July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
- 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 – The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Viking.
- 1139 – Battle of Ourique: The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques.
- 1261 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1547 – Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
- 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 – James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.
- 1722 – Dummer's War begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.
- 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later move to Louisiana, while others resettle in New Brunswick.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1759 – French and Indian War: in Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris, France promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.
- 1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
- 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- 1799 – At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
- 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
- 1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
- 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
- 1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
- 1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1898 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
- 1908 – Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
- 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
- 1915 – RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front.
- 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1920 – Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1920 – France captures Damascus.
- 1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
- 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
- 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
- 1952 – The U.S. non-incorporated territory of Puerto Rico adopts a constitution.
- 1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
- 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- 1958 – The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.
- 1959 – SR.N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours.
- 1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
- 1973 – Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
- 1976 – Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1978 – Puerto Rico police assassinate two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
- 1978 – Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
- 1979 – Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 1993 – Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call Seven-Day War.
- 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
- 1995 – A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- 1996 – In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
- 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
- 2007 – Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president.
- 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
Births
- 1016 – Casimir I the Restorer, Polish Duke (d. 1058)
- 1336 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1404)
- 1404 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
- 1421 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
- 1562 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord (d. 1611)
- 1654 – Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
- 1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, German composer (d. 1714)
- 1658 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll (d. 1703)
- 1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch dramatist and poet (d. 1756)
- 1711 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, German physician, mathematician, and writer (d. 1778)
- 1750 – Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806)
- 1753 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French navy officer (d. 1810)
- 1797 – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889)
- 1799 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
- 1832 – Augustus Clifford, English navy officer (d. 1877)
- 1839 – Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
- 1844 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
- 1848 – Arthur Balfour, English politician, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
- 1860 – Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (d. 1917)
- 1867 – Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
- 1867 – Alexander Rummler, American painter (d. 1959)
- 1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
- 1875 – Jim Corbett, Indian hunter, conservationist, and author (d. 1955)
- 1882 – George S. Rentz, American navy captain, recipient of the Navy Cross (d. 1942)
- 1883 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
- 1886 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish hunter and writer (d. 1946)
- 1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Gavrilo Princip, Serbian assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1918)
- 1895 – Yvonne Printemps, French actress and singer (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Ingeborg Spangsfeldt, Danish actress (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Jack Perrin, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1901 – Ruth Krauss, American author (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1994)
- 1905 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English writer and illustrator (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
- 1908 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1908 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Woody Strode, American actor and athlete (d. 1994)
- 1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1944)
- 1916 – Lucien Saulnier, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1917 – Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
- 1920 – Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
- 1921 – Lionel Terray, French mountaineer (d. 1965)
- 1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Frank Church, American politician (d. 1984)
