February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 315 days remaining until the end of the year (316 in leap years ).
Events
197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum , the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire .
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagiellon of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil .
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster , ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War . A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert .
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands , and claims them in the name of King George III .
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party .
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles , a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1861 – Serfdom is abolished in Russia.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph .
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States , one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1915 – World War I : The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli .
1937 – Yekatit 12 : During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia , two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II : Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066 , allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps .
1943 – World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima : About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima .
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta .
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University .
1953 – Censorship : Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7 , its first sounding rocket .
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan 's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam , and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh , along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh .
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976 – Executive Order 9066 , which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford 's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1985 – EastEnders , BBC 's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre : the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka .
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial .
2002 – NASA 's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman , Iran , killing 275.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita , Mexico, kills 65 miners .
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck , containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore .
2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León , Mexico .
Births
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus , Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1526 – Carolus Clusius , Flemish botanist and academic (d. 1609)
1552 – Melchior Klesl , Austrian cardinal (d. 1630)
1630 – Chhatrapati Shivaji , founder of the Maratha Empire (d. 1680)
1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann , German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1717 – David Garrick , English actor, playwright, and producer (d. 1779)
1743 – Luigi Boccherini , Italian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
1798 – Allan MacNab , Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, Premier of Canada West (d. 1862)
1800 – Émilie Gamelin , Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence (d. 1851)
1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff , Swiss politician (d. 1881)
1804 – Carl von Rokitansky , German physician, pathologist, and philosopher (d. 1878)
1804 – David Wark , Irish-Canadian merchant and politician (d. 1905)
1821 – August Schleicher , German linguist and academic (d. 1868)
1824 – Henri Germain , French banker and politician, founded Crédit Lyonnais (d. 1905)
1833 – Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1843 – Adelina Patti , Spanish-Welsh soprano (d. 1919)
1855 – Nishinoumi Kajirō I , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (d. 1908)
1859 – Svante Arrhenius , Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
1865 – Sven Hedin , Swedish geographer and explorer (d. 1952)
1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan , Armenian-Russian poet and author (d. 1923)
1871 – Lugenia Burns Hope , American activist (d. 1947)
1872 – Johan Pitka , Estonian admiral (d. 1944)
1876 – Constantin Brâncuși , Romanian-French sculptor and photographer (d. 1957)
1877 – Gabriele Münter , German painter (d. 1962)
1878 – Harriet Bosse , Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
1880 – Álvaro Obregón , Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (d. 1928)
1886 – José Abad Santos , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 1942)
1888 – José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian lawyer and poet (d. 1928)
1888 – Aurora Quezon , Filipino wife of Manuel L. Quezon , 2nd First Lady of the Philippines (d. 1949)
1893 – Cedric Hardwicke , English-American actor and director (d. 1964)
1895 – Louis Calhern , American actor and singer (d. 1956)
1895 – Diego Mazquiarán , Spanish bullfighter (d. 1940)
1896 – André Breton , French poet and author (d. 1966)
1897 – Alma Rubens , American actress (d. 1931)
1899 – Lucio Fontana , Italian-Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
1899 – Yury Olesha , Russian author and playwright (d. 1960)
1901 – Florence Green , English soldier (d. 2012)
1902 – Kay Boyle , American author and educator (d. 1992)
1903 – Louis Slobodkin , American author and illustrator (d. 1975)
1904 – Havank , Dutch journalist and author (d. 1964)
1906 – Eugene Eisenmann , Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (d. 1981)
1910 – Dorothy Janis , American actress (d. 2010)
1911 – Merle Oberon , Indian-American actress (d. 1979)
1912 – Saul Chaplin , American composer and director (d. 1997)
1913 – Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (d. 2007)
