What Happened in 2013 — Events, Births & Deaths

At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.

More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.

One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.

A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.

Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter.

Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.

At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.

The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public.

The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

A blizzard kills at least 18 and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.

Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI will resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.

Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff.

A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.

Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.

A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so voluntarily since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.

A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 48 people and injured 200 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim area.

The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.

At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.

At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.

At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.

Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali.

Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with President Mahmoud Abbas.

Lion Air Flight 904 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Indonesia, injuring 40 people.

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.

A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Balochistan province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.

The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

The ceremonial funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher takes place at St Paul's Cathedral.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.

At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.

National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.

Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.

Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.

American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.

An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.

An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.

Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by two Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London.

A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.

Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.

Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey.

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.

A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes near El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities (including three storm chasers) and over 150 injuries.

The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

Militants storm a high-altitude mountaineering base camp near Nanga Parbat in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and engaging in sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.

Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.

Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.

Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.

President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is removed from office by the military after four days of protests all over the country calling for his resignation, to which he did not respond. The president of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, Adly Mansour, is declared acting president until further elections are held.

At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.

A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.

A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into flames, killing at least 47 people and destroying more than 30 buildings in the town's central area.

A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.

Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan.

Dedication of the statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture of the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.

Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.

The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.

Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG).

Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.

Santiago de Compostela derailment: 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.

Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.

A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.

Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.

Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.

UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.

At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.

The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.

The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.

The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.

A riot at the Palmasola prison complex in Santa Cruz, Bolivia kills 31 people.

The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 pm at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span.

Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.

The first Minotaur V rocket is launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, carrying NASA's LADEE spacecraft.

NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.

Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

A VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.

Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Twenty-five people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.

Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Nigeria.

At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.

An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.

A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.

The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.

Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.

One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.

Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.

Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India.

India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD; equivalent to $3.95 billion in 2025) in damage.

Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.

A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.

NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.

Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.

Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.

Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

LAM Mozambique Airlines 470 crashes in the Bwabata National Park in a pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 33 people on board.

Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.

Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.

Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.

At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.

A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.

A bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, capital of the Philippines, killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.

Spacecraft Gaia is launched by the European Space Agency.

An Irkut-Avia Antonov An-12 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Northwest Airport, killing all nine people on board.

A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.

Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.

More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Big Justice, American social media personality

Prince George of Wales

Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (born 1920)

Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (born 1944)

Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (born 1913)

Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist, explorer, and author (born 1942)

William Maxson, American general (born 1930)

Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (born 1931)

Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1951)

Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (born 1938)

Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (born 1923)

Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (born 1927)

Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (born 1920)

Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (born 1930)

Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English immunologist and academic (born 1923)

James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

Robert L. Rock, American businessman and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (born 1927)

John Wise, Canadian farmer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1935)

Guido Forti, Italian businessman, founded the Forti Racing Team (born 1940)

Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam (born 1927)

Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (born 1941)

Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (born 1935)

Alemayehu Shumye, Ethiopian runner (born 1988)

Aaron Swartz, American programmer and activist (born 1986)

Precious Bryant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)

Flor María Chalbaud, First Lady of Venezuela (born 1921)

Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (born 1923)

Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)

Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (born 1924)

Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (born 1916)

Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (born 1923)

Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1932)

John Thomas, American high jumper (born 1941)

Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)

André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (born 1926)

Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1923)

Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (born 1941)

Sean Fallon, Irish footballer and manager (born 1922)

Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)

Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)

Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)

Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)

Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)

Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (born 1933)

Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (born 1911)

Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (born 1941)

Chumpol Silpa-archa, Thai academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1940)

Michael Winner, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1935)

Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (born 1929)

Hinton Mitchem, American businessman and politician (born 1938)

Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (born 1929)

Martial Asselin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1924)

Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (born 1929)

Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (born 1923)

Christine M. Jones, American educator and politician (born 1929)

Stefan Kudelski, Polish-Swiss engineer, inventor of the Nagra (born 1929)

Padma Kant Shukla, Indian physicist and academic (born 1950)

Shōtarō Yasuoka, Japanese author (born 1920)

Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (born 1918)

Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (born 1925)

Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (born 1936)

Hattie N. Harrison, American educator and politician (born 1928)

Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1940)

Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (born 1923)

Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (born 1937)

Helene Hale, American politician (born 1918)

Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (born 1924)

Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (born 1928)

Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)

Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (born 1961)

John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (born 1931)

Cardiss Collins, American politician (born 1931)

Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (born 1921)

James Muri, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)

Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (born 1954)

Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (born 1932)

Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (born 1941)

Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (born 1934)

Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (born 1924)

Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (born 1921)

Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (born 1964)

Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)

Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (born 1933)

Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (born 1918)

James DePreist, American conductor and educator (born 1936)

Maureen Dragone, American journalist and author (born 1920)

Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (born 1918)

Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (born 1923)

Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist and trainer (born 1913)

Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (born 1931)

W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (born 1927)

David Hartman, American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, founded the Shalom Hartman Institute (born 1931)

Rick Huxley, English bass player (born 1940)

Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1941)

Reginald Turnill, English journalist and author (born 1915)

Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 2nd Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ukraine (born 1931)

Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)

Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)

Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)

Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916)

Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)

Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (born 1924)

Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (born 1931)

Sanan Kachornprasart, Thai general and politician (born 1935)

Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bangladeshi atheist blogger

Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (born 1991)

Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (born 1918)

Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)

Richard Briers, English actor (born 1934)

Shmulik Kraus, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (born 1935)

Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (born 1914)

Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1948)

Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)

Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (born 1924)

Eugene Whelan, Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)

Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (born 1970)

David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (born 1936)

Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (born 1932)

Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (born 1925)

Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (born 1938)

