July 24 is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 160 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily .
1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade .
1411 – Battle of Harlaw , one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden , Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer .
1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France .
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots , is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI .
1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain , which later becomes the city of Detroit .
1783 – The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk .
1814 – War of 1812 : General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown 's American invaders.
1823 – Slavery is abolished in Chile .
1823 – In Maracaibo , Venezuela the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia .
1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley , resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City . Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade .
1864 – American Civil War : Battle of Kernstown : Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley .
1866 – Reconstruction : Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër , putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910 .
1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu , "the Lost City of the Incas ".
1915 – The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes .
1922 – The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations ; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 – The Treaty of Lausanne , settling the boundaries of modern Turkey , is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I .
1924 – Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece .
1927 – The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres .
1929 – The Kellogg–Briand Pact , renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy , goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh kills 48 people.
1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee .
1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys ".
1938 – First ascent of the Eiger north face.
1943 – World War II : Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November , 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate ".
1963 – The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia . The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
1966 – Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
1967 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal : Vive le Québec libre ! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence , delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians .
1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1972 – Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
1974 – Watergate scandal : The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1977 – End of a four day long Libyan–Egyptian War .
1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics , the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
1982 – Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki , Japan, killing 299.
1983 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka , killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War .
1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees , has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident ".
1990 – Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait –Iraq border.
1991 – Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India
1998 – Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
2001 – Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria , becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420–1.
2011 – Digital switchover is completed in 44 of the 47 prefectures of Japan , with Iwate , Miyagi , and Fukushima television stations terminating analog broadcasting operations later as a result of the Tōhoku earthquake .
2013 – A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
2014 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso and Algiers with 116 people on board. The wreckage is later found in Mali .
Births
923 – Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952)
1468 – Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1524)
1529 – Charles II, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1577)
1561 – Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern (d. 1589)
1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger , Swiss physician and author (d. 1628)
1660 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1718)
1725 – John Newton , English sailor and priest (d. 1807)
1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky , Ukrainian-Russian painter (d. 1825)
1783 – Simón Bolívar , Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela (d. 1830)
