December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 17 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake .
835 – Sweet Dew Incident : Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
1287 – St. Lucia's flood : The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots .
1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first military academy in the world.
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers ' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1814 – War of 1812 : The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne , Louisiana .
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state .
1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 – Quantum mechanics : Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law .
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu .
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina .
1907 – The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 , formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory .
1911 – Roald Amundsen 's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland , Helmer Hanssen , Sverre Hassel , and Oscar Wisting , becomes the first to reach the South Pole .
1913 – Haruna , the fourth and last Kongō -class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II .
1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista , PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen , a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne .
1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1939 – Winter War : The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
1941 – World War II : Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand .
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York .
1947 – Santiago Bernabéu Stadium , home of Real Madrid C.F. , staged its first football match.
1955 – Albania , Austria, Bulgaria , Cambodia , Ceylon , Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan , Laos , Libya , Nepal , Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations .
1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility .
1961 – Tanganyika joins the United Nations .
1962 – NASA 's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus .
1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California .
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement : Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War : Over 200 of East Pakistan 's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day .)
1972 – Apollo program : Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict : Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law , extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights .
1983 – The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki , Greece.
1992 – War in Abkhazia : Siege of Tkvarcheli – A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars : The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Croatia , and Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela , resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2004 – The Millau Viaduct , the tallest bridge in the world , is formally inaugurated near Millau , France.
2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting : Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut .
2013 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
Births
1009 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)
1332 – Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1381)
1546 – Tycho Brahe , Danish astronomer and chemist (d. 1601)
1607 – János Kemény , Hungarian prince (d. 1662)
1625 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot , French orientalist and academic (d. 1695)
1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway , English philosopher and author (d. 1679)
1640 – Aphra Behn , English playwright and author (d. 1689)
1678 – Daniel Neal , English historian and author (d. 1743)
1720 – Justus Möser , German jurist and theorist (d. 1794)
1730 – Capel Bond , English organist and composer (d. 1790)
1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh , Czech composer and educator (d. 1814)
1775 – Philander Chase , American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , Scottish admiral and adventurer (d. 1860)
1777 – Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon (d. 1839)
1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1806)
1787 – Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este (d. 1816)
1791 – Charles Wolfe , Irish priest and poet (d. 1823)
1794 – Erastus Corning , American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1816 – Abraham Hochmuth , Hungarian rabbi (d. 1889)
1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter and illustrator (d. 1898)
1852 – Daniel De Leon , Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (d. 1914)
1853 – Errico Malatesta , Italian activist (d. 1932)
1866 – Roger Fry , English painter and critic (d. 1934)
1870 – Karl Renner , Austrian politician, 4th President of Austria (d. 1950)
1880 – Hjalmar Mellander , Swedish pentathlete (d. 1919)
1881 – Katherine MacDonald , American actress and producer (d. 1956)
1881 – Howard Valentine , American runner (d. 1932)
1883 – Manolis Kalomiris , Greek pianist and composer (d. 1962)
1883 – Morihei Ueshiba , Japanese martial artist, developed aikido (d. 1969)
1884 – Jane Cowl , American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1887 – Xul Solar , Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
1894 – Alexander Nelke , Estonian-American painter and carpenter (d. 1974)
1895 – George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1895 – Paul Éluard , French poet and author (d. 1952)
1896 – Jimmy Doolittle , American pilot and general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg , Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
1897 – Margaret Chase Smith , American educator and politician (d. 1995)
1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
1902 – Frances Bavier , American actress and singer (d. 1989)
1903 – Walter Rangeley , English sprinter (d. 1982)
1908 – Morey Amsterdam , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1908 – Claude Davey , Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
