What Happened in 2019 — Events, Births & Deaths

Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.

A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, kills five teenagers through carbon monoxide poisoning.

Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so.

A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.

A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people.

Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19.

Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230.

An oil pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.

A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.

Abdullah of Pahang is sworn in as the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.

The country known as the Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa agreement, settling a long-standing naming dispute with Greece.

Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.

Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.

Indian Air Force fighter-jets target Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camps in Balakot, Pakistan.

Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.

In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.

The Suzano school shooting kills 10 people.

Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.

Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings, which remains the deadliest terror attack in New Zealand history.

Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.

Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.

The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is sworn in as acting president of Kazakhstan, following the resignation of long-time president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others.

The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.

Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.

The Kazakh capital of Astana is renamed to Nur-Sultan.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces capture the town of Baghuz in Eastern Syria, declaring military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting, although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across Syria and Iraq.

Pope Francis visits Morocco.

The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.

A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.

Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.

The April 2019 Hpakant jade mine collapse in Myanmar kills four miners and two rescuers, with at least 50 others missing and presumed dead.

Naxalite attack in Gadchiroli district of India: Sixteen army soldiers, including a driver, killed in an IED blast. Naxals targeted an anti-Naxal operations team.

Naruhito ascends to the throne of Japan succeeding his father Akihito, beginning the Reiwa period.

The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural series champion.

British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.

United States presidential election: Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign.

The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.

Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).

Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.

A shooting occurs inside a municipal building at Virginia Beach, Virginia, leaving 13 people dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.

Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan.

Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

Iran's Air Defense Forces shoot down an American surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid rising tensions between the two countries.

Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.

A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others.

Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Yuen Long attack or "721 incident" in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians returning from protests while police failed to take action.

Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover.

Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.

National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.

The 2019 Altamira prison riot between rival Brazilian drug gangs leaves 62 dead.

Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.

The revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories (Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh).

An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.

Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.

Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.

A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.

One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5 km2).

A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.

Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.

The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.

A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

Twenty people die on the first of two days of rioting in Papua and West Papua over an alleged racist incident.

Over two million people participated in worldwide strikes to protest climate change across 2,400 locations worldwide.

Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.

Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.

A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.

Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.

The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing three workers and injuring 30 others.

Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new women's world record with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.

Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.

The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.

NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.

Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open battles, with attacks reported at nearly all of the city's 164 Metro stations. President Sebastián Piñera later announces a 15-day state of emergency in the capital.

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government.

Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.

President of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his government resign after 19 days of civil protests and a recommendation from the military.

A mass shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in three deaths, including that of the perpetrator, and three injuries.

The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.

Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its "unbreakable" windows shatter during demonstration.

The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes western Albania leaving at least 52 people dead and over 1,000 injured. This was the world's deadliest earthquake of 2019, and the deadliest to strike the country in 99 years.

Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.

The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan.

First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.

A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.

The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.

The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence.

The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.

The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.

Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.

Bek Air Flight 2100 crashes during takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, killing 13.

A truck bomb is detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 85 people and injuring over 140 more. The militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.

The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prince Archie of Sussex

Paul Neville, Australian politician (born 1940)

Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (born 1952)

George, last known Achatinella apexfulva (born c. 2004)

Daryl Dragon, American musician (born 1942)

Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (born 1942)

Julia Grant, British transgender activist (born 1954)

Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (born 1942)

Herb Kelleher, American businessman, co-founder of Southwest Airlines (born 1931)

Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1927)

Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (born 1928)

Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1937)

José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (born 1923)

Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (born 1942)

W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (born 1932)

Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (born 1917)

Verna Bloom, American actress (born 1938)

Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (born 1944)

Ross Lowell, American inventor, photographer & author (born 1926)

Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (born 1929)

Phil Masinga, South African footballer (born 1969)

Carol Channing, American actress (born 1921)

Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef (born 1936)

John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1929)

Lorna Doom, American musician (born 1958)

Chris Wilson, Australian musician (born 1956)