Jean-Louis Michon, French-Swiss scholar and translator (born 1924)

Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (born 1923)

Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (born 1918)

Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (born 1922)

Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (born 1920)

Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (born 1945)

Virgil Johnson, American singer (born 1935)

Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (born 1923)

Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (born 1926)

Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (born 1917)

Simon Li, Hong Kong judge and politician (born 1922)

Van Cliburn, American pianist (born 1934)

Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (born 1969)

Dale Robertson, American actor (born 1923)

Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (born 1943)

Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (born 1944)

Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (born 1945)

Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author (born 1942)

Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1940)

James Strong, Qantas CEO from 1993 to 2001 (born 1944)

Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (born 1923)

Mickey Moore, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1914)

Toren Smith, Canadian businessman, founded Studio Proteus (born 1960)

Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (born 1954)

Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)

Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (born 1921)

Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1970)

Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)

Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (born 1930)

Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)

Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)

Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

John O'Connell, Irish politician, Irish Minister of Health (born 1927)

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (born 1922)

Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (born 1923)

Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (born 1928)

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)

Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (born 1930)

Simón Alberto Consalvi, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (born 1927)

Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)

Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)

Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (born 1957)

Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930)

Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936)

Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925)

Booth Gardner, American businessman and politician, Governor of Washington (born 1936)

Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player (born 1935)

Leverne McDonnell, Australian actress (born 1963)

Peter Worsley, English sociologist (born 1924)

Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)

Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (born 1986)

Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (born 1914)

Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)

Frank Thornton, English actor (born 1921)

William B. Caldwell III, American general (born 1925)

Lawrence Fuchs, American scholar and academic (born 1927)

A.B.C. Whipple, American journalist and historian (born 1918)

Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (born 1935)

Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (born 1947)

Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (born 1938)

James Herbert, English author (born 1943)

George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (born 1924)

Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (born 1929)

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic (born 1930)

Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)

Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)

Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (born 1946)

Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (born 1926)

Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)

Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1919)

Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (born 1926)

Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)

Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)

Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (born 1972)

Léonce Bernard, Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1943)

Ben Goldfaden, American basketball player and educator (born 1913)

Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (born 1927)

Jean Pickering, English runner and long jumper (born 1929)

Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (born 1954)

John F. Wiley, American lieutenant, football player, and coach (born 1920)

Tom Boerwinkle, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1945)

Krzysztof Kozłowski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Interior (born 1931)

Dave Leggett, American football player (born 1933)

Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (born 1964)

Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (born 1923)

Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (born 1924)

Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (born 1917)

George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (born 1919)

Richard Griffiths, English actor (born 1947)

Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (born 1942)

Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (born 1929)

Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (born 1930)

Reginald Gray, Irish-French painter (born 1930)

Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (born 1931)

Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (born 1942)

Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (born 1930)

Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (born 1923)

Bobby Parks, American basketball player and coach (born 1962)

Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (born 1934)

Edith Schaeffer, Chinese-Swiss religious leader and author, co-founded L'Abri (born 1914)

Bob Turley, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (born 1947)

Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (born 1952)

Fred, French author and illustrator (born 1931)

Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (born 1930)

Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (born 1926)

Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (born 1930)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1927)

Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)

Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (born 1942)

Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (born 1925)

Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)

Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1933)

Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (born 1972)

Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)

Hilda Bynoe, Grenadian physician and politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (born 1921)

Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (born 1931)

Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1946)

Mikhail Beketov, Russian journalist (born 1958)

Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (born 1942)

Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (born 1928)

José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (born 1917)

Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1925)

Robert Edwards, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)

Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (born 1921)

Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1953)

Sue Draheim, American fiddler (born1949)

Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1922)

Thomas Hemsley, English actor and singer (born 1927)

Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist (born 1916)

Gilles Marchal, French singer-songwriter (born 1944)

Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (born 1928)

Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (born 1964)

Michael France, American screenwriter (born 1962)

Brennan Manning, American priest and author (born 1934)

Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (born 1924)

Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (born 1937)

Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (born 1927)

R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (born 1930)

George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (born 1915)

Charlie Wilson, American politician (born 1943)

Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1930)

Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (born 1946)

Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (born 1928)

Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (born 1928)

Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (born 1926)

Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1925)

George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (born 1909)

Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (born 1930)

Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (born 1919)

Carlos Graça, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (born 1931)

Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer (born ≈1910)

Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (born 1957)

V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (born 1934)

Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (born 1947)

Anne Williams, English activist (born 1951)

François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)

Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)

Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (born 1929)

Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (born 1905)

Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)

Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

Bob Brozman, American guitarist (born 1954)

Robert W. Edgar, American educator and politician (born 1943)

Tony Grealish, English footballer (born 1956)

Antonio Maccanico, Italian banker and politician (born 1924)

Brian Adam, Scottish biochemist and politician (born 1948)

Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (born 1919)

György Berencsi, Hungarian virologist and academic (born 1941)

Rick Camp, American baseball player (born 1953)

Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930)

George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)

Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948)

Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (born 1938)

Lorraine Copeland, Scottish archaeologist (born 1921)

Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (born 1969)

Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist and author (born 1917)

Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (born 1916)

Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician, Kenyan Minister of Justice (born 1948)

Brad Lesley, American baseball player (born 1958)

Fredrick McKissack, American author (born 1939)

John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)

Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (born 1924)

Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (born 1924)

Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (born 1992)

Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (born 1924)

John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (born 1920)

Kevin Moore, English footballer (born 1958)

Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (born 1990)

Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (born 1937)

Shirley Firth, Canadian skier (born 1953)

Viviane Forrester, French author and critic (born 1925)

Chris Kelly, American rapper (born 1978)

Ernie Field, English boxer (born 1943)

Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1964)

Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (born 1947)

Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (born 1932)

Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (born 1980)

Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (born 1918)

Joe Astroth, American baseball player (born 1922)

Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (born 1926)

Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (born 1943)

Keith Carter, American swimmer and soldier (born 1924)

Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (born 1958)

David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (born 1909)

Curtis Rouse, American football player (born 1960)

Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Minister of Defence for Croatia (born 1958)

Otis Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (born 1918)

Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (born 1948)

Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (born 1935)

Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (born 1914)

César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (born 1922)

Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (born 1935)

Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (born 1937)

Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1919)

Severo Aparicio Quispe, Peruvian bishop (born 1923)

Michelangelo Spensieri, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)

Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)

George Sauer, Jr., American football player (born 1943)

Jeanne Cooper, American actress (born 1928)

Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)

Juan José Muñoz, Argentinian businessman (born 1950)

Hugh J. Silverman, American philosopher and theorist (born 1945)

Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1952)

George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1918)

Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (born 1933)

Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (born 1921)

Gerd Langguth, German political scientist, author, and academic (born 1946)

Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (born 1927)

Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (born 1937)

Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (born 1954)

Chuck Muncie, American football player (born 1953)

Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (born 1973)

Wayne Brown, American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (born 1936)

Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (born 1962)

Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (born 1939)

Ray Guy, Canadian journalist (born 1939)

Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1946)

Angelo Errichetti, American politician (born 1928)

Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (born 1957)

Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (born 1948)

Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)

Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (born 1940)

Dick Trickle, American race car driver (born 1941)

Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (born 1921)

Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (born 1973)

Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (born 1930)

Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (born 1931)

Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine Commander in Chief and dictator (born 1925)

Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1959)

Jo Benkow, Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1924)

Steve Forrest, American actor (born 1925)

David McMillan, American football player (born 1981)

Lothar Schmid, German chess player (born 1928)

G. Sarsfield Ford, American lawyer and jurist (born 1933)

Robin Harrison, English-Canadian pianist and composer (born 1932)

Neil Reynolds, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1940)

Flavio Costantini, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1926)

Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1924)

Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (born 1947)

Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (born 1924)

Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (born 1939)

Denys Roberts, English judge and politician (born 1923)

Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter (born 1995)

Count Christian of Rosenborg, member of the Danish royal family (born 1942)

Frank Comstock, American trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1922)

Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)

Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1933)

Bob Thompson, American pianist and composer (born 1924)

Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (born 1935)

Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (born 1922)

Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (born 1942)

Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (born 1938)

Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)

Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (born 1941)

Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (born 1929)

Ron Davies, Welsh footballer (born 1942)

Gotthard Graubner, German painter (born 1930)

Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (born 1931)

Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (born 1925)

Mahendra Karma, Indian politician (born 1950)

Nand Kumar Patel, Indian politician (born 1953)

Ray Barnhart, American businessman and politician (born 1928)

John Bierwirth, American lawyer and businessman (born 1924)

Roberto Civita, Italian-Brazilian businessman (born 1936)

Tom Lichtenberg, American football player and coach (born 1940)

Otto Muehl, Austrian painter (born 1925)

Jack Vance, American author (born 1916)

Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (born 1917)

Bill Pertwee, English actor (born 1926)

Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931)

Viktor Kulikov, Russian commander (born 1921)

Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, screenwriter, and National Artist for Cinema and Broadcast Arts (born 1924)

Gerd Schmückle, German general (born 1917)

Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (born 1940)

Françoise Blanchard, French actress (born 1954)

Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (born 1928)

Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (born 1955)

Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (born 1923)

Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (born 1953)

Larry Jones, American football player and coach (born 1933)

Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (born 1926)

Frederic Lindsay, Scottish author and educator (born 1933)

Miguel Méndez, American author and poet (born 1930)

Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser (born 1957)

Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (born 1987)

Jean Stapleton, American actress (born 1923)

James Kelleher, Canadian lawyer and politician, 33rd Solicitor General of Canada (born 1930)

Mario Bernardi, Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1930)

Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (born 1930)

Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)

Atul Chitnis, German-Indian technologist and journalist (born 1962)

Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)

Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (born 1924)

Walt Arfons, American race car driver (born 1916)

Joey Covington, American drummer (born 1945)

Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (born 1946)

Will Wynn, American football player (born 1949)

Helen McElhone, Scottish politician (born 1933)

Stanisław Nagy, Polish cardinal (born 1921)

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish republican activist and politician (born 1932)

Michel Ostyn, Belgian physiologist and physician (born 1924)

Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (born 1918)

Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (born 1921)

Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928)

Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)

Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (born 1948)

Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (born 1930)

Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (born 1942)

Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954)

Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926)

Doug Bailey, American political consultant (born 1933)

Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1922)

Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (born 1921)

Miller Barber, American golfer (born 1931)

Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Kristiāns Pelšs, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1992)

Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (born 1929)

Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (born 1908)

Jason Leffler, American racing driver (born 1975)

David Deutsch, American businessman, founded Deutsch Inc. (born 1929)

Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)

Albert White Hat, American educator and activist (born 1938)

Elroy Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)

Heinz Flohe, German footballer and manager (born 1948)

José Froilán González, Argentinian racing driver (born 1922)

Dennis O'Rourke, Australian director and producer (born 1945)

Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)

Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO (born 1924)

Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (born 1919)

Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (born 1950)

Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist and author (born 1921)

Ottmar Walter, German footballer (born 1924)

Michael Baigent, New Zealand-English theorist and author (born 1948)

Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer (born 1930)

Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (born 1927)

Bulbs Ehlers, American basketball player (born 1923)

James Holshouser, American politician, 68th Governor of North Carolina (born 1934)

Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (born 1932)

Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (born 1955)

Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924)

Vince Flynn, American author (born 1966)

James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)

Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1932)

Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (born 1952)

Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1965)

Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (born 1922)

James P. Gordon, American physicist and academic (born 1928)

Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (born 1920)

Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)

Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (born 1978)

Bobby Bland, American singer-songwriter (born 1930)

Gary David Goldberg, American screenwriter and producer (born 1944)

Frank Kelso, American admiral and politician, United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1933)

Kurt Leichtweiss, German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Darryl Read, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (born 1951)

Sharon Stouder, American swimmer (born 1948)

Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (born 1946)

Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920)

Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (born 1932)

William Hathaway, American lawyer and politician (born 1924)

James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (born 1933)

Alan Myers, American drummer (born 1955)

George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)

Catherine Gibson, Scottish swimmer (born 1931)

Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (born 1916)

Harry Parker, American rower and coach (born 1935)

Mildred Ladner Thompson, American journalist (born 1918)

Green Wix Unthank, American soldier and judge (born 1923)

Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpet player and composer (born 1939)

Edward Huggins Johnstone, Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (born 1922)

Byron Looper, American politician (born 1964)

Justin Miller, American baseball player (born 1977)

Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (born 1934)

Stefano Borgonovo, Italian footballer (born 1964)

Ian Scott, English-New Zealand painter (born 1945)

Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (born 1927)

Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (born 1932)

Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (born 1930)

F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (born 1928)

David Rubitsky, American sergeant (born 1917)

Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (born 1937)

Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (born 1922)

Gilma Jiménez, Colombian politician (born 1956)

Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (born 1917)

Akpor Pius Ewherido, Nigerian politician (born 1963)

Kathryn Morrison, American educator and politician (born 1942)

Thompson Oliha, Nigerian footballer (born 1968)

Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (born 1920)

Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (born 1926)

Charles Foley, American game designer, co-creator of Twister (born 1930)

William H. Gray, American minister and politician (born 1941)

Anthony G. Bosco, American bishop (born 1927)

Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (born 1925)

Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1921)

Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist, academic, and astronaut (born 1933)

Roman Bengez, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1964)

Francis Ray, American author (born 1944)

PJ Torokvei, Canadian actress and screenwriter (born 1951)

Radu Vasile, Romanian historian and politician, 57th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1942)

Bernard Vitet, French trumpet player and composer (born 1934)

Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1948)

Onllwyn Brace, Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (born 1932)

Jack Crompton, English footballer and manager (born 1921)

James Fulton, American dermatologist and academic (born 1940)

Charles A. Hines, American general (born 1935)

David Cargo, American politician, 22nd Governor of New Mexico (born 1929)

William Tebeau, American engineer, first African-American man to graduate from Oregon State University (born 1925)

Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (born 1939)

Lo Hsing Han, Burmese businessman, co-founded Asia World (born 1935)

Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (born 1962)

Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (born 1938)

Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (born 1926)

Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

Edmund Morgan, American historian and author (born 1916)

Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (born 1980)

Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (born 1924)

Markus Büchel, Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (born 1959)

Andrew Nori, Solomon lawyer and politician (born 1952)

Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (born 1954)

Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (born 1927)

Toshi Seeger, American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (born 1922)

Philip Caldwell, American businessman (born 1920)

Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (born 1929)

Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (born 1958)

Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (born 1922)

Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (born 1956)

Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (born 1922)

Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (born 1923)

Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

Amar Bose, American businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (born 1929)

Takako Takahashi, Japanese author (born 1932)

Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer (born 1920)

Leonard Garment, American lawyer and public servant, 14th White House Counsel (born 1924)

Henri Julien, French race car driver (born 1927)

Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (born 1982)

Ottavio Quattrocchi, Italian businessman (born 1938)

Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (born 1924)

Marc Simont, French-American author and illustrator (born 1915)

Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (born 1945)

Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (born 1944)

Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (born 1956)

Earl Gros, American football player (born 1940)

Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (born 1924)

Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (born 1986)

John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (born 1962)

Talia Castellano, American internet celebrity (born 1999)

Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (born 1920)

Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (born 1927)

Henri Alleg, English-French journalist and author (born 1921)

Vincenzo Cerami, Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1940)

David White, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1933)

Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (born 1931)

Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (born 1953)

Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist and businessman, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (born 1926)

Khurshed Alam Khan, Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Goa (born 1919)

Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (born 1920)

Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (born 1920)

Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1988)

Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, Indian martial artist (born 1981)

Det de Beus, Dutch field hockey player (born 1958)

Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, Colombian-French composer and educator (born 1971)

Fred Taylor, American football player and coach (born 1920)

Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (born 1921)

Dennis Farina, American policeman and actor (born 1944)

Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (born 1928)

Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (born 1924)

Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (born 1926)

Pauline Clarke, English author (born 1921)

Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (born 1944)

Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (born 1941)

Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (born 1938)

Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (born 1951)

Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (born 1929)

Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (born 1921)

Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)

Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (born 1925)

Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1939)

Walter De Maria, American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (born 1935)

William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (born 1922)

Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (born 1924)

Luther F. Cole, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)

Harley Flanders, American mathematician and academic (born 1925)

Sung Jae-gi, South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967)

George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1919)

Fernando Alonso, Cuban dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (born 1914)

Lindy Boggs, American politician and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (born 1916)

Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1925)

Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (born 1959)

Ilya Segalovich, Russian businessman, co-founded Yandex (born 1964)

Mustafa Adrisi, Ugandan general and politician, 3rd Vice President of Uganda (born 1922)

Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (born 1932)

Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer (born 1924)

William Scranton, American captain and politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1917)

Ersilio Tonini, Italian cardinal (born 1914)

Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (born 1986)

Peter Flanigan, American banker and civil servant (born 1923)

Tony Gaze, Australian soldier, pilot, and race car driver (born 1920)

Munir Hussain, Indian cricketer and sportscaster (born 1929)

Cecil Alexander, American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (born 1918)

Berthold Beitz, German businessman (born 1913)

Robert Neelly Bellah, American sociologist and author (born 1927)

Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (born 1922)

Michel Donnet, English-Belgian general and pilot (born 1917)

John Amis, English journalist and critic (born 1922)

Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (born 1932)

Babe Martin, American baseball player (born 1920)

Toby Saks, American cellist and educator (born 1942)

Wilford White, American football player (born 1928)

Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer and activist (born 1936)

Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (born 1942)

Alla Kushnir, Russian–Israeli chess player (born 1941)

John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)

Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)

Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)

Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (born 1940)

Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (born 1925)

Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)

Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1930)

Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (born 1922)

Sandy Woodward, English admiral (born 1932)

Ruth Asawa, American sculptor and educator (born 1926)

Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1966)

Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)

Roy Rubin, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)

May Song Vang, American activist (born 1951)

Rob Wyda, American commander and judge (born 1959)

Stan Lynde, American author and illustrator (born 1931)

Mava Lee Thomas, American baseball player (born 1929)

Jerry Wolman, American businessman (born 1927)

Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (born 1927)

Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (born 1964)

Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (born 1952)

Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (born 1923)

Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (born 1946)

Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (born 1961)

Karen Black, American actress (born 1939)

Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (born 1926)

Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (born 1918)

Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (born 1985)

Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (born 1922)

Harry Elliott, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)

Eduardo Falú, Argentinian guitarist and composer (born 1923)

William Lynch, Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1947)

William P. Clark Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor (born 1931)

Jonathan Dawson, Australian historian and academic (born 1941)

Eydie Gormé, American singer and actress (born 1928)

David C. Jones, American general (born 1921)

Jody Payne, American singer and guitarist (born 1936)

Amy Wallace, American author (born 1955)

Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (born 1943)

Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist and author (born 1919)

David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (born 1937)

Tereza de Arriaga, Portuguese painter (born 1915)

Hans-Ekkehard Bob, German soldier and pilot (born 1917)

Pauline Maier, American historian and academic (born 1938)

David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (born 1952)

Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, Russian ecologist and journalist (born 1930)

Lothar Bisky, German politician (born 1941)

Aaron Selber, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (born 1927)

Jean Vincent, French footballer and manager (born 1930)

Jack Germond, American journalist and author (born 1928)

Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (born 1944)

Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (born 1930)

Marich Man Singh Shrestha, Nepali politician, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1942)

August Schellenberg, Canadian actor (born 1936)

David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1918)

Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (born 1938)

Jack Harshman, American baseball player (born 1927)

John Hollander, American poet and critic (born 1929)

David Landes, Jewish-American historian and economist (born 1924)

Frank Martínez, American painter (born 1924)

Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (born 1912)

Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (born 1924)

Jean Kahn, French lawyer and activist (born 1929)

Albert Murray, American author and critic (born 1916)

Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (born 1923)

Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (born 1926)[citation needed]

Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (born 1936)

Narendra Dabholkar, Indian author and activist (born 1945)

Elmore Leonard, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (born 1925)

Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (born 1918)

Ted Post, American director and screenwriter (born 1918)

Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (born 1938)

Sid Bernstein, American record producer (born 1918)

C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1936)

Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (born 1929)

Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (born 1932)

Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (born 1921)

Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (born 1955)

William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (born 1925)

Charles Lisanby, American production designer and set director (born 1924)

Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (born 1951)

Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (born 1987)

Tatyana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist and economist (born 1927)

Gerry Baker, American soccer player and manager (born 1938)

Nílton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1931)

Julie Harris, American actress (born 1925)

Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1928)

Ciril Bergles, Slovene poet and translator (born 1934)

António Borges, Portuguese economist and banker (born 1949)

William Froug, American screenwriter and producer (born 1922)

Liu Fuzhi, Chinese academic and politician, 3rd Minister of Justice for China (born 1917)

Raghunath Panigrahi, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1932)

Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (born 1930)

Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (born 1922)

John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (born 1921)

Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (born 1954)

Jack Sinagra, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (born 1921)

Chen Liting, Chinese director and playwright (born 1910)

Bill Peach, Australian journalist (born 1935)

Dave Thomas, Welsh golfer and architect (born 1934)

John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)

Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)

Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)

Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)

Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)

Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)

Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (born 1934)

Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (born 1931)

Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (born 1931)

William C. Campbell, American golfer (born 1923)

Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (born 1933)

Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)

Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (born 1933)

Alan Carrington, English chemist and academic (born 1934)

David Frost, English journalist and game show host (born 1939)

Jimmy Greenhalgh, English footballer and manager (born 1923)

Jan Camiel Willems, Belgian mathematician and theorist (born 1939)

Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)

Tommy Morrison, American boxer and actor (born 1969)

Gordon Steege, Australian soldier (born 1917)

Margaret Mary Vojtko, American linguist and academic (born 1930)

Ken Wallis, English commander and pilot (born 1916)

Valérie Benguigui, French actress and director (born 1965)

Terry Clawson, English rugby player and coach (born 1940)

Ronald Coase, English-American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)

David Jacobs, English radio and television host (born 1926)

Frederik Pohl, American author and publisher (born 1919)

Paul Scoon, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (born 1935)

Ralph M. Holman, American lawyer and judge (born 1914)

Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Mexican-American journalist (born 1921)

José Ramón Larraz, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1929)

