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Day of the 12 months

July 21 is the 202nd day of the 12 months (203rd in leap years) within the Gregorian calendar; 163 days stay till the top of the 12 months.

Pre-1600[edit]

1601–1900[edit]

• 1645 – Qing dynasty regent Dorgon points an edict ordering all Han Chinese language males to shave their brow and braid the remainder of their hair right into a queue equivalent to these of the Manchus.
• 1656 – The Raid on Málaga takes place in the course of the Anglo-Spanish Struggle.
• 1674 – A Dutch assault on the French island of Martinique is repulsed towards all odds.^[2]
• 1718 – The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
• 1774 – Russo-Turkish Struggle (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire signal the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the conflict.
• 1798 – French marketing campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon’s forces defeat an Ottoman–Mamluk military close to Cairo within the Battle of the Pyramids.
• 1831 – Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
• 1861 – American Civil Struggle: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the primary main battle of the conflict begins and ends in a victory for the Accomplice military.
• 1865 – Out there sq. of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Invoice Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what’s thought to be the primary western showdown.
• 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Youthful Gang pull off the primary profitable prepare theft within the American Outdated West.
• 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad staff and the deaths of 9 rail staff by the hands of the Maryland militia, staff in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that’s met with an assault by the state militia.

1901–current[edit]

• 1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, turns into the primary man to interrupt the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
• 1907 – The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 individuals.
• 1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Categorical crashes into the Illinois Belief and Financial savings Constructing in Chicago, killing 12 individuals.
• 1920 – The “Belfast Pogrom” begins two years of violence with the expulsion of 1000’s of Belfast shipyard, manufacturing facility and linen mill staff from their jobs.^[3]
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, highschool biology trainer John T. Scopes is discovered responsible of educating human evolution at school and fined $100.
• 1925 – Malcolm Campbell turns into the primary man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP constructed by Sunbeam at a two-way common pace of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).^[4]
• 1936 – Spanish Civil Struggle: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economic system in Catalonia.^[5]
• 1944 – World Struggle II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, beginning a battle that can finish on August 10.
• 1944 – World Struggle II: Claus von Stauffenberg and 4 fellow conspirators are executed for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
• 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 1952 – The 7.3 M_w  Kern County earthquake strikes Southern California with a most Mercalli depth of XI (Excessive), killing 12 and injuring tons of.
• 1954 – First Indochina Struggle: The Geneva Convention partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
• 1959 – NS Savannah, the primary nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower‘s “Atoms for Peace” initiative.
• 1959 – Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Inexperienced turns into the primary African-American to play for the Boston Purple Sox, the final group to combine. He got here in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
• 1960 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, changing into the world’s first feminine head of presidency
• 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 turns into the second American to enter area (in a suborbital mission).
• 1961 – Alaska Airways Flight 779 crashes close to Shemya Air Drive Base in Shemya, Alaska killing six.^[6]
• 1964 – A sequence of racial riots escape in Singapore. Within the subsequent six weeks, 23 die with 454 others injured.^[7]
• 1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong turns into the first individual to stroll on the Moon, adopted 19 minutes later by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
• 1970 – After 11 years of building, the Aswan Excessive Dam in Egypt is accomplished.
• 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Eire, United Kingdom within the area of 80 minutes, killing 9 and injuring 130.
• 1973 – In Lillehammer, Norway, Mossad brokers kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was concerned within the 1972 Munich Olympics Bloodbath.
• 1976 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Eire, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• 1977 – The beginning of the four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian Struggle.
• 1979 – Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, turns into the primary Native American to have a star commemorated within the Hollywood Stroll of Fame.^[8]
• 1983 – The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
• 1990 – Taiwan’s army police forces mainland Chinese language unlawful immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, inflicting 25 individuals to die from suffocation.^[9]
• 1995 – Third Taiwan Strait Disaster: The Individuals’s Liberation Military begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
• 2001 – On the conclusion of a fireworks show on Okura Seashore in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 individuals are killed and greater than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the seashore to JR Asagiri Station turns into overcrowded and other people leaving the occasion fall down in a domino impact.
• 2005 – 4 tried bomb assaults by Islamist extremists disrupt a part of London‘s public transport system.
• 2008 – Ram Baran Yadav is asserted the primary President of Nepal.
• 2010 – President Barack Obama indicators the Dodd–Frank Wall Road Reform and Client Safety Act.^[10]
• 2011 – NASA‘s House Shuttle program ends with the touchdown of House Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA‘s Kennedy House Heart.^[11]
• 2012 – Erden Eruç completes the primary solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
• 2019 – Yuen Lengthy assault or “721 incident” in Hong Kong. Triad members indiscriminately beat civilians coming back from protests whereas police didn’t take motion.^[12]