- 1924 – Scotch Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1925 – Benny Benjamin, American drummer (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1969)
- 1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1926 – Whitey Lockman, American baseball player(d. 2009)
- 1927 – Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 – Midge Decter, American journalist and author
- 1927 – Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan politician (d. 1982)
- 1928 – Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 2012)
- 1928 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- 1928 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (d. 2008)
- 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
- 1929 – Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1930 – Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
- 1930 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer (d. 2010)
- 1930 – Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian writer (d. 1990)
- 1930 – Annie Ross, English singer and actress (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
- 1932 – Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut
- 1934 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
- 1934 – Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter
- 1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress
- 1935 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian arms-dealer and businessman
- 1935 – John Robinson, American football coach
- 1935 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Lars Werner, Swedish politician
- 1936 – Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver
- 1936 – Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect
- 1937 – Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, English archeologist
- 1941 – Manny Charlton, Spanish-Scottish guitarist (Nazareth and Manny Charlton Band)
- 1941 – Peter Suschitzky, Polish-English cinematographer
- 1941 – Nate Thurmond, American basketball player
- 1941 – Emmett Till, American murder victim (d. 1955)
- 1942 – Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Seekers)
- 1943 – Jim McCarty, English singer and musician (The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Illusion)
- 1943 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
- 1945 – Donna Theodore, American actress and singer
- 1946 – José Areas, Nicaraguan musician (Santana)
- 1946 – John Gibson, American radio host
- 1946 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer (I Threes)
- 1948 – Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1984)
- 1950 – Mark Clarke, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Colosseum, Natural Gas, and Uriah Heep)
- 1951 – Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
- 1951 – Verdine White, American bass player and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1952 – Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect
- 1953 – Robert Zoellick, American politician
- 1954 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (d. 1994)
- 1954 – Ken Greer, Canadian musician and producer (Red Rider)
- 1954 – Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
- 1954 – Jochem Ziegert, German footballer
- 1955 – Iman], Somali model and actress
- 1955 – Randall Bewley, American guitarist and songwriter (Pylon) (d. 2009)
- 1955 – Kike Elomaa, Finnish bodybuilder
- 1955 – Tom McCamus, Canadian actor
- 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
- 1957 – Steve Podborski, Canadian skier
- 1958 – Alexei Filippenko, American astrophysicist and educator
- 1958 – Thurston Moore, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, The Coachmen, and Dim Stars)
- 1959 – Anatoly Onoprienko, Ukrainian serial Killer
- 1960 – Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
- 1961 – Bobbie Eakes, American actress
- 1961 – Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
- 1961 – Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
- 1962 – Doug Drabek, American baseball player
- 1963 – Denis Coderre, Canadian politician
- 1963 – Julian Hodgson, English chess player
- 1964 – Breuk Iversen, American designer and writer
- 1965 – Marty Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress
- 1966 – Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland)
- 1966 – Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1966 – Christine Quinn, American politician
- 1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- 1967 – Wendy Raquel Robinson, American actress
- 1967 – Tommy Skjerven, Norwegian football referee
- 1968 – Rudi Bryson, South African cricketer
- 1968 – Shi Tao, Chinese journalist
- 1969 – Jon Barry, American basketball player
- 1971 – Chloë Annett, English actress
- 1971 – Roger Creager, American singer-songwriter
- 1971 – Tracy Murray, American basketball player
- 1971 – Billy Wagner, American baseball player
- 1973 – David Denman, American actor
- 1973 – Dani Filth, English singer-songwriter, actor, and author (Cradle of Filth)
- 1973 – Hu Jia, Chinese activist and dissident
- 1973 – Mur Lafferty, American pod-caster and writer
- 1973 – Kevin Phillips, English footballer
- 1973 – Michael C. Williams, American actor
- 1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, American actor
- 1974 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese wrestler
- 1975 – Jody Craddock, English footballer
- 1975 – Jean-Claude Darcheville, French footballer
- 1976 – Tera Patrick, American porn actress
- 1976 – Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet
- 1976 – Javier Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1977 – Ahmad Batebi, Iranian activist
- 1977 – Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
- 1978 – Louise Brown, English test tube baby
- 1978 – Gerard Warren, American football player
- 1979 – Amy Adams, American singer
- 1979 – Peter Brame, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1979 – Ali Carter, English snooker player
- 1979 – Stefanie Hertel, German yodeler
- 1979 – Juan Pablo Di Pace, Argentine actor, model, and director
- 1980 – Soo Ae, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Shawn Riggans, American baseball player