1786 – Joseph Nicollet , French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1794 – Johan Georg Forchhammer , Danish mineralogist and geologist (d. 1865)
1802 – Alexandre Dumas , French author and playwright (d. 1870)
1803 – Adolphe Adam , French composer and critic (d. 1856)
1821 – William Poole , American boxer and gangster (d. 1855)
1826 – Jan Gotlib Bloch , Polish theorist and activist (d. 1902)
1851 – Friedrich Schottky , Polish-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1935)
1853 – William Gillette , American actor and author (d. 1937)
1856 – Émile Picard , French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
1857 – Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1857 – Juan Vicente Gómez , Venezuelan general and politician, 27th President of Venezuela (d. 1935)
1860 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1919)
1860 – Alphonse Mucha , Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1939)
1864 – Frank Wedekind , German actor and playwright (d. 1918)
1867 – Vicente Acosta , Salvadoran journalist and poet (d. 1908)
1867 – E. F. Benson , English archaeologist and author (d. 1940)
1867 – Fred Tate , English cricketer and coach (d. 1943)
1874 – Oswald Chambers , Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)
1877 – Calogero Vizzini , Italian mob boss (d. 1954)
1878 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany , Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1957)
1880 – Ernest Bloch , Swiss-American composer and educator (d. 1959)
1884 – Maria Caserini , Italian actress (d. 1969)
1886 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Japanese author (d. 1965)
1888 – Arthur Richardson , Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1973)
1895 – Robert Graves , English-Spanish author, poet, and scholar (d. 1985)
1897 – Amelia Earhart , American pilot and author (d. 1937)
1899 – Chief Dan George , Canadian actor (d. 1981)
1899 – Bernice Madigan , American super-centenarian (d. 2015)
1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald , American author and poet (d. 1948)
1901 – Francisco Fernández Fernández , Spanish super-centenarian (d. 2012)
1904 – Leo Arnaud , French-American trombonist, composer, and conductor (d. 1991)
1904 – Richard B. Morris , American historian and academic (d. 1989)
1910 – Harry Horner , American director and production designer (d. 1994)
1912 – Essie Summers , New Zealand author (d. 1998)
1913 – Britton Chance , American biologist and sailor (d. 2010)
1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey , Canadian pharmacologist and physician (d. 2015)
1914 – Ed Mirvish , American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
1915 – Enrique Fernando , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (d. 2004)
1916 – Bob Eberly , American singer (d. 1981)
1916 – John D. MacDonald , American colonel and author (d. 1986)
1917 – Robert Farnon , Canadian trumpet player, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
1918 – Ruggiero Ricci , American violinist and educator (d. 2012)
1919 – Robert Marsden Hope , Australian lawyer and judge (d. 1999)
1919 – Ferdinand Kübler , Swiss cyclist
1919 – John Winkin , American baseball player, coach, and journalist (d. 2014)
1920 – Bella Abzug , American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1920 – Constance Dowling , American model and actress (d. 1969)
1921 – Giuseppe Di Stefano , Italian tenor and actor (d. 2008)
1921 – Billy Taylor , American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1922 – Madeleine Ferron , Canadian radio host and author (d. 2010)
1924 – Wilfred Josephs , English composer (d. 1997)
1924 – Aris Poulianos , Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
1927 – Alex Katz , American painter and sculptor
1927 – Zara Mints , Russian-Estonian philologist and academic (d. 1990)
1930 – Alfred Balk , American journalist and author (d. 2010)
1930 – Keshubhai Patel , Indian politician, 10th Chief Minister of Gujarat
1931 – Ermanno Olmi , Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1931 – Éric Tabarly , French commander (d. 1998)
1932 – Gustav Andreas Tammann , German astronomer and academic
1933 – John Aniston , Greek-American actor
1933 – Doug Sanders , American golfer
1934 – Sante Kimes , American murderer (d. 2014)
1934 – P. S. Soosaithasan , Sri Lankan accountant and politician
1935 – Aaron Elkins , American author and academic
1935 – Pat Oliphant , Australian cartoonist
1935 – Mel Ramos , American painter, illustrator, and academic
1935 – Les Reed , English pianist, composer, and conductor
1935 – Derek Varnals , South African cricketer
1936 – Ruth Buzzi , American actress
1936 – Mark Goddard , American actor
1936 – Dan Inosanto , American martial artist and actor
1936 – Albert Marrin , American historian and author
