February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years ).
Events
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii , Italy.
756 – An Lushan , leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty . He declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan .
1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion .
1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston .
1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation .
1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca .
1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1810 – Peninsular War : Siege of Cádiz begins.
1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison 's first class meets at Madison Female Academy .
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg , Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities , an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire , which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul, Victoria , Australia.
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal .
1905 – in Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with 4 basic specialities.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite , the world's first synthetic plastic .
1913 – Greek military aviators , Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson 's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act , it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military .
1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists .
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States .
1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España ", or Leader of Spain.
1941 – World War II : Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea .
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila .
1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea .
1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic .
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia , never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 – The European Court of Justice 's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect , one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law .
1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame .
1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before . The uprising (locally known as the Limazo ) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi , then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers .
1994 – Markale massacres , more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo .
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny , Chechnya .
2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves , starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion .
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
Births
1505 – Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss historian and author (d. 1572)
1519 – René of Châlon , (d. 1544)
1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612)
1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas , Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669)
1594 – Biagio Marini , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663)
1608 – Gaspar Schott , German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666)
1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , French author (d. 1696)
1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (d. 1708)
1703 – Gilbert Tennent , Irish minister (d. 1764)
1723 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794)
1725 – James Otis, Jr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
1744 – John Jeffries , American physician and surgeon (d. 1819)
1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe , German composer and conductor (d. 1798)
1748 – Elias Stein , Dutch chess player (d. 1812)
1784 – Nancy Lincoln , American mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
1788 – Robert Peel , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850)
1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger , Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871)
1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877)
1808 – Carl Spitzweg , German painter and poet (d. 1885)
1827 – Peter Lalor , Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889)
1810 – Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1824 – Alfonso Capecelatro , Italian cardinal (d. 1912)
1837 – Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (d. 1899)
1840 – John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921)
1840 – Hiram Maxim , American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson , Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903)
1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author and critic (d. 1907)
1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto , Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882)
1848 – Belle Starr , American criminal (d. 1889)
1852 – Terauchi Masatake , Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919)
1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla , Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963)
1876 – Ernie McLea , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931)
1876 – Sailor Young . English cricketer (d. 1964)
1878 – André Citroën , French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935)
1880 – Gabriel Voisin , French pilot and engineer (d. 1973)
1885 – Burton Downing , American cyclist (d. 1929)
1889 – Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (d. 1962)
1897 – Dirk Stikker , Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979)
1900 – Adlai Stevenson II , American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965)
1903 – Sakari Momoi , Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
1903 – Joan Whitney Payson , American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)
1906 – John Carradine , American actor and singer (d. 1988)
1907 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1908 – Marie Baron , Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948)
1908 – Bob Dunn , American trombonist and guitarist (d. 1971)
1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton , English conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)
1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond , French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007)
1910 – Francisco Varallo , Argentinian footballer (d. 2010)
1911 – Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
1914 – William S. Burroughs , American author and painter (d. 1997)
1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1917 – Isuzu Yamada , Japanese actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Red Buttons , American actor and singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Kenneth Hare , Canadian climatologist and academic (d. 2002)
1919 – Tim Holt , American actor and singer (d. 1973)
1919 – Andreas Papandreou , Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
1920 – Frank Muir , English actor and playwright (d. 1998)
1921 – Ken Adam , German-English production designer and art director
1921 – John Pritchard , English conductor and director (d. 1989)
1922 – Alain de Changy , Belgian race car driver (d. 1994)
1923 – Fatmawati , Indonesian wife of Sukarno , 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
1923 – Claude King , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Indian cardinal (d. 2014)
1926 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , American publisher (d. 2012)
1927 – Robert Allen , American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten , Dutch captain and pilot (d. 1977)
1928 – Tage Danielsson , Swedish author, actor, and director (d. 1985)
1928 – Andrew Greeley , American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013)
1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis , Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997)
1929 – Luc Ferrari , French composer (d. 2005)
1929 – Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician, 23rd Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
1930 – Rostislav Yankovsky , Ukrainian-Russian actor
1932 – Cesare Maldini , Italian footballer and manager
1933 – Jörn Donner , Finnish director and screenwriter
1933 – Norm Grabowski , American actor and hot rod builder (d. 2012)
1933 – B.S. Johnson , English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973)
1934 – Hank Aaron . American baseball player
1934 – Don Cherry , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1935 – Alex Harvey , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed , Indian poet and academic
1936 – Norma Thrower , Australian hurdler
1937 – Stuart Damon , American actor and singer
1937 – Larry Hillman , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1937 – Gaston Roelants , Belgian runner
1937 – Alar Toomre , Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician
1937 – Wang Xuan , Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia , Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat
1940 – H. R. Giger , Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (d. 2014)
1940 – Luke Graham , American wrestler (d. 2006)
1940 – Dick Warlock , Canadian actor and stuntman
1941 – Jaap Blokker , Dutch businessman (d. 2011)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell . American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1941 – David Selby , American actor and playwright
1941 – Vadim Gulyaev , Russian water polo player (d. 1998)
1941 – Kaspar Villiger , Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation
1942 – Roger Staubach , American football player and sportscaster
1942 – Susan Hill , English author
1942 – Cory Wells , American singer (Three Dog Night )
1943 – Nolan Bushnell , American businessman, founded Atari, Inc.