Pre-1600[edit]

1601–1900[edit]

• 1616 – Anna de’ Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676)
• 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)
• 1648 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish normal (d. 1689)
• 1654 – Pedro Calungsod, Filipino catechist and sacristan; later canonized (d. 1672)
• 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1721)
• 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of Nice Britain (d. 1768)^[14]
• 1710 – Paul Möhring, German doctor, botanist, and zoologist (d. 1792)
• 1783 – Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French normal (d. 1853)
• 1808 – Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian, educational, and politician (d. 1864)
• 1810 – Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist (d. 1878)
• 1811 – Robert Mackenzie, Scottish-Australian politician, third Premier of Queensland (d. 1873)
• 1816 – Paul Reuter, German-English journalist, based Reuters (d. 1899)
• 1858 – Maria Christina of Austria (d. 1929)
• 1858 – Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925)
• 1858 – Alfred Henry O’Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (d. 1941)
• 1863 – C. Aubrey Smith, English-American cricketer and actor (d. 1948)
• 1866 – Carlos Schwabe, Swiss Symbolist painter and printmaker (d. 1926)
• 1870 – Emil Orlík, Czech painter, etcher, and lithographer (d. 1932)
• 1875 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby participant and tug of conflict competitor (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak astronomer, normal, and politician (d. 1919)
• 1882 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian writer and illustrator (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
• 1891 – Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (d. 1969)
• 1893 – Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947)
• 1896 – Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, doctor and nutritionist (d. 1996)
• 1898 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
• 1899 – Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)^[15]
• 1899 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, quick story author, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1900 – Isadora Bennett, American theatre supervisor and fashionable dance publicity agent (d. 1980)

1901–current[edit]