1914 – Jacques Dufilho , French actor (d. 2005)
1915 – John Freeman , English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2014)
1916 – Eddie Arcaro , American jockey and sportscaster (d. 1997)
1917 – Carson McCullers , American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet (d. 1967)
1920 – C. Z. Guest , American actress, fashion designer, and author (d. 2003)
1920 – Jaan Kross , Estonian author and poet (d. 2007)
1920 – George Rose , English actor and singer (d. 1988)
1922 – Władysław Bartoszewski , Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
1924 – David Bronstein , Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1924 – Lee Marvin , American actor and singer (d. 1987)
1924 – Bruce Norris , American businessman (d. 1986)
1926 – György Kurtág , Hungarian composer and academic
1926 – Ross Thomas , American soldier author (d. 1995)
1927 – Philippe Boiry , French journalist (d. 2014)
1929 – Jacques Deray , French director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1930 – John Frankenheimer , American director and producer (d. 2002)
1930 – Kasinathuni Viswanath , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter
1932 – Joseph P. Kerwin , American captain, physician, and astronaut
1934 – Pierre Barouh , French singer-songwriter and actor
1934 – Carole Eastman , American actress and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1935 – Dave Niehaus , American sportscaster (d. 2010)
1936 – Sam Myers , American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1937 – Terry Carr , American author and educator (d. 1987)
1937 – David Margulies , American actor
1937 – Alan Munro , Indian-English immunologist and academic
1937 – Boris Pugo , Latvian politician, Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
1937 – Robert Walker , American guitarist
1938 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (d. 1989)
1938 – Dutch Mason , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
1938 – René Muñoz , Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1939 – Erin Pizzey , Chinese-English activist and author, founded Refuge
1939 – Gwen Taylor , English actress
1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov , Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
1940 – Smokey Robinson , American singer-songwriter and producer (The Miracles )
1940 – Bobby Rogers , American singer-songwriter (The Miracles ) (d. 2013)
1941 – David Gross , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge , English politician
1942 – Paul Krause , American football player
1942 – Howard Stringer , Welsh-American businessman
1942 – Will Provine , American biologist, historian, and academic (d. 2015)
1943 – Lou Christie , American singer-songwriter
1943 – Homer Hickam , American author and engineer
1943 – Tim Hunt , English biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate
1944 – Les Hinton , English-American journalist and businessman
1945 – Yuri Antonov , Uzbek-Russian singer-songwriter
1945 – Michael Nader , American actor
1946 – Paul Dean , Canadian guitarist (Loverboy and Streetheart )
1946 – Barry Everitt , English neuroscientist and academic
1946 – Hiroshi Fujioka , Japanese actor
1946 – Peter Hudson , Australian footballer and coach
1946 – Karen Silkwood , American technician and activist (d. 1974)
1947 – Tim Shadbolt , New Zealand politician, 42nd Mayor of Invercargill
1947 – Jackie Curtis , American actress and writer (d. 1985)
1948 – Mark Andes , American singer-songwriter and bass player (Spirit , Firefall , Jo Jo Gunne , and Heart )
1948 – Pim Fortuyn , Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (d. 2002)
1948 – Tony Iommi , English guitarist and songwriter (Black Sabbath , Heaven & Hell , Velvett Fogg , and Mythology )
1948 – Big John Studd , American wrestler and actor (d. 1995)
1949 – Danielle Bunten Berry , American game designer and programmer (d. 1998)
1949 – Eddie Hardin , English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point ) (d. 2015)
1949 – William Messner-Loebs , American author and illustrator
1950 – Juice Leskinen , Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1950 – Andy Powell , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wishbone Ash )
1951 – Stephen Nichols , American actor and director
1951 – Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri , Pakistani scholar and politician, founded Minhaj-ul-Quran
1952 – Rodolfo Neri Vela , Mexican engineer and astronaut
1952 – Amy Tan , American pathologist and author
1952 – Danilo Türk , Slovene academic and politician, 3rd President of Slovenia
1953 – Corrado Barazzutti , Italian tennis player
1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 52nd President of Argentina
1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor
1953 – Massimo Troisi , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1954 – Messaouda Boubaker , Tunisian writer
1954 – Francis Buchholz , German bass player (Scorpions and Michael Schenker Group )
1954 – Michael Gira , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Swans , Angels of Light , The World of Skin , and Circus Mort )
1954 – Sócrates , Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1955 – Jeff Daniels , American actor, singer, and playwright
1956 – Kathleen Beller , American actress
1956 – Peter Holsapple , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The dB's and The Continental Drifters )
1956 – Roderick MacKinnon , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 – Dave Wakeling , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beat and General Public )
1957 – Falco , Austrian singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
1957 – Lorianne Crook , American radio and television host
1957 – Ray Winstone , English actor, singer, and producer
1958 – Tommy Cairo , American wrestler
1958 – Helen Fielding , English author and screenwriter
1958 – Pierre-Loup Rajot , French actor and director
1959 – Roger Goodell , American businessman
1959 – Simmu Tiik , Estonian diplomat