1908 – Mária Szepes , Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1911 – Spike Jones , American singer, actor, and bandleader (d. 1965)
1911 – Hans von Ohain , German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1998)
1911 – Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz , Greek-Polish athlete and resistance member (d. 1943)
1913 – Dan Dailey , American actor, singer, dancer, and director (d. 1978)
1914 – Karl Carstens , German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1992)
1914 – Attila Petschauer , Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)
1914 – Nam Phương , Vietnamese wife of Bảo Đại (d. 1963)
1914 – Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist and harpsichord player (d. 2003)
1915 – Rashid Behbudov , Georgian-Azerbaijani singer and actor (d. 1989)
1916 – Shirley Jackson , American author (d. 1965)
1917 – C.-H. Hermansson , Swedish author and politician
1917 – Elyse Knox , American actress and fashion designer (d. 2012)
1917 – June Taylor , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1918 – James T. Aubrey , American broadcaster (d. 1994)
1918 – Radu Beligan , Romanian actor
1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar , Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)
1920 – Clark Terry , American trumpet player, composer, and educator (d. 2015)
1922 – Nikolay Basov , Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
1922 – Don Hewitt , American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
1922 – Junior J. Spurrier , American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1984)
1922 – Antonio Larreta , Uruguayan theatre actor, critic and writer (d. 2015 )
1923 – Gerard Reve , Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006)
1924 – Raj Kapoor , Pakistani-Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)
1925 – Sam Jones , American baseball player (d. 1971)
1927 – Richard Cassilly , American tenor and actor (d. 1998)
1927 – Koos Rietkerk , Dutch politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1986)
1930 – David R. Harris , English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist (d. 2013)
1931 – Jon Elia , Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (d. 2002)
1931 – Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgussaar , Estonian director and politician (d. 2015)
1932 – Abbe Lane , American actress, singer, and dancer
1932 – Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1934 – Shyam Benegal , Indian director and screenwriter
1935 – Lewis Arquette , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1935 – Barbara Leigh-Hunt , English actress
1935 – Lee Remick , American actress and singer (d. 1991)
1935 – Arvo Valton , Estonian author and screenwriter
1938 – Leonardo Boff , Brazilian theologian and author
1938 – Hal Williams , American actor
1939 – Ann Cryer , English academic and politician
1939 – Ernie Davis , American football player (d. 1963)
1940 – Lex Gold , Scottish footballer
1941 – Karan Armstrong , American soprano and actress
1941 – Ellen Willis , American journalist, critic, and academic (d. 2006)
1942 – Chris Harris , English actor and director (d. 2014)
1942 – Dick Wagner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Frost ) (d. 2014)
1943 – Tommy McAvoy , Scottish politician
1943 – Emmett Tyrrell , American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
1944 – Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham , English businessman, founded DFS
1946 – Antony Beevor , English historian and author
1946 – Jane Birkin , English-French actress and singer
1946 – Oral Çalışlar , Turkish journalist and author
1946 – John Du Prez , English musician, conductor, and composer
1946 – Patty Duke , American actress
1946 – Ruth Fuchs , German javelin thrower and politician
1946 – Michael Ovitz , American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency
1946 – Stan Smith , American tennis player and coach
1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson , American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn and Former Ladies of the Supremes )
1947 – Tom Mardirosian , American actor
1947 – Christopher Parkening , American guitarist and educator
1947 – Dilma Rousseff , Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil
1947 – Linda Sutton , English painter
1948 – Kim Beazley , Australian politician and diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
1948 – Boudewijn Büch , Dutch author, poet, and television host (d. 2002)
1948 – Peeter Kreitzberg , Estonian politician (d. 2011)
1948 – Peter Thorup , Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Beefeaters and Collective Consciousness Society ) (d. 2007)
1948 – Dee Wallace , American actress
1949 – Bill Buckner , American baseball player and manager
1949 – Cliff Williams , English bass player and singer (AC/DC , Home and Bandit )
1951 – Jan Timman , Dutch chess player
1951 – Celia Weston , American actress
1951 – Paul Zaloom , American actor and puppeteer
1952 – Graciela Alfano Argentinian model and actress
1952 – Tommy Boyd , English radio and television host
1952 – Germain Houde , Canadian actor
1952 – John Lurie , American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer (The Lounge Lizards )
1953 – Vijay Amritraj , Indian tennis player and sportscaster
1953 – Wade Davis , Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer
1953 – René Eespere , Estonian composer
1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence
1953 – Mikael Odenberg , Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence
1954 – James Horan , American actor
1954 – Alan Kulwicki , American race car driver (d. 1993)
1954 – Steve MacLean , Canadian physicist and astronaut
1956 – Linda Fabiani , Scottish politician
1956 – Hanni Wenzel , German skier
1958 – Mike Scott , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Waterboys )
1958 – Spider Stacy , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Pogues )
1959 – Bob Paris , American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor
1959 – Jorge Vaca , Mexican boxer
1960 – Don Franklin , American actor