• 1903 – Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)
• 1903 – Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman (d. 2010)
• 1908 – Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer and theorist (d. 1980)
• 1911 – Umashankar Joshi, Indian writer, poet, and scholar (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1977)
• 1917 – Alan B. Gold, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Fixed Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Isaac Stern, Russian-American violinist and conductor (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Jean Daniel, Algerian-French-Jewish journalist and writer (d. 2020)
• 1921 – James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and writer (d. 2000)
• 1921 – John Horsley, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma (d. 2020)
• 1922 – Kay Starr, American singer (d. 2016)
• 1922 – Mollie Sugden, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian-American chemist and educational, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1923 – Queenie Watts, English actress and singer (d. 1980)
• 1924 – Don Knotts, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Johnny Peirson, Canadian hockey participant (d. 2021)
• 1926 – Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1926 – Norman Jewison, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1926 – Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani normal and politician, seventh Governor of Balochistan (d. 2022)
• 1926 – Invoice Pertwee, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1929 – Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Anand Bakshi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Helen Merrill, American singer
• 1931 – Sonny Clark, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1931 – Plas Johnson, American saxophonist
• 1931 – Leon Schidlowsky, Chilean-Israeli painter and composer
• 1932 – Kaye Stevens, American singer and actress (d. 2011)
• 1933 – John Gardner, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1982)
• 1934 – Chandu Borde, Indian cricketer and supervisor
• 1934 – Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, and writer (d. 2019)
• 1935 – Norbert Blüm, German businessman and politician (d. 2020)
• 1935 – Moe Drabowsky, Polish-American baseball participant and coach (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Protection (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1938 – Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Legal professional Basic (d. 2016)
• 1939 – Jamey Aebersold, American saxophonist and educator
• 1939 – Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and supervisor (d. 2015)
• 1939 – John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, twenty third United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1942 – Mallikarjun Kharge, Indian politician, 98th President of the Indian Nationwide Congress^[16]
• 1943 – Fritz Glatz, Austrian race automobile driver (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Henry McCullough, Northern Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
• 1943 – Robert Shrum, American writer and political advisor^[17]
• 1944 – John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, third President of Ghana (d. 2012)
• 1944 – Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian writer and educational (d. 2017)
• 1944 – Paul Wellstone, American educational and politician (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Wendy Cope, English poet, critic, and educator
• 1945 – Geoff Dymock, Australian cricketer
• 1945 – Barry Richards, South African cricketer
• 1946 – Ken Starr, American lawyer and choose, thirty ninth Solicitor Basic of america
• 1946 – Timothy Harris, American writer, screenwriter and producer
• 1947 – Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricketer and politician (d. 2020)
• 1948 – Artwork Hindle, Canadian actor and director
• 1948 – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
• 1949 – Christina Hart, American playwright and actress
• 1949 – Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer and coach
• 1950 – Susan Kramer, Baroness Kramer, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
• 1951 – Richard Gozney, English politician and diplomat, thirtieth Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 139th Governor of Bermuda
• 1951 – Robin Williams, American actor and comic (d. 2014)
• 1952 – John Barrasso, American doctor and politician
• 1952 – Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian economist
• 1953 – Eric Bazilian, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer
• 1953 – Jeff Fatt, Australian keyboard participant and actor
• 1953 – Bernie Fraser, New Zealand rugby participant
• 1953 – Brian Talbot, English footballer and supervisor
• 1955 – Howie Epstein, American bass participant, songwriter, and producer (d. 2003)
• 1955 – Dannel Malloy, American lawyer and politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut
• 1955 – Taco, Indonesian-b. Dutch singer and entertainer
• 1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Michael Connelly, American writer
• 1957 – Stefan Löfven, Swedish commerce union chief and politician, thirty third Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comic, actor, and producer
• 1958 – Dave Henderson, American baseball participant and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1959 – Gene Miles, Australian rugby league participant and sportscaster
• 1959 – Reha Muhtar, Turkish journalist
• 1959 – Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league participant, coach, and sportscaster
• 1960 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
• 1960 – Veselin Matić, Serbian basketball participant and coach
• 1960 – Fritz Walter, German footballer
• 1961 – Morris Iemma, Australian politician, fortieth Premier of New South Wales
• 1961 – Jim Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, English businessman
• 1963 – Kevin Poole, English footballer and supervisor
• 1963 – Large Silva, Brazilian basketball participant, combined martial artist, and wrestler
• 1964 – Steve Collins, Irish boxer and actor
• 1964 – Ross Kemp, English actor and producer
• 1964 – Jens Weißflog, German ski jumper and journalist
• 1965 – Guðni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer and lawyer
• 1965 – Mike Bordick, American baseball participant, coach, and sportscaster
• 1966 – Arija Bareikis, American actress
• 1966 – Sarah Waters, Welsh writer^[18]
• 1968 – Brandi Chastain, American soccer participant and sportscaster
• 1968 – Aditya Srivastava, Indian actor
• 1968 – Lyle Odelein, Canadian ice hockey participant
• 1969 – Godfrey, American comic and actor
• 1969 – Klaus Graf, German race automobile driver
• 1969 – Emerson Hart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1969 – Isabell Werth, German equestrian
• 1970 – Michael Fitzpatrick, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Emmanuel Bangué, French lengthy jumper
• 1971 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer
• 1971 – Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and supervisor (d. 2014)
• 1972 – Korey Cooper, American singer and guitarist
• 1972 – Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan marathon runner^[19]
• 1974 – Geoff Jenkins, American baseball participant and coach
• 1974 – René Reinumägi, Estonian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Christopher Barzak, American writer and educator
• 1975 – David Dastmalchian, American actor^[20]
• 1975 – Cara Dillon, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1975 – Mike Sellers, American soccer participant
• 1976 – Jalmari Helander, Finnish movie director and screenwriter^[21]
• 1976 – Jaime Murray, English actress
• 1977 – Paul Casey, English golfer
• 1978 – Justin Bartha, American actor
• 1978 – Anderson da Silva Gibin, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Josh Hartnett, American actor
• 1978 – Julian Huppert, English educational and politician
• 1978 – Damian Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer
• 1978 – Gary Teale, Scottish footballer
• 1979 – David Carr, American soccer participant
• 1979 – Tamika Catchings, American basketball participant
• 1979 – Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian footballer
• 1980 – Justin Griffith, American soccer participant
• 1980 – Sandra Laoura, French skier
• 1980 – CC Sabathia, American baseball participant
• 1980 – Yvonne Sampson, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1981 – Paloma Religion, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1981 – Anabelle Langlois, Canadian determine skater
• 1981 – Joaquín, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Romeo Santos, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Stefan Schumacher, German bicycle owner^[22]
• 1982 – Jason Cram, Australian swimmer
• 1982 – Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress (d. 2017)
• 1984 – Jurrick Juliana, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Liam Ridgewell, English footballer
• 1985 – Mati Lember, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Von Wafer, American basketball participant
• 1986 – Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1986 – Rebecca Ferguson, American-English singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Jason Thompson, American basketball participant
• 1987 – Bilel Mohsni, French footballer
• 1987 – Jesús Zavala, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – KB, American rapper
• 1988 – DeAndre Jordan, American basketball participant^[23]
• 1988 – Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (d. 2016)
• 1989 – Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1989 – Juno Temple, English actress
• 1990 – Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 – Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1990 – Erislandy Savón, Cuban beginner heavyweight boxer
• 1990 – Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1991 – Sara Sampaio, Portuguese mannequin
• 1992 – Rachael Flatt, American determine skater^[24]
• 1996 – Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer^[25]
• 1998 – Marie Bouzkova, Czech tennis participant^[26]
• 2000 – Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer^[27]