1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York
1960 – Leslie Ash , English actress
1960 – John Paul, Jr. , American race car driver
1961 – Benoît Chamoux , French mountaineer (d. 1995)
1961 – Justin Fashanu , English footballer (d. 1998)
1961 – Andy Wallace , English race car driver
1962 – Hana Mandlíková , Czech-Australian tennis player and coach
1963 – Seal , English singer-songwriter
1963 – Laurell K. Hamilton , American author
1963 – Jessica Tuck , American actress
1964 – Doug Aldrich , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Whitesnake , Burning Rain , Hurricane , Bad Moon Rising , Lion , and Dio )
1964 – Jonathan Lethem , American author
1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov , Russian author and playwright
1964 – Richard A. Scott , American author and illustrator
1964 – Sonu Walia , Indian model and actress, Miss India 1985
1965 – Leroy , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Smash Mouth )
1965 – Jon Fishman , American drummer (Phish , Pork Tornado , and Surrender to the Air )
1965 – Clark Hunt , American businessman
1965 – Andy Jameson , English swimmer and sportscaster
1966 – Justine Bateman , American actress and producer
1966 – Paul Haarhuis , Dutch tennis player
1966 – Enzo Scifo , Belgian footballer and manager
1966 – Eduardo Xol , American designer and author
1967 – Benicio del Toro , Puerto Rican-American actor, director, and producer
1968 – Frank Watkins , American bass player (Obituary and Gorgoroth ) (d. 2015)
1969 – Burton C. Bell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fear Factory , Ascension of the Watchers , City of Fire , and GZR )
1969 – Helena Guergis , Canadian politician
1970 – Joacim Cans , Swedish singer-songwriter (HammerFall and Warlord )
1971 – Miguel Batista , Dominican baseball player and poet
1971 – Jeff Kinney , American author and illustrator
1971 – Lisa McCune , Australian actress and producer
1972 – Francine Fournier , American wrestler and manager
1972 – Sunset Thomas , American porn actress
1973 – Eric Lange , American actor
1973 – Nikos Oikonomou , Greek basketball player and coach
1974 – Danny Doring , American wrestler
1975 – Daniel Adair , Canadian drummer and producer (Nickelback and 3 Doors Down )
1975 – Katja Schuurman , Dutch actress and singer
1975 – Daewon Song , South Korean-American skateboarder, co-founded Almost Skateboards
1977 – Ola Salo , Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Ark )
1977 – Andrew Ross Sorkin , American journalist and author
1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta , Italian footballer and manager
1978 – Ben Gummer , English scholar and politician
1978 – Michalis Konstantinou , Cypriot footballer
1978 – Immortal Technique , Peruvian-American rapper
1978 – Stephanie Waring , English actress
1979 – Bassnectar , American DJ and producer
1979 – Mariska , Finnish rapper
1979 – Andrew Buchan , English actor
1979 – Steve Cherundolo , American soccer player and manager
1979 – Mariana Ochoa , Mexican singer and actress (OV7 )
1979 – René Renno , German footballer
1980 – Dwight Freeney , American football player
1980 – David Gandy , English model
1980 – Spyridon Gianniotis , Greek swimmer
1980 – Ma Lin , Chinese table tennis player
1980 – Mike Miller , American basketball player
1981 – Beth Ditto , American singer-songwriter (Gossip )
1981 – Kyle Martino , American soccer player
1981 – Gil Reyes , American boxer
1981 – Nicky Shorey , English footballer
1981 – Baiba Skride , Latvian classical violinist
1981 – Shawn Spears , Canadian wrestler
1981 – Vitas , Russian singer-songwriter
1982 – Camelia Potec , Romanian swimmer
1983 – Kotoōshū Katsunori , Bulgarian sumo wrestler
1983 – Mika Nakashima , Japanese singer and actress
1983 – Ryan Whitney , American ice hockey player
1984 – Chris Richardson , American singer-songwriter
1985 – Haylie Duff , American actress and singer
1985 – Arielle Kebbel , American actress
1985 – Sławomir Peszko , Polish footballer
1986 – Kyle Chipchura , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Björn Gustafsson , Swedish comedian and actor
1986 – Reon Kadena , Japanese model and actress
1986 – Henri Karjalainen , Finnish race car driver
1986 – Maria Mena , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1986 – Jayde Nicole , Canadian model
1986 – Michael Schwimer , American baseball player
1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Vanesa Furlanetto , Argentinian tennis player
1988 – Miyu Irino , Japanese voice actor
1988 – Shawn Matthias , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Seth Morrison , American guitarist (Skillet )
1988 – Selkirk , English race horse (d. 2013)
1989 – Kaisa Pajusalu , Estonian rower
1990 – Luke Pasqualino , English actor
1991 – Trevor Bayne , American race car driver
1992 – Sander Pärn , Estonian race car driver
1992 – Jelena Simić , Bosnian tennis player
1993 – Martín Alaníz , Uruguayan footballer
1993 – Mauro Icardi , Argentinian footballer
1993 – Victoria Justice , American actress, singer, and dancer
1993 – Empress Schuck , Filipino actress
1994 – Tiina Trutsi , Estonian footballer
1998 – Katharina Gerlach , German tennis player
2001 – David Mazouz , American actor
Deaths
197 – Clodius Albinus , Roman usurper (b. 150)
1133 – Irene Doukaina , Byzantine wife of Alexios I Komnenos (b. 1066)
1553 – Erasmus Reinhold , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
1605 – Orazio Vecchi , Italian composer (b. 1550)
1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (b. 1558)
1620 – Roemer Visscher , Dutch merchant and author (b. 1547)
1622 – Henry Savile , English scholar and politician (b. 1549)
1663 – Adam Adami , German bishop (b. 1603)
1672 – Charles Chauncy , English-American minister, theologian, and academic (b. 1592)
1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi , Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1716 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter , Norwegian author and poet (b. 1634)
1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke , American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (b. 1738)