1960 – Chris Waddle , English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
1960 – Diane Williams , American sprinter
1961 – Jeff Robinson , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1961 – Patrik Sundström , Swedish ice hockey player
1962 – Ginger Lynn , American model and actress
1963 – Greg Abbott , English footballer and manager
1963 – Diana Gansky , German discus thrower
1963 – Cynthia Gibb , American actress and singer
1963 – Vytautas Juozapaitis , Lithuanian actor and singer
1963 – Michael Moloney , American interior designer
1963 – Mario Yamasaki , Brazilian-American martial artist and referee
1964 – Rebecca Gibney , New Zealand-Australian actress and producer
1965 – Sulaiman Abu Ghaith , Kuwaiti terrorist
1965 – Aljoša Asanović , Croatian footballer and manager
1965 – Craig Biggio , American baseball player and coach
1965 – Ken Hill , American baseball player
1965 – Ted Raimi , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi , Italian race car driver
1966 – Anthony Mason , American basketball player (d. 2015)
1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt , Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmark
1966 – Bill Ranford , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Tim Sköld , Swedish bass player and producer (Shotgun Messiah , Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult , MDFMK , KMFDM , and ohGr )
1967 – Ewa Białołęcka , Polish author
1967 – Hanne Haugland , Norwegian high jumper and coach
1968 – Kelley Armstrong , Canadian author
1968 – Noelle Beck , American actress
1969 – Scott Hatteberg , American baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Archie Kao , American actor
1969 – Arthur Numan , Dutch footballer and manager
1970 – Nadine Garner , Australian actress
1970 – Anna Maria Jopek , Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1970 – Beth Orton , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Brian Gay , American golfer
1971 – Tia Texada , American actress and singer
1971 – Michaela Watkins , American actress and screenwriter
1971 – Natascha McElhone , English actress
1972 – Miranda Hart , English actress, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Marcus Jensen , American baseball player and coach
1973 – Falk Balzer , German hurdler
1973 – Pat Burke , Irish basketball player
1973 – Boris Henry , German javelin thrower
1973 – Tomasz Radzinski , Polish footballer
1973 – Saulius Štombergas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1973 – Thuy Trang , Vietnamese-American actress (d. 2001)
1974 – Billy Koch , American baseball player
1975 – Justin Furstenfeld , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blue October and The Last Wish )
1975 – KaDee Strickland , American actress
1976 – Tammy Blanchard , American actress
1976 – Leland Chapman , American bounty hunter
1976 – Sebastien Chaule , French-German rugby player
1976 – André Couto , Portuguese race car driver
1976 – Santiago Ezquerro , Spanish footballer
1977 – Brain Damage , American wrestler (d. 2012)
1977 – Jamie Peacock , English rugby player
1978 – Dean Brogan , Australian footballer
1978 – Shedrack Kibet Korir , Kenyan runner
1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch , Czech footballer
1978 – Patty Schnyder , Swiss tennis player
1978 – Radu Sîrbu , Moldovan-Romanian singer and producer (O-Zone )
1978 – Kim St-Pierre , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong , French footballer
1979 – Andrei Makrov , Estonian ice hockey player
1979 – Sophie Monk , English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Bardot )
1979 – Michael Owen , English footballer and sportscaster
1980 – Gordon Greer , Scottish footballer
1980 – Tata Young , Thai singer, dancer, and actress
1980 – Didier Zokora , Ivorian footballer
1981 – Amber Chia , Malaysian model and actress
1981 – Émilie Heymans , Canadian diver
1981 – Rebecca Jarvis , American journalist
1981 – Johnny Jeter , American wrestler
1981 – Liam Lawrence , Irish footballer
1981 – Shaun Marcum , American baseball player
1982 – Josh Fields , American baseball player
1982 – Steve Sidwell , English footballer
1982 – Anthony Way , English singer and actor
1983 – Leanne Mitchell , English singer-songwriter
1984 – Chris Brunt , Irish footballer
1984 – Rana Daggubati , Indian actor and producer
1984 – Ed Rainsford , Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 – Jackson Rathbone , Singaporean-American actor and singer (100 Monkeys )
1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish footballer
1985 – Paul Rabil , American lacrosse player
1985 – Tom Smith , English-Welsh rugby player
1985 – Nonami Takizawa , Japanese actress and singer
1986 – Jang Jae-ho , South Korean gamer
1987 – Kenneth Medwood , Belizean-American hurdler
1987 – Aletta Ocean , Hungarian porn actress
1988 – Nicolas Batum , French basketball player
1988 – Nate Ebner , American football player
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens , American actress and singer
1988 – Hayato Sakamoto , Japanese baseball player
1989 – Onew , South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Shinee )
1989 – Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho , Brazilian footballer
1991 – Samantha Peszek , American gymnast
1991 – Mitsuki Takahata , Japanese actress and singer
1991 – Bryan Van Den Bogaert , Belgian footballer
1992 – Tori Kelly , American singer-songwriter
1992 – Alexandra Kolesnichenko , Uzbekistani tennis player
1992 – Ryo Miyaichi , Japanese footballer
1994 – Joshua Dionisio , Filipino actor
Deaths
1460 – Guarino da Verona , Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370)
1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 – James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
1553 – Hanibal Lucić , Croatian poet and playwright (b. 1485)
1591 – John of the Cross , Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)
1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)
1651 – Pierre Dupuy , French historian and scholar (b. 1582)
1715 – Thomas Tenison , English archbishop (b. 1636)
1735 – Thomas Tanner , English bishop (b. 1674)
1741 – Charles Rollin , French historian and educator (b. 1661)