Janet Lembke, American author and scholar (born 1933)

Don Meineke, American basketball player (born 1930)

Lewis Morley, Hong Kong-Australian photographer (born 1925)

Michel Pagé, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1949)

Dick Raaymakers, Dutch composer and theorist (born 1930)

Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (born 1980)

Stanislav Stepashkin, Russian boxer (born 1940)

Casey Viator, American bodybuilder and journalist (born 1951)

Edwin Bideau, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)

Geoffrey Goodman, English pilot, journalist, and author (born 1922)

Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (born 1975)

Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)

Albert Allen Bartlett, American physicist and academic (born 1923)

Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician and diplomat, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (born 1928)

Frank Blevins, English-Australian politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (born 1939)

Ilja Hurník, Czech playwright and composer (born 1922)

Sunila Abeysekera, Sri Lankan scholar and activist (born 1952)

Alberto Bevilacqua, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1934)

Saul Landau, American journalist, director, and author (born 1936)

John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (born 1940)

Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1925)

Josef Němec, Czech boxer (born 1933)

Clay Shaw, American accountant and politician (born 1939)

Jack Vance, Canadian general (born 1933)

Francisco Chavez, Filipino lawyer and politician, Solicitor General of the Philippines (born 1947)

Albert Jacquard, French geneticist and biologist (born 1925)

Andrzej Trybulec, Polish mathematician and computer scientist (born 1941)

Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)

Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)

Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)

Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (born 1948)

Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (born 1929)

Rick Casares, American football player (born 1931)

Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (born 1950)

Maksym Bilyi, Ukrainian footballer (born 1989)

Osama El-Baz, Egyptian soldier and diplomat (born 1931)

Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (born 1941)

Habib Munzir Al-Musawa, Indonesian cleric and scholar (born 1973)

Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (born 1936)

Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1925)

Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)

Scott Adams, American football player (born 1966)

Ratiba El-Hefny, Egyptian soprano and director (born 1931)

Patsy Swayze, American dancer and choreographer (born 1927)

Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (born 1983)

Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (born 1943)

Veliyam Bharghavan, Indian politician (born 1928)

Lindsay Cooper, English composer, bassoon and oboe player (born 1951)

Arthur Lamothe, French-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Ken Norton, American boxer (born 1943)

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (born 1920)

Richard C. Sarafian, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Robert Barnard, English author and critic (born 1936)

John Reger, American football player (born 1931)

William Ungar, Polish-American author and philanthropist, founded the National Envelope Corporation (born 1913)

John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (born 1922)

Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (born 1927)

James B. Vaught, American general (born 1926)

Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (born 1957)

Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (born 1935)

Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Harl H. Haas, Jr., American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1932)

Walter Wallmann, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Hesse (born 1932)

Ko Wierenga, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1933)

Gary Brandner, American author and screenwriter (born 1930)

Jane Connell, American actress and singer (born 1925)

David H. Hubel, Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (born 1923)

Hans Erich Slany, German industrial designer, founded TEAMS Design (born 1926)

Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)

Abdel Hamid al-Sarraj, Syrian colonel and politician (born 1925)

Gil Dozier, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1934)

Ruth Patrick, American botanist and immunologist (born 1907)

Paul Dietzel, American football player and coach (born 1924)

Margaret Feilman, Australian architect and urban planner (born 1921)

Boris Karvasarsky, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and author (born 1931)

Anthony Lawrence, English-Hong Kong journalist and author (born 1912)

Sagadat Nurmagambetov, Kazakh general and politician (born 1924)

Paul Oliver, American football player (born 1984)

Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (born 1940)

Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (born 1945)

José Montoya, American poet and academic (born 1932)

Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (born 1915)

Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)

Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (born 1944)

Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (born 1922)

Mario Montez, Puerto Rican-American actor (born 1935)

Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor and director (born 1929)

Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian-American guitarist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)

Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Spanish sherry maker and conservationist (born 1923)

James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (born 1921)

Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (born 1932)

George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (born 1945)

Harold Agnew, American physicist and engineer (born 1921)

S. N. Goenka, Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation (born 1924)

Marcella Hazan, Italian cooking writer (born 1924)

Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (born 1942)

Arnold Burns, American lawyer, politician, and 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (born 1930)

Tom Clancy, American author (born 1947)

Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (born 1928)

Israel Gutman, Polish-Israeli historian and author (born 1923)

Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Norwegian physician, academic, and politician (born 1939)

Jim Rountree, American football player and coach (born 1936)

Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (born 1918)

Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (born 1978)

Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (born 1944)

Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (born 1922)

John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (born 1921)

Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (born 1917)

Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (born 1933)

Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (born 1958)

Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1911)

Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1917)

Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and academic (born 1916)

Carlo Lizzani, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Yakkun Sakurazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1976)

Ulysses Curtis, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)

Rift Fournier, American screenwriter and producer (born 1936)

Paul Rogers, English actor (born 1917)

Nico van Kampen, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1921)

Terry Burnham, American actress (born 1949)

Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)

Leandro Mendoza, Filipino police officer and politician, 36th Executive Secretary of the Philippines (born 1946)

Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1927)

Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (born 1948)

Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss archaeologist and philologist (born 1927)

Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (born 1939)

Solomon Lar, Nigerian educator and politician, 4th Governor of Plateau State (born 1933)

Srihari, Indian actor (born 1964)

Wilfried Martens, Belgian lawyer and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936)

Edmund Niziurski, Polish sociologist, lawyer, and author (born 1925)

Scott Carpenter, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (born 1925)

Jay Conrad Levinson, American author and educator (born 1933)

Sohei Miyashita, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (born 1927)

Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (born 1932)

María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (born 1980)

Erich Priebke, German captain (born 1913)

George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (born 1920)

Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (born 1951)

Hans Wilhelm Longva, Norwegian diplomat (born 1942)

Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (born 1910)

Martin Drewes, German soldier and pilot (born 1918)

Joe Meriweather, American basketball player and coach (born 1953)

Tommy Whittle, Scottish-English saxophonist (born 1926)

Takashi Yanase, Japanese poet and illustrator, created Anpanman (born 1919)

Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (born 1965)

Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (born 1936)

Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (born 1930)

Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (born 1954)

Frank Moore, American painter and poet (born 1946)

Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (born 1940)

Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)

Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (born 1938)

George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic (born 1932)

Ed Lauter, American actor (born 1938)

Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (born 1916)

Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (born 1925)

Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (born 1944)

Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (born 1926)

Terry Fogerty, English rugby player and coach (born 1944)

Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (born 1926)

Lou Scheimer, American animator, producer, and voice actor, co-founded the Filmation Company (born 1928)

Rene Simpson, Canadian-American tennis player (born 1966)

Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1929)

Bum Phillips, American football player and coach (born 1923)

Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1926)

Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (born 1930)

John Bergamo, American drummer and composer (born 1940)

Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and skier (born 1934)

Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (born 1940)

Mikihiko Renjō, Japanese author (born 1948)

Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist and composer (born 1920)

Jovanka Broz, Croatian-Serbian colonel (born 1924)

Don James, American football player and coach (born 1932)

Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)

Joginder Singh, Kenyan race car driver (born 1932)

Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer (born 1932)

Bud Adams, American businessman (born 1923)

Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (born 1924)

Rune T. Kidde, Danish author, poet, and illustrator (born 1957)

Colonel Robert Morris, American singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1954)

Major Owens, American librarian and politician (born 1936)

Tony Summers, Welsh swimmer (born 1924)

Oscar Yanes, Venezuelan journalist and author (born 1927)

Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (born 1933)

Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (born 1930)

William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)

James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (born 1925)

Wes Bialosuknia, American basketball player (born 1945)

Anthony Caro, English sculptor and academic (born 1924)

Antonia Bird, English director and producer (born 1951)

Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (born 1993)

Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (born 1934)

Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (born 1920)

Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1934)

Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (born 1924)

Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (born 1930)

Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)

Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (born 1930)

Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (born 1942)

Ritva Arvelo, Finnish actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (born 1921)

Doug Ireland, American journalist and activist (born 1946)

Al Johnson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)

Andries Maseko, South African footballer (born 1955)

Gabriel of Komana (born 1946)

Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (born 1945)

Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)

Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1928)

Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)

Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1940)

Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (born 1954)

Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1920)

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (born 1927)

Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (born 1949)

Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (born 1929)

Jean Rénald Clérismé, Haitian priest and politician, Foreign Minister of Haiti (born 1937)

Sherman Halsey, American director and producer (born 1957)

John Spence, American soldier and engineer (born 1918)

Graham Stark, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Bill Currie, American baseball player (born 1928)

Chris Chase (aka Irene Kane), American actress and author (born 1924)

Gérard de Villiers, French journalist and author (born 1929)

Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (born 1922)

Johnny Kucks, American baseball player (born 1933)

Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1928)

Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

John Y. McCollister, American lieutenant and politician (born 1921)

Piet Rietveld, Dutch economist and academic (born 1952)

Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (born 1939)

Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (born 1956)

Clifford Nass, American author and academic (born 1958)

Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (born 1919)

Gerard Cieślik, Polish footballer and manager (born 1927)

John D. Hawk, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1924)

Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (born 1929)

Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (born 1928)

Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (born 1932)

Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (born 1934)

Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (born 1919)

Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (born 1948)

Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (born 1959)

Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1930)

Tarla Dalal, Indian chef and author (born 1936)

Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (born 1912)

John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (born 1927)

Ian Davies, Australian basketball player and coach (born 1956)

Ron Dellow, English footballer and manager (born 1914)

Joey Manley, American publisher, founded Modern Tales (born 1965)

Jack Mitchell, American photographer and author (born 1925)

Manfred Rommel, German lawyer and politician (born 1928)

William C. Davidon, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1927)

Penn Kimball, American journalist and academic (born 1915)

Arnold Rosner, American composer (born 1945)

Chiyoko Shimakura, Japanese singer and actress (born 1938)

Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, Indian journalist and actor (born 1957)

Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (born 1954)

Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (born 1947)

Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (born 1920)

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (born 1936)

Steve Prescott, English rugby player (born 1973)

Vijaydan Detha, Indian author (born 1926)

John Grant, Australian neurosurgeon (born 1922)

John Matchefts, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)

Giorgio Orelli, Swiss poet and translator (born 1921)

John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (born 1938)

Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (born 1917)

Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (born 1927)

John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (born 1929)

Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1931)

Steve Rexe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1947)

Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer and academic (born 1926)

Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1944)

John Tavener, English composer and educator (born 1944)

Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1943)

Hans-Jürgen Heise, German author and poet (born 1930)

Chieko Aioi, Japanese actress and voice actress (born 1934)

Sudhir Bhat, Indian producer and manager (born 1951)

Hari Krishna Devsare, Indian journalist and author (born 1938)

Bennett Masinga, South African footballer (born 1965)

Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (born 1929)

Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)

Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (born 1930)

Robert Conley, American journalist (born 1928)

Billy Hardwick, American bowler (born 1941)

Zeke Bella, American baseball player (born 1930)

Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)

Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (born 1935)

Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (born 1993)

Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (born 1925)

Thomas Howard, American football player (born 1983)

