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October 6
Date
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 86 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
105 BC – Cimbrian War : Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army.
69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: Forces of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia .
AD 23 – Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion .
404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.
618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi .
1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.
1600 – Euridice , the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.
1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
1762 – Seven Years' War : The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
1777 – American Revolutionary War : British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River.
1789 – French Revolution : King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
1854 – In England the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia , the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
1923 – The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer , the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1939 – World War II : The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
1942 – World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
1943 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a paramilitary group in Crete.
1944 – World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass .
1973 – Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War .
1976 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four , ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976 – Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre .
1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29 , designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b , is discovered.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 – Instagram , a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.Births
649 – Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' (d. around 696)
1289 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1459 – Martin Behaim , German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
1510 – John Caius , English physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College (d. 1573)
1510 – Rowland Taylor , English priest and martyr (d. 1555)
1552 – Matteo Ricci , Italian priest and missionary (d. 1610)
1555 – Ferenc Nádasdy , Hungarian noble (d. 1604)
1565 – Marie de Gournay , French writer (d. 1645)
1573 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1624)
1576 – Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (d. 1612)
1591 – Settimia Caccini , Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1638)
1610 – Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier , French general (d. 1690)
1626 – Géraud de Cordemoy , French historian, philosopher and lawyer (d. 1684)
1716 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1771)
1729 – Sarah Crosby , English preacher, the first female Methodist preacher (d. 1804)
1732 – John Broadwood , Scottish businessman, co-founded John Broadwood and Sons (d. 1812)
1738 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1789)
1742 – Johan Herman Wessel , Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (d. 1755)
1744 – James McGill , Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813)
1767 – Henri Christophe , Grenadian-Haitian king (d. 1820)
1769 – Isaac Brock , English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1812)
1773 – John MacCulloch , Scottish geologist and academic (d. 1835)
1773 – Louis Philippe I of France (d. 1850)
1801 – Hippolyte Carnot , French politician (d. 1888)
1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879)
1820 – James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont , Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Armagh (d. 1892)
1820 – Jenny Lind , Swedish soprano and actress (d. 1887)
1831 – Richard Dedekind , German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1916)
1838 – Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian soldier, poet, and author (d. 1910)
1846 – George Westinghouse , American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914)
1862 – Albert J. Beveridge , American historian and politician (d. 1927)
1866 – Reginald Fessenden , Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932)
1874 – Frank G. Allen , American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1876 – Ernest Lapointe , Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1941)
1882 – Karol Szymanowski , Polish pianist and composer (d. 1937)
1886 – Edwin Fischer , Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 – Le Corbusier , Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (d. 1965)
1888 – Roland Garros , French soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
1891 – Hendrik Adamson , Estonian poet and educator (d. 1946)
1893 – Meghnad Saha , Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 1956)
1895 – Caroline Gordon , American author and critic (d. 1981)
1896 – David Howard , American film director (d. 1941)
1897 – Florence B. Seibert , American biochemist and academic (d. 1991)
1900 – Vivion Brewer , American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991)
1900 – Willy Merkl , German mountaineer (d. 1934)
1900 – Stan Nichols , English cricketer (d. 1961)
1901 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus , German-Brazilian zoologist and academic (d. 1990)
1903 – Ernest Walton , Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1905 – Helen Wills , American tennis player and painter (d. 1998)
1906 – Janet Gaynor , American actress (d. 1984)
1906 – Taffy O'Callaghan , Welsh footballer and coach (d. 1946)
1908 – Carole Lombard , American actress (d. 1942)
1908 – Sergei Sobolev , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1989)
1910 – Barbara Castle , English journalist and politician, First Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1910 – Orazio Satta Puliga , Italian automobile designer (d. 1974)
1912 – Perkins Bass , American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1913 – Méret Oppenheim , German-Swiss painter and photographer (d. 1985)
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (d. 2002)
1914 – Joan Littlewood , English director and playwright (d. 2002)
1915 – Carolyn Goodman , American psychologist and activist (d. 2007)
1915 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros , Portuguese-American cardinal (d. 1983)
1915 – Alice Timander , Swedish dentist and actress (d. 2007)
1916 – Chiang Wei-kuo , Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer , American activist and philanthropist (d. 1977)
1918 – Goh Keng Swee , Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