1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German pianist and composer (b. 1714)
1788 – Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
1799 – George Washington , American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
1831 – Martin Baum , American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765)
1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier , Canadian physician (b. 1806)
1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer , Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
1873 – Louis Agassiz , Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
1902 – Julia Grant , American wife of Ulysses S. Grant , 19th First Lady of the United States (b. 1826)
1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
1917 – Phil Waller , Welsh international rugby player (b. 1889)
1920 – George Gipp , American football player (b. 1895)
1927 – Julian Sochocki , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842)
1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum , American author (b. 1902)
1937 – Fabián de la Rosa , Filipino painter (b. 1869)
1940 – Anton Korošec , Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
1943 – John Harvey Kellogg , American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)
1947 – Stanley Baldwin , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1947 – Edward Higgins , English-American 3rd General of the Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American author and academic (b. 1896)
1954 – Emil Rausch , German swimmer (b. 1883)
1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
1963 – Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
1964 – William Bendix , American actor and singer (b. 1906)
1966 – Shailendra , Pakistani-Indian songwriter (b. 1923)
1970 – Franz Schlegelberger , German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
1971 – Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury , Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
1971 – Munier Choudhury , Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser , Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)
1971 – Selina Parvin , Bangladeshi journalist and poet (b. 1931)
1971 – Dick Tiger , Nigerian boxer (b. 1929)
1974 – Walter Lippmann , American journalist and author (b. 1889)
1975 – Arthur Treacher , English-American actor and singer (b. 1894)
1978 – Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)
1980 – Elston Howard , American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
1984 – Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1985 – Catherine Doherty , Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
1985 – Roger Maris , American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)
1989 – Ants Eskola , Estonian actor and singer (b. 1908)
1989 – Jock Mahoney , American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
1989 – Andrei Sakharov , Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
1991 – Robert Eddison , Japanese-English actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Jeff Alm , American football player (b. 1968)
1993 – Myrna Loy , American actress and singer (b. 1905)
1994 – Orval Faubus , American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1995 – G. C. Edmondson , American soldier and author (b. 1922)
1996 – Gaston Miron , Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)
1997 – Stubby Kaye , American actor and singer (b. 1918)
1997 – Emily Cheney Neville , American author (b. 1919)
1997 – Kurt Winter , Canadian guitarist and songwriter (The Guess Who ) (b. 1946)
1998 – Norman Fell , American actor (b. 1924)
1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. , American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928)
1998 – Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
1999 – Gré Brouwenstijn , Dutch soprano (b. 1915)
2000 – Uldis Pūcītis , Latvian actor and director (b. 1937)
2001 – W. G. Sebald , German academic and author (b. 1944)
2003 – Jeanne Crain , American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Blas Ople , Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2003 – Frank Sheeran , American union leader and mobster (b. 1920)
2004 – Rod Kanehl , American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr. , Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1939)
2005 – Trevanian , American author and scholar (b. 1931)
2006 – Anton Balasingham , Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
2006 – Ahmet Ertegün , Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 – Mike Evans , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2009 – Alan A'Court , English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
2010 – Timothy Davlin , American politician, Mayor of Springfield (b. 1957)
2010 – Neva Patterson , American actress (b. 1920)
2010 – Dale Roberts , English footballer (b. 1986)
2011 – Joe Simon , American author and illustrator (b. 1913)
2011 – Billie Jo Spears , American singer (b. 1937)
2012 – John Graham , English general (b. 1923)
2012 – Klaus Köste , German gymnast (b. 1943)
2012 – Edward Jones , American police officer and politician (b. 1950)
2012 – Kenneth Kendall , Indian-English journalist and game show host (b. 1924)
2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto , American educator (b. 1985)
2013 – Janet Dailey , American author (b. 1944)
2013 – C. N. Karunakaran , Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)
2013 – Dennis Lindley , English statistician and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Peter O'Toole , Irish-English actor, singer, and producer (b. 1932)
2013 – George Rodrigue , American painter (b. 1944)
2014 – Angalifu , American rhinoceros (b. 1970)
2014 – Theo Colborn , American zoologist and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Irene Dalis , American soprano and pianist (b. 1925)
2014 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo , Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1947)
2014 – Bess Myerson , American model and actress, Miss America 1945 (b. 1924)
2014 – Fred Thurston , American football player (b. 1933)
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