1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda , French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (b. 1733)
1806 – Elizabeth Carter , English poet and translator (b. 1717)
1837 – Georg Büchner , German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
1837 – Thomas Burgess , English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
1887 – Multatuli , Dutch-German author (b. 1820)
1897 – Karl Weierstrass , German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
1915 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale , Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
1916 – Ernst Mach , Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1927 – Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
1936 – Charles Harding Firth , English historian and academic (b. 1857)
1936 – Billy Mitchell , American general and pilot (b. 1879)
1942 – Frank Abbandando , American gangster (b. 1910)
1945 – John Basilone , American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
1951 – André Gide , French novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1952 – Knut Hamsun , Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1957 – Maurice Garin , Italian-French cyclist (b. 1871)
1959 – Willard Miller , American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1877)
1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou , Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear (b. 1883)
1968 – Georg Hackenschmidt , Estonian-English strongman and wrestler (b. 1877)
1969 – Madge Blake , American actress (b. 1899)
1972 – John Grierson , Scottish-English director and producer (b. 1898)
1972 – Lee Morgan , American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
1972 – Tedd Pierce , American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1973 – Kostas Negrepontis , Greek footballer and manager (b. 1897)
1973 – Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
1977 – Anthony Crosland , English captain and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1918)
1977 – Mike González , Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
1980 – Bon Scott , Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (AC/DC , The Valentines , Fraternity , and The Spektors ) (b. 1946)
1983 – Alice White , American actress and singer (b. 1904)
1986 – Adolfo Celi , Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
1988 – André Frédéric Cournand , French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1992 – Tojo Yamamoto , American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
1994 – Derek Jarman , English director and set designer (b. 1942)
1996 – Charlie Finley , American businessman (b. 1918)
1997 – Frank Delfino , American actor (b. 1911)
1997 – Leo Rosten , Polish-American author and academic (b. 1908)
1997 – Deng Xiaoping , Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904)
1998 – Grandpa Jones , American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1913)
1999 – Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr , Iraqi cleric (b. 1943)
2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
2001 – Stanley Kramer , American director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 – Charles Trenet , French singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
2002 – Sylvia Rivera , American activist (b. 1951)
2003 – Johnny Paycheck , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
2007 – Janet Blair , American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2007 – Celia Franca , English-Canadian dancer and director, founded the National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
2008 – Yegor Letov , Russian singer-songwriter (Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) (b. 1964)
2008 – Lydia Shum , Chinese-Hong Kong actress and singer (b. 1945)
2009 – Kelly Groucutt , English singer and bass player (Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II ) (b. 1945)
2010 – Jamie Gillis , American porn actor and director (b. 1943)
2011 – Ollie Matson , American sprinter and football player (b. 1930)
2012 – Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale , Australian-English politician (b. 1933)
2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus , American philosopher and logician (b. 1921)
2012 – Frits Staal , Dutch philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
2012 – Stasys Stonkus , Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
2012 – Jaroslav Velinský , Czech author and songwriter (b. 1932)
2012 – Vitaly Vorotnikov , Russian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1926)
2013 – Armen Alchian , American economist and academic (b. 1914)
2013 – George Aratani , Japanese American entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of Mikasa china and owner of the Kenwood Electronics corporation (b. 1917)
2013 – John Brascia , American actor and dancer (b. 1932)
2013 – Park Chul-soo , South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2013 – Robert Coleman Richardson , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937)
2013 – Donald Richie , American-Japanese author and critic (b. 1924)
2013 – Eugene Whelan , Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)
2014 – Norbert Beuls , Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1957)
2014 – Kresten Bjerre , Danish footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2014 – Génesis Carmona , Venezuelan model (b. 1991)
2014 – Simón Díaz , Venezuelan singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
2014 – Dale Gardner , American captain and astronaut (b. 1948)
2014 – Valeri Kubasov , Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)
2015 – Betty Lou Bredemus , American actress and coach (b. 1934)
2015 – Harold Johnson , American boxer (b. 1928)
2015 – Nirad Mohapatra , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2015 – Harris Wittels , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1984)
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