S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (born 1929)

Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (born 1947)

Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (born 1953)

Babe Birrer, American baseball player (born 1928)

Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (born 1921)

Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (born 1939)

Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (born 1915)

Sylvia Browne, American author (born 1936)

Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (born 1927)

John Egerton, American journalist and author (born 1935)

Fred Kavli, Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist, founded The Kavli Foundation (born 1927)

Dimitri Mihalas, American astronomer and author (born 1939)

Vern Mikkelsen, American basketball player and coach (born 1928)

Bernard Parmegiani, French composer (born 1927)

Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (born 1926)

Maurice Vachon, Canadian-American wrestler (born 1929)

Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)

Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)

Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)

Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1932)

Costanzo Preve, Italian philosopher and theorist (born 1943)

Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (born 1926)

Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (born 1980)

Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1935)

June Keithley, Filipino actress and journalist (born 1947)

Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (born 1925)

Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (born 1927)

Lou Brissie, American baseball player (born 1924)

Ricardo Fort, Argentinian businessman (born 1968)

Bill Foulkes, English footballer and manager (born 1932)

Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (born 1921)

Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician (born 1934)

Al Plastino, American author and illustrator (born 1921)

Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1939)

Jane Kean, American actress and singer (born 1923)

Saul Leiter, American photographer and painter (born 1923)

Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (born 1936)

Lewis Collins, English-American actor (born 1946)

Herbert F. DeSimone, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island (born 1929)

Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (born 1941)

Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (born 1925)

Manuel F. Segura, Filipino colonel (born 1919)

Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (born 1925)

Mitja Ribičič, Italian-Slovenian soldier and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1919)

Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1923)

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Austrian-American poet and songwriter (born 1920)

Oliver Cheatham, American singer-songwriter (born 1948)

Colin Eglin, South African soldier and politician (born 1925)

Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Russian-Polish poet and activist (born 1936)

Paul Crouch, American broadcaster, co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1934)

Richard Coughlan, English drummer (born 1947)

Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (born 1925)

Edward Heffron, American soldier (born 1923)

Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (born 1942)

William Allain, American soldier and politician, 58th Governor of Mississippi (born 1928)

Jean-Claude Beton, Algerian-French engineer and businessman, founded Orangina (born 1925)

Marcelo Déda, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1960)

Junior Murvin, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1946)

Joana Raspall i Juanola, Spanish author and poet (born 1913)

Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (born 1917)

William B. Edmondson, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (born 1927)

Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (born 1939)

Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (born 1926)

M. K. Turk, American basketball player and coach (born 1942)

Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (born 1934)

John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and academic (born 1931)

Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1949)

Hristu Cândroveanu, Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (born 1928)

John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1909)

Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (born 1930)

Eleanor Parker, American actress (born 1922)

John Wilbur, American football player (born 1943)

Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (born 1920)

Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (born 1929)

Javier Jáuregui (boxer), Mexican boxer (born 1973)

Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1942)

Tom Laughlin, American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator, and activist (born 1931)

Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (born 1948)

Audrey Totter, American actress (born 1917)

Janet Dailey, American author (born 1944)

C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1940)

Dennis Lindley, English statistician and academic (born 1923)

Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (born 1932)

George Rodrigue, American painter (born 1944)

Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (born 1921)

Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (born 1917)

Dyron Nix, American basketball player (born 1967)

James Flint, English commander (born 1913)

Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1926)

Marta Russell, American journalist, author, and activist (born 1951)

Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer (born 1929)

Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (born 1926)

Richard Heffner, American historian and television host (born 1925)

Tetsurō Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1950)

Janet Rowley, American geneticist and biologist (born 1925)

Conny van Rietschoten, Dutch sailor (born 1926)

Ken Hutcherson, American football player (born 1952)

Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (born 1949)

Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (born 1916)

Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (born 1936)

Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (born 1981)

Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (born 1930)

Edgar Bronfman Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)

John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (born 1922)

Diomedes Díaz, Colombian singer-songwriter (born 1956)

Hans Hækkerup, Danish lawyer and politician (born 1945)

Oscar Peer, Swiss author, playwright, and philologist (born 1928)

Chryssa, Greek-American sculptor (born 1933)

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (born 1919)

Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (born 1920)

Ricky Lawson, American drummer and composer (born 1954)

G. S. Shivarudrappa, Indian poet and educator (born 1926)

Robert W. Wilson, American philanthropist and art collector (born 1928)

Frédéric Back, German-Canadian director, animator, and screenwriter (born 1924)

Ian Barbour, Chinese-American author and scholar (born 1923)

John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (born 1938)

Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (born 1946)

Anthony J. Bryant, American historian and author (born 1961)

David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic (born 1930)

Wayne Harrison, English footballer (born 1967)

Mike Hegan, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1942)

Lola Lange, Canadian rural feminist and appointee to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (born 1922)

Paul Blair, American baseball player and coach (born 1944)

Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (born 1912)

Richard Ambler, English-Scottish biologist and academic (born 1933)

Mohamad Chatah, Lebanese economist and politician, Lebanese Minister of Finance (born 1951)

Gianna D'Angelo, American soprano and educator (born 1929)

John Matheson, Canadian colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1917)

Farooq Sheikh, Indian actor, philanthropist and a popular television presenter (born 1948)

Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (born 1927)

Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (born 1913)

Andrew Jacobs, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1932)

Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (born 1919)

Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (born 1924)

Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (born 1969)

Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (born 1929)

José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1934)

Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)

Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)

Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (born 1933)

James Avery, American actor (born 1945)

Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (born 1953)

Bob Grant, American radio host (born 1929)

Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (born 1925)