1937 – Manoj Kumar , Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Quinlan Terry , English architect, designed the Brentwood Cathedral
1938 – Alexis Jacquemin , Belgian economist and academic (d. 2004)
1938 – Eugene J. Martin , American painter
1938 – John Sparling , New Zealand cricketer
1939 – Walt Bellamy , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1939 – David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury , English businessman and politician
1940 – Rex Garvin , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2013)
1940 – Stanley Hauerwas , American theologian and educator
1940 – Dan Hedaya , American actor
1941 – John Bond , English banker and businessman
1942 – Heinz , German-English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Tornados ) (d. 2000)
1942 – David Miner , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Great Society )
1942 – Chris Sarandon , American actor
1944 – Jim Armstrong , Irish guitarist (Them )
1945 – Frank Close , English physicist and academic
1945 – Linda Harrison , American actress
1945 – Azim Premji , Indian businessman and philanthropist
1945 – Hugh Ross , Canadian-American astrophysicist and astronomer
1945 – Anthony Watts , English geologist, geophysicist, and academic
1946 – Gallagher , American comedian and actor
1946 – Friedhelm Haebermann , German footballer and manager
1946 – Hervé Vilard , French singer-songwriter
1947 – Zaheer Abbas , Pakistani cricketer and manager
1947 – David Acfield , English cricketer and fencer
1947 – Robert Hays , American actor and producer
1947 – Geoff McQueen , English screenwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1947 – Peter Serkin , American pianist and educator
1948 – Michael Coveney , English author and critic
1949 – Yves Duteil , French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Michael Richards , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – Arliss Ryan , American author
1951 – Lynda Carter , American actress and singer
1951 – Gypie Mayo , English guitarist and songwriter (Dr. Feelgood and The Yardbirds ) (d. 2013)
1951 – Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury , English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1952 – Gus Van Sant , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1953 – Julian Brazier , English captain and politician
1953 – Jon Faddis , American trumpet player, composer, and conductor
1953 – Claire McCaskill , American lawyer and politician
1953 – James Newcome , English bishop
1954 – Erdoğan Arıca , Turkish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1954 – Günter Böttcher , German handball player (d. 2012)
1955 – Brad Watson , American author and academic
1956 – Charlie Crist , American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Florida
1956 – Pat Finn , American game show host and producer
1957 – Susan Gelman , American psychologist and academic
1957 – Larry Gott , English singer and guitarist (James )
1957 – Pam Tillis , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1958 – Joe Barry Carroll , American basketball player and philanthropist
1958 – Mick Karn , Cypriot-English guitarist and songwriter (Japan , Dalis Car , NiNa , and JBK ) (d. 2011)
1958 – Jim Leighton , Scottish footballer and coach
1960 – Catherine Destivelle , French rock climber and mountaineer
1961 – Kerry Dixon , English footballer and manager
1961 – Paul Geary , American singer, drummer, and manager (Extreme )
1962 – Johnny O'Connell , American race car driver and sportscaster
1963 – Julie Krone , American jockey and sportscaster
1963 – Karl Malone , American basketball player and coach
1964 – Barry Bonds , American baseball player
1964 – Pedro Passos Coelho , Portuguese economist and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1964 – Urmas Kaljend , Estonian footballer
1964 – John Rosengren , American journalist and author
1964 – Banana Yoshimoto , Japanese author
1965 – Andrew Gaze , Australian basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Kadeem Hardison , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965 – Doug Liman , American director and producer
1966 – Mo-Do , Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1966 – Martin Keown , English footballer and coach
1968 – Kristin Chenoweth , American actress and singer
1968 – Colleen Doran , American author and illustrator
1968 – Malcolm Ingram , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Laura Leighton , American actress
1969 – Rick Fox , Bahamian basketball player and actor
1969 – Ahn Ji-hwan , South Korean voice actor
1969 – Jennifer Lopez , American actress, singer, and dancer
1970 – Stephanie Adams , American model and author
1970 – Julia Bradbury , Irish-English journalist
1970 – Anja Garbarek , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1970 – Elli Kokkinou , Greek singer
1971 – Dino Baggio , Italian footballer
1971 – John Partridge , English actor, singer, and dancer