Pre-1600[edit]

• 658 – Okay’an II, Mayan ruler (b. 588)
• 710 – Li Guo’er, princess of the Tang dynasty
• 710 – Wei, empress of the Tang Dynasty
• 710 – Shangguan Wan’er, Chinese language poet (b. 664)
• 987 – Geoffrey I, Depend of Anjou
• 1259 – Gojong of Goryeo
• 1403 – Henry Percy, English soldier (b. 1364)
• 1403 – Sir Walter Blount, English soldier, standard-bearer of Henry IV
• 1403 – Edmund Stafford, fifth Earl of Stafford, English soldier
• 1425 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1350)
• 1552 – Antonio de Mendoza, Spanish politician, 1st Viceroy of New Spain (b. 1495)

1601–1900[edit]

• 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Eire (b. 1610)
• 1793 – Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
• 1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1759)^[28]
• 1798 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Depend of Clerfayt, Austrian discipline marshal (b. 1733)
• 1798 – Anthony Perry, Irish insurgent chief (b. ca. 1760)
• 1868 – William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (b. 1789)
• 1878 – Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
• 1880 – Hiram Walden, American normal and politician (b. 1800)
• 1889 – Nelson Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1833)

1901–current[edit]

• 1920 – Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (b. 1864)^[29]
• 1928 – Ellen Terry, English actress (b. 1847)^[30]
• 1932 – Invoice Gleason, American baseball participant (b. 1858)
• 1938 – Owen Wister, American lawyer and writer (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (b. 1872)
• 1943 – Charley Paddock, American runner and actor (b. 1900)
• 1943 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish artwork critic (b. 1870)
• 1944 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier (b. 1907)
• 1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, forty fifth President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1952 – Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. (b. 1856)^[31]
• 1966 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and thinker, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball participant, coach, and supervisor (b. 1907)
• 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African educational and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)^[32]
• 1970 – Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1970 – Bob Kalsu, American soccer participant and lieutenant (b. 1945)
• 1972 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter and sailor (b. 1889)
• 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Lee Miller, American mannequin and photographer (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Paul Warwick, English race automobile driver (b. 1969)
• 1994 – Marijac, French writer and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Robert Younger, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and writer (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American writer and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 – John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Lengthy John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and supervisor (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist and educational (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Donald Stokes, English businessman (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean educator and politician (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Ralph Houk, American baseball participant, coach, and supervisor (b. 1919)
• 2010 – John E. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-American journalist and writer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Marie Kruckel, American baseball participant (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet and writer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – James D. Ramage, American admiral and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Angharad Rees, English-b. Welsh actress (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorbike racer (b. 1988)
• 2013 – Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, Indian martial artist (b. 1981)
• 2013 – Det de Beus, Dutch discipline hockey participant (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, Colombian-French composer and educator (b. 1971)
• 2013 – Fred Taylor, American soccer participant and coach (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Louise Abeita, Isleta Pueblo (Native American) author, poet, and educator (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Dan Borislow, American businessman, invented the magicJack (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Lettice Curtis, English engineer and pilot (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Hans-Peter Kaul, German lawyer and choose (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Rilwanu Lukman, Nigerian engineer and politician (b. 1938)^[33]
• 2014 – Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby participant and boxer (b. 1927)^[34]
• 2015 – Robert Broberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2015 – E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, quick story author, and playwright (b. 1931)^[35]
• 2015 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American doctor (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Czesław Marchaj, Polish-English sailor and educational (b. 1918)^[36]
• 2015 – Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (b. 1949)
• 2016 – Dennis Inexperienced, American soccer participant and coach (b. 1949)^[37]
• 2017 – John Heard, American movie and tv actor (b. 1946)^[38]
• 2018 – Alene Duerk, U.S. Navy first feminine admiral (b. 1920)^[39]
• 2020 – Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (b. 1930)^[40]
• 2020 – Andrew Mlangeni, South African political activist (b. 1925) ^[41]

Holidays and observances[edit]