1943 – Michael Mann , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Henfil , Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
1944 – J. R. Cobb , American guitarist (Classics IV and Atlanta Rhythm Section )
1944 – Al Kooper , American singer-songwriter and producer (Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears )
1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971)
1946 – Amnon Dankner , Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013)
1946 – Mauro Pagani , Italian singer-songwriter and violinist (Premiata Forneria Marconi )
1946 – Charlotte Rampling , English actress
1947 – Regina Duarte , Brazilian actress
1947 – Clemente Mastella , Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice
1947 – Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver and sportscaster
1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish footballer and manager
1948 – Dennis Ferguson , Australian sex offender (d. 2012)
1948 – Christopher Guest , American actor and director
1948 – Barbara Hershey , American actress
1948 – Errol Morris , American director and producer
1948 – Tom Wilkinson , English actor and singer
1949 – Kurt Beck , German politician
1949 – Yvon Vallières , Canadian educator and politician
1950 – Catherine Castel , French actress and makeup artist
1950 – Marie-Pierre Castel , French actress
1950 – Jonathan Freeman , American actor, singer, voice artist, and comedian
1950 – Rafael Puente , Mexican footballer, manager and sportscaster
1951 – Russell Grant , English astrologer and author
1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin , Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia
1951 – Robin Sachs , English-American actor (d. 2013)
1951 – Elizabeth Swados , American composer and director
1952 – Daniel Balavoine , French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin , Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic
1953 – Freddie Aguilar , Filipino folk musician
1953 – John Beilein , American basketball player and coach
1953 – Gustavo Benítez , Paraguayan footballer and manager
1953 – Giannina Braschi , Puerto Rican author and playwright
1953 – Takashi Ishikawa , Japanese wrestler
1953 – Loretta Tofani , American journalist
1954 – Cliff Martinez , American drummer and songwriter
1954 – Frank Walker , Australian journalist and author
1955 – Mike Heath , American baseball player and manager
1955 – Kenji Ohba , Japanese actor
1956 – Betty Ong , American flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1956 – Héctor Rebaque , Mexican race car driver
1956 – David Wiesner , American author and illustrator
1957 – Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician
1957 – Nick Laird-Clowes , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dream Academy and Pink Floyd )
1959 – Sudip Chatterjee , Indian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1959 – Jennifer Granholm Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan
1959 – Armando Husillos , Argentinian footballer and manager
1960 – Aris Christofellis , Greek soprano and musicologist
1960 – Bonnie Crombie , Canadian politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga
1961 – Savvas Kofidis , Greek footballer and manager
1961 – Tim Meadows , American actor and screenwriter
1961 – Hakan Peker , Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer
1962 – Jacqui Dankworth , English singer and actress
1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Martin Nievera , Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor
1963 – Steven Shainberg , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Laura Linney , American actress, singer, and producer
1964 – Duff McKagan , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Guns N' Roses , Velvet Revolver , Loaded , and Neurotic Outsiders )
1964 – Helena Bergström , Swedish actress, director, and screenwriter
1964 – Piotr Trzaskalski , Polish director and screenwriter
1964 – Alexia Vassiliou , Cypriot singer-songwriter
1965 – Tarik Benhabiles , Algerian-French tennis player and coach
1965 – Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer and manager
1965 – Keith Moseley , American bass player and songwriter (The String Cheese Incident )
1966 – Nicklas Kroon , Swedish tennis player
1966 – Jonathan Morgan , American porn actor and director
1966 – Dean Nalder , Australian footballer and politician
1966 – José María Olazábal , Spanish golfer
1966 – Rok Petrovič , Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
1967 – Chris Parnell , American actor
1968 – Roberto Alomar , Puerto Rican baseball player and coach
1968 – David R. Flores , Mexican-American jockey
1968 – Marcus Grönholm , Finnish race car driver
1968 – Eyþór Guðjónsson , Icelandic actor and producer
1969 – Bobby Brown , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (New Edition )
1969 – Michael Sheen , Welsh actor and director
1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin , Belgian basketball player and coach
1971 – Michel Breistroff , French ice hockey player (d. 1996)
1971 – Sara Evans , American singer-songwriter
1972 – Kristopher Carter , American composer
1972 – Koriki Chōshū , Japanese comedian
1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
1973 – Richard Matvichuk , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis , Dutch singer-songwriter