1972 – Kaiō Hiroyuki , Japanese sumo wrestler
1972 – Jen Miller , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Amanda Stretton , English race car driver and journalist
1975 – Tracey Crouch , English politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1975 – Dafydd James , Zambian-Welsh rugby player
1975 – Jamie Langenbrunner , American ice hockey player
1975 – Eric Szmanda , American actor
1975 – Torrie Wilson , American wrestler and model
1976 – Rafer Alston , American basketball player
1976 – Nate Bump , American baseball player
1976 – Laura Fraser , Scottish actress
1976 – Tiago Monteiro , Portuguese race car driver and manager
1977 – Danny Dyer , English actor
1977 – Mehdi Mahdavikia , Iranian footballer and manager
1977 – Aitor Pérez , Spanish cyclist
1978 – Andy Irons , American surfer (d. 2010)
1978 – Joanna Taylor , English model and actress
1979 – Rose Byrne , Australian actress and singer
1979 – Alexis Mateo , Puerto Rican drag queen performer
1979 – Jerrod Niemann , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Stat Quo , American rapper and producer
1979 – Valerio Scassellati , Italian race car driver
1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot , French tennis player
1979 – Lee Si-yeon , South Korean actress and model
1979 – Mark Andrew Smith , American author
1979 – Ryan Speier , American baseball player
1980 – Gauge , American porn actress
1980 – Wilfred Bungei , Kenyan runner
1980 – Joel Stroetzel , American guitarist (Killswitch Engage and Aftershock )
1981 – Doug Bollinger , Australian cricketer
1981 – Summer Glau , American actress and ballerina
1981 – Mark Robinson , English footballer
1982 – Chris Barrett , American director, producer, and author
1982 – Élise Crombez , Belgian model
1982 – Luka Magnotta , Canadian porn actor and model
1982 – Trevor Matthews , Canadian actor and producer, founded Brookstreet Pictures
1982 – Thiago Medeiros , Brazilian race car driver
1982 – Mewelde Moore , American football player
1982 – Elisabeth Moss , American actress
1982 – Anna Paquin , Canadian-New Zealand actress, singer, and producer
1982 – Michael Poppmeier , South African-German rugby player
1983 – Daniele De Rossi , Italian footballer
1983 – Joey Kovar , American model (d. 2012)
1983 – Asami Mizukawa , Japanese actress
1984 – Patrick Harvey , Australian actor
1984 – Tyler Kyte , Canadian actor, singer, and drummer (Sweet Thing )
1984 – Dhani Lennevald , Swedish singer and dancer (A-Teens )
1984 – Leanne Moore , Irish singer
1984 – Adam Nelson , Scottish footballer
1984 – Joris Putman , Dutch actor
1985 – Patrice Bergeron , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Aries Merritt , American hurdler
1985 – Teagan Presley , American porn actress
1985 – Lukáš Rosol , Czech tennis player
1985 – Eric Wright , American football player
1986 – Vugar Gashimov , Azerbaijani chess player (d. 2014)
1986 – Andrei Lutai , Russian figure skater
1986 – Megan Park , Canadian actress and singer
1986 – Kaido Saks , Estonian basketball player
1986 – Natalie Tran , Australian blogger
1987 – Jovan Belcher , American football player (d. 2012)
1987 – Filipe Francisco dos Santos , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Nathan Gerbe , American ice hockey player
1987 – Zack Sabre, Jr. , English wrestler
1987 – Merve Sevi , Turkish actress
1987 – Mara Wilson , American actress and playwright
1988 – Ricky Petterd , Australian footballer
1988 – Han Seung-yeon , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Kara )
1989 – Maurkice Pouncey , American football player
1989 – Kim Tae-hwan , South Korean footballer
1990 – Daveigh Chase , American actress and singer
1990 – Jay McGuiness , English singer (The Wanted )
1990 – Dean Stoneman , English race car driver
1991 – Manuel Fischnaller , Italian footballer
1991 – Emily Bett Rickards , Canadian actress
1991 – Lin Yue , Chinese diver
1992 – Dmitry Abyzov , Russian footballer
1992 – Mitch Grassi , American singer-songwriter (Pentatonix )
1992 – Mikaël Kingsbury , Canadian skier
1994 – Alejandra Álvarez , Ecuadorian tennis player
1998 – Bindi Irwin , Australian actress, singer, and television host
Deaths
811 – Gao Ying , Chinese politician (b. 740)
946 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid , Egyptian ruler (b. 882)
1115 – Matilda of Tuscany (b. 1046)
1129 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1053)
1240 – Konrad von Thüringen , German knight (b. 1206)
1568 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (b. 1545)
1594 – John Boste , English martyr and saint (b. 1544)
1739 – Benedetto Marcello , Italian composer and educator (b. 1686)
1768 – Nathaniel Lardner , English theologian and author (b. 1684)
1862 – Martin Van Buren , American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)
1891 – Hermann Raster , German-American journalist and politician (b. 1827)
