeland, Australian footballer
- 1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
- 1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
- 1981 – Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Fray)
- 1981 – Jason Manford, English comedian and actor
- 1982 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
- 1982 – David Reed, English writer and comedian
- 1983 – Demy de Zeeuw, Dutch footballer
- 1983 – Henry Holland, English fashion designer
- 1987 – Valerie Garcia, Filipino actress
- 1987 – Olcay Şahan, Turkish footballer
- 1987 – Josh Thomas, Australian comedian, actor, and writer
- 1988 – Joel Selwood, Australian rules footballer
- 1988 – Damian Williams, American football player
- 1989 – Paula Findlay, Canadian triathlete
- 1989 – Nick Roud, English actor
- 1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress, singer, and dancer
Deaths
- 451 – Vartan Mamikonian, Armenian warrior
- 604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Benedictine monk, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury
- 735 – Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 673)
- 818 – Ali ar-Ridha, Islamic Shia Imam (b. 766)
- 946 – Edmund I of England (b. 921)
- 1055 – Adalbert, Margrave of Austria (b. 985)
- 1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
- 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1447)
- 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet (b. 1498)
- 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian priest (b. 1515)
- 1647 – Alse Young, American woman executed for witchcraft (b. 1600)
- 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
- 1651 – Jeane Gardiner, English woman executed for witchcraft
- 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
- 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
- 1685 – Charles II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
- 1703 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and civil servant (b. 1633)
- 1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1672)
- 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
- 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
- 1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
- 1818 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza, Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader (b. 1785)
- 1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
- 1831 – Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
- 1840 – Sidney Smith, English admiral (b. 1764)
- 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
- 1883 – Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Algerian politician and military leader (b. 1808)
- 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
- 1902 – Almon Brown Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
- 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
- 1907 – Ida Saxton McKinley, American wife of William McKinley, 25th First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
- 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious figure, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement (b. 1835)
- 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer (b. 1849)
- 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer, cellist, and conductor, founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (b. 1859)
- 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, English financier and politician (b. 1860)
- 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1897)
- 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner, co-founder of Mayo Clinic (b. 1865)
- 1943 – Edsel Ford, American businessman (b. 1893)
- 1943 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer, organist, and educator (b. 1864)
- 1944 – Christian Wirth, German police and SS officer (b. 1885)
- 1948 – Theodor Morell, German nazi physician (b. 1886)
- 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
- 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (b. 1900)
- 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
- 1966 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (b. 1894)
- 1968 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
- 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
- 1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation pioneer and engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
- 1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
- 1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Juan Maino, Chilean photographer and activist, leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement
- 1977 – William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
- 1978 – Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
- 1979 – George Brent, English actor (b. 1899)
- 1989 – Don Revie, English footballer (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
- 1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
- 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (b. 1937)
- 2001 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2001 – Moven Mahachi, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1952)
- 2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
- 2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founder of Lesney Products (b. 1918)
- 2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
- 2006 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
- 2006 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Jack Edward Oliver, English cartoonist and writer (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2008 – Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian cyclist (b. 1973)
- 2009 – Stanley Chapman, English architect, designer, translator, and writer (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (b. 1941)
- 2009 – Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
- 2010 – Jean Constantin, Romanian actor (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (b. 1912)
- 2010 – Christopher Moran, English air marshal (b. 1956)
- 2010 – Kieran Phelan, Irish politician (b. 1949)
- 2010 – Jarvis Williams, American football player (b. 1965)
- 2011 – Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author, and playwright (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Orhan Boran, Turkish actor and comedian (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Arthur Decabooter, Belgian cyclist (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Leo Dillon, American artist (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Rudy Eugene, American criminal and cannibal (b. 1981)
- 2012 – Stephen Healey, English army officer (b. 1982)
- 2012 – Hiroshi Miyazawa, Japanese politician (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Hans Schmidt, Canadian wrestler (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Roy Wilson, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson) (b. 1940)
Holidays and observances
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