1974 – Juha Tapio , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Jenny Alversjö , Swedish television presenter
1975 – Brainpower , Belgian-Dutch rapper
1975 – Adam Carson , American drummer (AFI and Tiger Army )
1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst , Dutch footballer and manager
1976 – John Aloisi , Australian footballer and manager
1976 – Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor, singer, and producer
1976 – Nancy Feber , Belgian tennis player
1976 – Tony Jaa , Thai actor and martial artist
1977 – Ben Ainslie , English sailor
1977 – Yuko Aoki , Japanese singer and model
1977 – Simone Cristicchi , Italian singer-songwriter
1977 – Adam Everett , American baseball player and coach
1977 – Valery Kobzarenko , Ukrainian cyclist
1977 – Ahmad Merritt , American football player
1977 – Andrejs Prohorenkovs , Latvian footballer and manager
1977 – Elin Topuzakov , Bulgarian footballer and manager
1978 – Mohamed Ousserir , Algerian footballer
1978 – Samuel Sánchez , Spanish cyclist
1979 – Alexander Ryabov , Russian ice hockey player
1979 – Ilaria Salvatori , Italian fencer
1980 – Stefano Di Fiordo , Italian footballer
1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick , American programmer, created LiveJournal
1980 – Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
1980 – Paul Kirui , Kenyan runner
1980 – Tiwa Savage , Nigerian singer-songwriter and actress
1981 – Zied Bhairi , Tunisian footballer
1981 – Sara Foster , American actress
1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve , French director and screenwriter
1981 – Jason Kawau , New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Wesam Rizik , Qatari footballer
1981 – Jason Shoemark , New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Loukas Vyntra , Czech-Greek footballer
1981 – Nora Zehetner , American actress
1981 – Julie Zenatti , French singer and actress
1982 – Wheesung , South Korean singer-songwriter and producer
1982 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami , Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 – Deidra Dionne , Canadian skier
1982 – Marc Kennedy , Canadian curler
1982 – Yū Kobayashi , Japanese voice actress
1982 – Tomáš Kopecký , Slovak ice hockey player
1982 – Dionysis Makris , Greek singer
1982 – Rodrigo Palacio , Argentinian footballer
1982 – Pablo Palacios , Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – Jenn Suhr , American pole vaulter
1983 – Sanna Askelöf , Swedish martial artist
1984 – Carlos Tevez , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Paul Duffield , Australian footballer
1985 – Constantinos Georgiades , Cypriot footballer
1985 – Rudy Haddad , French-Tunisian footballer
1985 – Lloyd Johansson , Australian rugby player
1985 – Julia Kova , Russian model and singer, Miss Universe Russia 2003
1985 – Robert Lijesen , Dutch swimmer
1985 – Laurence Maroney , American football player
1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
1985 – Tatiana Silva , Belgian model, Miss Belgium 2005
1986 – Vedran Ćorluka , Croatian footballer
1986 – Manuel Fernandes , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Gerardo Flores , Mexican footballer
1986 – Sekope Kepu , Australian-New Zealand rugby player
1986 – Roger Kluge , German cyclist
1986 – Janne Korpi , Finnish snowboarder and harness racer
1986 – Kim Min-woo , South Korean ice dancer
1986 – Madison Rayne , American wrestler
1986 – Takayuki Seto , Japanese footballer
1986 – Billy Sharp , English footballer
1986 – Reed Sorenson , American race car driver
1986 – Jānis Strenga , Latvian bobsledder
1986 – Carlos Villanueva , Chilean footballer
1987 – Vernus Abbott , Saint Lucian footballer
1987 – Darren Criss , American actor and singer
1987 – Curtis Jerrells , American basketball player
1987 – Alex Kuznetsov , Ukrainian-American tennis player
1987 – Linus Omark , Swedish ice hockey player
1987 – Donald Sanford , American-Israeli sprinter
1988 – Natalie Geisenberger , German luger
1988 – Štěpán Kodeda , Czech orienteering competitor (d. 2015)
1988 – Philipp Marschall , German skier
1988 – Karin Ontiveros , Mexican model and sportscaster
1989 – Edoardo Giorgetti , Italian swimmer
1989 – Dmytro Khovbosha , Ukrainian footballer
1989 – Marina Melnikova , Russian tennis player
1989 – Otele Mouangue , Cameroonian footballer
1989 – Renée Slegers , Dutch footballer
1989 – Jeremy Sumpter , American actor
1990 – Dmitry Andreikin , Russian chess player
1990 – Lars Krogh Gerson , Luxembourgian-Norwegian footballer
1990 – Kim Ji-soo , South Korean singer-songwriter
1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar , Indian cricketer
1990 – Jordan Rhodes , Scottish footballer
1991 – Nabil Bahoui , Swedish footballer
1991 – Alba Riquelme , Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2011
1992 – Nabilla Benattia , French model
1992 – Stefan de Vrij , Dutch footballer
1992 – Neymar , Brazilian footballer
1993 – Aleksandr Ilyin , Russian footballer
1994 – Arisa Komiya , Japanese actress and model
1994 – Saki Nakajima , Japanese singer (Cute , Guardians 4 , and Petitmoni )
1995 – Adnan Januzaj , Belgian-Albanian footballer
1995 – Batuhan Karacakaya , Turkish actor
1997 – Patrick Roberts , English footballer
2001 – Juan Karlos Labajo , Filipino-German singer and actor
Deaths
523 – Avitus of Vienne , Latin archbishop and saint (b. 470)
806 – Kanmu , Japanese emperor (b. 737)