1908 – Vicente Acosta , Salvadoran journalist and poet (b. 1867)
1910 – Arkhip Kuindzhi , Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841)
1922 – Saint George Ashe , Maltese-English rower (b. 1871)
1927 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Japanese author (b. 1892)
1941 – Afife Jale , Turkish actress (b. 1902)
1957 – Sacha Guitry , French actor and director (b. 1885)
1962 – Wilfrid Noyce , English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
1965 – Constance Bennett , American actress, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
1966 – Tony Lema , American golfer (b. 1934)
1969 – Witold Gombrowicz , Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
1970 – Peter de Noronha , Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
1974 – James Chadwick , English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1980 – Uttam Kumar , Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1926)
1980 – Peter Sellers , English actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
1985 – Ezechiele Ramin , Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
1986 – Fritz Albert Lipmann , German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Qudrat Ullah Shahab , Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)
1989 – Mark Morrisroe , American photographer (b. 1959)
1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-American author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1992 – Arletty , French actress and singer (b. 1898)
1992 – Sam Berger , Canadian lawyer and businessman (b. 1900)
1993 – Rene Requiestas , Filipino actor (b. 1957)
1995 – Marjorie Cameron , American actress and painter (b. 1922)
1995 – Jerry Lordan , English singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
1995 – George Rodger , English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
1996 – Alphonso Theodore Roberts , Vincentian cricketer and activist (b. 1937)
1997 – William J. Brennan, Jr. , American colonel and jurist (b. 1906)
1997 – Saw Maung , Burmese general and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1928)
2000 – Ahmad Shamloo , Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
2000 – G. Wood , American actor (b. 1919)
2001 – Georges Dor , Canadian author, playwright, and composer (b. 1931)
2001 – May Lesser Hyman , American illustrator (b. 1927)
2004 – Bob Azzam , Lebanese singer (b. 1925)
2005 – Richard Doll , English physiologist and epidemiologist (b. 1912)
2007 – Albert Ellis , American psychologist and author (b. 1913)
2007 – Chaney Kley , American actor (b. 1972)
2007 – Nicola Zaccaria , Greek opera singer (b. 1923)
2008 – Norman Dello Joio , American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2010 – Alex Higgins , Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
2011 – Frank Dietrich , German politician (b. 1966)
2011 – Dan Peek , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (America ) (b. 1950)
2011 – Harald Johnsen , Norwegian bassist and composer (b. 1970)
2011 – David Servan-Schreiber , French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961)
2011 – G. D. Spradlin , American actor and director (b. 1920)
2011 – Skip Thomas , American football player (b. 1950)
2012 – Chad Everett , American actor and director (b. 1936)
2012 – Sherman Hemsley , American actor and singer (b. 1938)
2012 – Larry Hoppen , American singer and guitarist (Orleans ) (b. 1951)
2012 – Robert Ledley , American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926)
2012 – Themo Lobos , Chilean author and illustrator (b. 1928)
2012 – John Atta Mills , Ghanaian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Ghana (b. 1944)
2012 – Gregorio Peces-Barba , Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Garry Davis , American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921)
2013 – Fred Dretske , American philosopher and academic (b. 1932)
2013 – Virginia E. Johnson , American psychologist and sexologist (b. 1925)
2013 – Pius Langa , South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1939)
2013 – Chiwoniso Maraire , Zimbabwean singer-songwriter (b. 1976)
2013 – Donald Symington , American actor (b. 1925)
2014 – Ik-Hwan Bae , South Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956)
2014 – Yoo Chae-yeong , South Korean-American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1973)
2014 – Christian Falk , Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (Imperiet ) (b. 1962)
2014 – Dale Schlueter , American basketball player (b. 1945)
2014 – Hans-Hermann Sprado , German journalist and author (b. 1956)
2015 – Peg Lynch , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
2015 – Jim Mitchell , American captain, lawyer, and judge (b. 1946)
2015 – Ingrid Sischy , South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952)
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