- 1980 – Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver
- 1980 – David Wachs, American actor
- 1980 – Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Conor Casey, American soccer player
- 1981 – Constantinos Charalambidis, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1981 – Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer
- 1981 – Mac Lethal, American rapper and producer
- 1981 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1982 – Jason Dundas, Australian television host and actor
- 1982 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1982 – Monde Zondeki, South African cricketer
- 1983 – Richie Chance, American actor and producer
- 1983 – Nenad Krstić, Serbian basketball player
- 1984 – Lauriane Gilliéron, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2005
- 1984 – Loukas Mavrokefalidis, Greek basketball player
- 1985 – Kitty Brucknell, English singer
- 1985 – James Lafferty, American actor
- 1985 – Jasmine Lennard, English model
- 1985 – Nelson Piquet, Jr., Brazilian race car driver
- 1985 – Hugo Rodallega, Colombian footballer
- 1985 – Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
- 1986 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Abraham Gneki Guié, Ivorian footballer
- 1986 – Sumela Kay, Canadian actress
- 1986 – Jessi Malay, American singer (No Secrets)
- 1986 – Barbara Meier, German model
- 1986 – Ahtyba Rubin, American football player
- 1987 – Michael Welch, American actor
- 1988 – Sarah Geronimo, Filipino singer and actress
- 1988 – Heather Marks, Canadian model
- 1988 – Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
- 1989 – Andrew Caldwell, American actor
- 1989 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
- 1990 – Andi Eigenmann, Filipino actress
- 1992 – Lil Phat, American rapper (d. 2012)
- 2000 – Preston Bailey, American actor
Deaths
- 306 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman emperor (b. 250)
- 1409 – Martin I of Sicily (b. 1376)
- 1471 – Thomas à Kempis, German priest and mystic (b. 1380)
- 1472 – Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, French military leader (b. 1394)
- 1492 – Pope Innocent VIII (b. 1432)
- 1572 – Isaac Luria, Jewish mystic (b. 1534)
- 1616 – Andreas Libavius, German physician and chemist (b. 1550)
- 1643 – Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)
- 1676 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (b. 1604)
- 1681 – Urian Oakes, English-American minister and educator (b. 1631)
- 1790 – Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer, writer, and educator (b. 1723)
- 1790 – William Livingston, American politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (b. 1723)
- 1791 – Isaac Low, American politician (b. 1735)
- 1794 – André Chénier, French writer (b. 1762)
- 1826 – Kondraty Ryleyev, Russian poet and revolutionary (b. 1795)
- 1834 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)
- 1842 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (b. 1766)
- 1843 – Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
- 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, Mexican outlaw (b. 1829)
- 1861 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (b. 1805)
- 1865 – James Barry, English surgeon (b. 1799)
- 1866 – Floride Calhoun, American wife of John C. Calhoun (b. 1792)
- 1887 – John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
- 1934 – François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
- 1934 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
- 1952 – Herbert Murrill, English composer (b. 1909)
- 1959 – Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish rabbi (b. 1888)
- 1962 – Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian jurist (b. 1879)
- 1963 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (b. 1877)
- 1967 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (b. 1878)
- 1971 – Leroy Robertson, American composer (b. 1896)
- 1973 – Louis St. Laurent, Canadian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
- 1980 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)
- 1982 – Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
- 1984 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
- 1986 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
- 1988 – Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
- 1989 – Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (b. 1943)
- 1992 – Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1932)
- 1997 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
- 1998 – Tal Farlow, American guitarist (b. 1921)
- 1998 – Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
- 2000 – Rudi Faßnacht, German football coach and manager (b. 1934)
- 2002 – Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Erik Brann, American singer and guitarist (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1950)
- 2003 – John Schlesinger, English director (b. 1926)
- 2004 – John Passmore, Australian philosopher (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Carl Brashear, American navy officer (b. 1931)
- 2006 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian-Israeli poet and philologist (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer (b. 1952)
- 2007 – Jesse Marunde, American strongman (b. 1979)
- 2008 – Jeff Fehring, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
- 2008 – Tracy Hall, American chemist (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Randy Pausch, American computer scientist and educator (b. 1960)
- 2009 – Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Alexis Cohen, American singer (b. 1984)
- 2009 – Vernon Forrest, American boxer (b. 1971)
- 2009 – Harry Patch, English soldier and super-centenarian (b. 1898)
- 2010 – Redford White, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1955)
- 2011 – Michael Cacoyannis, Greek director (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Shelby Harris, American super-centenarian (b. 1901)
- 2012 – B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960)
- 2012 – Greg Mohns, Canadian football coach (b. 1950)
- 2012 – Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (b. 1947)
Holidays and observances
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