S. Balakrishnan, Malayalam movie composer (born 1948)

John Coughlin, American figure skater (born 1985)

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (born 1938)

Kaye Ballard, American actress (born 1925)

Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (born 1933)

Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (born 1990)

Harris Wofford, American politician, author and civil rights activist (born 1926)

Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (born 1990)

Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean Afro Jazz musician (born 1952)

Rosemary Bryant Mariner, American United States Naval Aviator (born 1953)

Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, German socialite (born 1958)

Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (born 1947)

George Fernandes, Indian politician (born 1930)

James Ingram, American musician (born 1952)

Dick Miller, American actor (born 1928)

Jeremy Hardy, English comedian, radio host and panelist (born 1961)

Clive Swift, English actor (born 1936)

Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (born 1959)

Julie Adams, American actress (born 1926)

Kristoff St. John, American actor (born 1966)

Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (born 1963)

Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (born 1927)

Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (born 1924)

John Dingell, American politician (born 1926)

Albert Finney, English actor (born 1936)

Jan Olszewski, Polish politician, 3rd Prime Minister (born 1930)

Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1935)

Carmen Argenziano, American actor (born 1943)

Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (born 1944)

Gordon Banks, English footballer (born 1937)

Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (born 1922)

Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler and commentator (born 1942)

Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)

Andrea Levy, English author (born 1956)

Lee Radziwill, American socialite (born 1933)

Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (born 1941)

Alessandro Mendini, Italian designer and architect (born 1931)

Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (born 1933)

Stanley Donen, American film director (born 1924)

Peter Tork, American musician and actor (born 1942)

Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (born 1970)

Morgan Woodward, American actor (born 1925)

Katherine Helmond, American actress (born 1929)

France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (born 1935)

André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. (born 1929)

Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (born 1942)

Mike Oliver, British sociologist, disability rights activist (born 1945)

Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and composer (born 1930)

Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (born 1969)

Luke Perry, American actor (born 1966)

Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (born 1930)

Marshall Brodien, American actor (born 1934)

Cedrick Hardman, American football player and actor (born 1948)

Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (born 1962)

Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (born 1952)

Haig Young, Canadian politician (born 1928)

Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (born 1948)

Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)

William Whitfield, British architect (born 1920)

Mary Warnock, English philosopher and writer (born 1924)

Victor Hochhauser CBE, British music promoter (born 1923)

Gonzalo Portocarrero, Peruvian sociologist (born 1949)

Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (born 1949)

Barrie Hole, Welsh footballer (born 1942)

Agnès Varda, French film director (born 1928)

Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (born 1985)

Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (born 1948)

Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

Wowaka, Japanese musician (born 1987)

Michael O'Donnell, British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster (born 1928)

Seymour Cassel, American actor (born 1935)

Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American art curator (born 1926)

Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (born 1926)

Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (born 1935)

Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949)

Gwen Marston, American quilter and writer (born 1936)

Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (born 1990)

Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (born 1968)

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, American soprano singer and presenter (born 1983)

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1921)

John Havlicek, American basketball player (born 1940)

Richard Lugar, American politician (born 1932)

John Singleton, American film director (born 1968)

Josef Šural, Czech footballer (born 1990)

Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (born 1944)

Alia Abdulnoor, Emirati imprisoned woman (born 1977)

Sprent Dabwido, President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (born 1972)

Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (born 1943)

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (born 1951)

Peggy Lipton, American actress, model, and singer (born 1946)

Thomas Silverstein, American murderer (born 1952)

Doris Day, American singer and actress (born 1922)

Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1933)

Tim Conway, American actor, writer, and comedian (born 1933)

Grumpy Cat, American cat and internet meme celebrity (born 2012)

Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)

Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)

I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)

Herman Wouk, American author (born 1915)

Austin Eubanks, American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)

Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (born 1949)

Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (born 1925)

Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (born 1971)

Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923)

Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (born 1926)

Prem Tinsulanonda, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)

Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)

Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)

Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician, 6th First Lady of Indonesia. (born 1952)

Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (born 1971)

Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966)

Billy McKee, Irish republican and founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1921)

Sylvia Miles, American actress (born 1924)

Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (born 1923)

Gloria Vanderbilt, American artist, author actress, fashion designer, heiress and socialite (born 1924)

Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian professor and politician, first elected president of Egypt after Egyptian revolution (born 1951)

Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (born 1990)

Eurig Wyn, Welsh politician (born 1944)

Beth Chapman, American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (born 1967)

Emily Stonington, American politician from Montana (born 1947)

Florijana Ismaili, Swiss footballer (born 1995)

Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (born 1929)

Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive (born 1924)

Cameron Boyce, American actor (born 1999)

João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (born 1931)

William E. Dannemeyer, American politician (born 1929)

Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (born 1930)

Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (born 1937)

Rip Torn, American actor (born 1931)

Freddie Jones, English actor (born 1927)

Denise Nickerson, American former child actress (born 1957)

Emily Hartridge, English YouTuber and television presenter (born 1984)

John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1920)

Marie Sophie Hingst, German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors

Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1944)

Beji Caid Essebsi, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1926)

Russi Taylor, American voice actress (born 1944)

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate (born 1936)

Harold Prince, Broadway producer and director, who received more Tony awards than anyone else in history (born 1928)

Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (born 1926)

Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).

David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (born 1967)

Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and child sex trafficker (born 1953)

Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1931)

DJ Arafat, Ivorian DJ and singer (born 1986)

Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1935)

Peter Fonda, American actor, director, and screenwriter. (born 1940)

Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (born 1933)

Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (born 1948)

Ifeanyi Chiejine, Nigerian footballer (born 1983)

Celso Piña, Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (born 1953)

Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business magnate and engineer (born 1937)

Valerie Harper, American actress and writer (born 1939)

Anthoine Hubert, French race car driver (born 1996)

Alec Holowka, Canadian game developer (born 1983)

Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (born 1940)

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)

S. Rajasekar, Indian cinematographer, film director, and actor (born 1957)

B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (born 1936)

ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)

Elsie Vartanian, American politician and director of the United States Women's Bureau (born 1930)

Eddie Money, American musician (born 1949)

Ric Ocasek, American musician (born 1944)

H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)

Cokie Roberts, American journalist and bestselling author (born 1943)

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Tunisia (born 1936)

Jacques Chirac, French politician, President of France (born 1932)

José José, Mexican musician and singer (born 1948)

Martin Bernheimer, German-American music critic (born 1936)

Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (born 1967)

Karel Gott, Czech singer (born 1939)

Ginger Baker, English drummer (born 1939)

Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (born 1936)

Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (born 1931)

Alexei Leonov, Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and first human to conduct a spacewalk (born 1934)

Harold Bloom, American literary critic (born 1930)

Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (born 1994)

Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (born 1951)

Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (born 1952)

Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist (born 1962)

Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (born 1937)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)

John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (born 1942)

Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (born 1932)

Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (born 1934)

Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (born 1930)

John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (born 1947)

Terry O'Neill, British photographer (born 1938)

Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (born 1982)

Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (born 1923)

Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)

Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1918)

Paula Tilbrook, English actress (born 1930)

Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and war historian (born 1920)

Robert Walker, American actor (born 1940)

Ron Saunders, English football player and manager (born 1932)

René Auberjonois, American actor (born 1940)

Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (born 1998)

Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and actor (born 1933)

Philip McKeon, American actor (born 1964)

Gershon Kingsley, American composer and musician (born 1922)

Emily Mason, American painter (born 1932)

Danny Aiello, American actor (born 1933)

Chuy Bravo, Mexican-American comedian and actor (born 1956)

Andrew Clennel Palmer, British engineer (born 1938)

Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher and author (born 1931)

Ari Behn, Norwegian writer (born 1972)

Maria Creveling, American League of Legends player (born 1995)

Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (born 1934)

Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (born 1944)