1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni , Italian painter (b. 1520)
1705 – Philipp Spener , German theologian and author (b. 1635)
1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau , French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
1754 – Nicolaas Kruik , Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678)
1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 – Eusebius Amort , German theologian and academic (b. 1692)
1790 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 – Pasquale Paoli , Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725)
1881 – Thomas Carlyle , Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795)
1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra , Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841)
1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish author (b. 1807)
1915 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
1922 – Christiaan de Wet , South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian engineer, invented the Mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
1927 – Inayat Khan , Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias , Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
1933 – Joseph Roffo , French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1879)
1933 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)
1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)
1938 – Hans Litten , German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
1941 – Banjo Paterson , Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)
1941 – Otto Strandman , Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875)
1946 – George Arliss , English actor and playwright (b. 1868)
1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (b. 1883)
1952 – Adela Verne , English pianist and composer (b. 1877)
1955 – Victor Houteff , Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad , Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890)
1962 – Jacques Ibert , French-Swiss composer (b. 1890)
1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean , American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872)
1967 – Violeta Parra , Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
1969 – Thelma Ritter , American actress and singer (b. 1902)
1972 – Marianne Moore , American poet and author (b. 1887)
1976 – Rudy Pompilli , American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets ) (b. 1926)
1977 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
1981 – Ella T. Grasso , American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1982 – Neil Aggett , Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff , American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
1984 – Santo , Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1917)
1985 – Georges-Émile Lapalme , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
1987 – William Collier, Jr. , American actor and producer (b. 1902)
1989 – Emrys James , Welsh actor (b. 1928)
1991 – Dean Jagger , American actor (b. 1903)
1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian , Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
1993 – Seán Flanagan , Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
1993 – Marcel Léger , Canadian politician (b. 1930)
1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
1995 – Doug McClure , American actor and singer (b. 1935)
1997 – René Huyghe , French historian and author (b. 1906)
1998 – Cecil FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (b. 1919)
1999 – Wassily Leontief , Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2000 – Claude Autant-Lara , French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
2004 – John Hench , American animator (b. 1908)
2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma , Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2005 – Henri Rochon , Canadian tennis player (b. 1912)
2005 – Michalina Wisłocka , Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)
2006 – Franklin Cover , American actor (b. 1928)
2007 – Leo T. McCarthy , New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
2007 – Alfred Worm , Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)
2010 – Brendan Burke , Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988)
2010 – Ian Carmichael , English actor and singer (b. 1920)
2010 – Harry Schwarz , South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924)
2011 – Brian Jacques , English author and radio host (b. 1939)
2011 – Peggy Rea , American actress (b. 1921)
2012 – Sam Coppola , American actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Jiang Ying , Chinese opera singer (b. 1919)
2012 – Jo Zwaan , Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)
2013 – Stuart Freeborn , English make up artist (b. 1914)
2013 – Reinaldo Gargano , Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934)
2013 – Egil Hovland , Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
2013 – Tom McGuigan , New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (b. 1921)
2013 – Paul Tanner , American trombonist (Glenn Miller Orchestra ) (b. 1917)
2014 – Robert A. Dahl , American political scientist and academic (b. 1915)
2015 – K. N. Choksy , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
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