1918 – André Pilette , French-Belgian race car driver (d. 1993)
1919 – Siad Barre , Somalian general and politician, later president (d. 1995)
1919 – Tommy Lawton , English footballer and coach (d. 1996)
1920 – John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington , English lawyer and judge (d. 2005)
1921 – Evgenii Landis , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1997)
1921 – Joseph Lowery , American minister and activist (d. 2020)
1922 – Joe Frazier , American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
1922 – Teala Loring , American actress (d. 2007)
1923 – Robert Kuok , Malaysian Chinese business magnate and investor
1923 – Ya?ar Kemal , Turkish journalist and author (d. 2015)
1925 – Shana Alexander , American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1927 – Bill King , American sportscaster (d. 2005)
1928 – Flora MacNeil , Scottish Gaelic singer (d. 2015)[1]
1928 – Barbara Werle , American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1929 – George Mattos , American pole vaulter (d. 2012)
1930 – Hafez al-Assad , Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (d. 2000)
1930 – Richie Benaud , Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1931 – Nikolai Chernykh , Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
1931 – Eileen Derbyshire , English actress
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi , Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1933 – Prince Mukarram Jah , Titular Nizam of Hyderabad State
1934 – Marshall Rosenberg , American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
1935 – Bruno Sammartino , Italian-American wrestler and trainer (d. 2018)
1936 – Julius L. Chambers , American lawyer, educator, and activist (d. 2013)
1938 – Serge Nubret , Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor (d. 2011)
1939 – Melvyn Bragg , English journalist, author, and academic
1939 – Jack Cullen , American baseball player
1939 – Richard Delgado , American lawyer and academic
1939 – Sheila Greibach , American computer scientist and academic
1939 – John J. LaFalce , American captain, lawyer, and politician
1940 – Jan Keizer , Dutch footballer and referee
1941 – Paul Popham , American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (d. 1987)
1942 – Dan Christensen , American painter (d. 2007)
1942 – Britt Ekland , Swedish actress and singer
1942 – Fred Travalena , American comedian and actor (d. 2009)
1943 – Richard Caborn , English engineer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1943 – Peter Dowding , Australian politician, 24th Premier of Western Australia
1943 – Alexander Maxovich Shilov , Russian painter
1943 – Cees Veerman , Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1944 – Merzak Allouache , Algerian director and screenwriter
1944 – Patrick Cordingley , English general
1944 – Boris Mikhailov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
1944 – Carlos Pace , Brazilian race car driver (d. 1977)
1945 – Ivan Graziani , Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1946 – Lloyd Doggett , American lawyer and politician
1946 – Tony Greig , South African-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2012)
1946 – John Monie , Australian rugby league player and coach
1946 – Millie Small , Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1946 – Eddie Villanueva , Filipino evangelist and politician, founded the ZOE Broadcasting Network
1946 – Vinod Khanna , Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)
1947 – Patxi Andión , Spanish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2019)
1947 – Klaus Dibiasi , Italian diver
1948 – Gerry Adams , Irish republican politician
1948 – Glenn Branca , American guitarist and composer (d. 2018)
1949 – Lonnie Johnson , American inventor
1949 – Penny Junor , English journalist and author
1949 – Thomas McClary , American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Leslie Moonves , American businessman
1949 – Nicolas Peyrac , French singer-songwriter and photographer
1950 – David Brin , American physicist and author
1951 – Kevin Cronin , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 – Clive Rees , Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator
1951 – Gavin Sutherland , Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
1951 – Manfred Winkelhock , German race car driver (d. 1985)
1952 – Ayten Mutlu , Turkish poet and author
1953 – Rein Rannap , Estonian pianist and composer
1954 – Bill Buford , American author and journalist
1954 – David Hidalgo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Darrell M. West , American political scientist, author, and academic
1955 – Tony Dungy , American football player and coach
1956 – Sadiq al-Ahmar , Yemeni politician
1956 – Kathleen Webb , American author and illustrator
1957 – Bruce Grobbelaar , Zimbabwean footballer and coach
1959 – Turki bin Sultan , Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2012)
1959 – Oil Can Boyd , American baseball player
1959 – Brian Higgins , American politician
1959 – Walter Ray Williams, Jr. , American bowler
1961 – Miyuki Matsuda , Japanese actress
1961 – Paul Sansome , English footballer
1961 – Ben Summerskill , English businessman and journalist
1962 – David Baker , American biologist and academic
1962 – Rich Yett , American baseball player
1963 – Sven Andersson , Swedish footballer and coach
1963 – Elisabeth Shue , American actress
1964 – Ricky Berry , American basketball player (d. 1989)
1964 – Mark Field , German-English lawyer and politician
1964 – Tom Jager , American swimmer and coach
1964 – Miltos Manetas , Greek painter
1964 – Knut Storberget , Norwegian lawyer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Justice
1964 – Matthew Sweet , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 – Jürgen Kohler , German footballer and manager
1965 – Peg O'Connor , American philosopher and academic
1965 – Steve Scalise , American lawyer and politician
1965 – Rubén Sierra , Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1965 – John McWhorter , American academic and linguist
1966 – Melania Mazzucco , Italian author[2]
1966 – Jacqueline Obradors , American actress
1966 – Niall Quinn , Irish footballer and manager
1966 – Tommy Stinson , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1967 – Kennet Andersson , Swedish footballer
1967 – Svend Karlsen , Norwegian strongman and bodybuilder
1967 – Steven Woolfe , English barrister and politician
1968 – Bjarne Goldbæk , Danish footballer and sportscaster
1968 – Bob May , American golfer
1969 – Byron Black , Zimbabwean golfer
1969 – Muhammad V of Kelantan , Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1970 – Maria Kannegaard , Danish-Norwegian pianist and composer
1970 – Shauna MacDonald , Canadian actress and producer
1970 – Darren Oliver , American baseball player
1970 – Amy Jo Johnson , American actress
1971 – Phil Bennett , English race car driver
1971 – Takis Gonias , Greek footballer and manager
1971 – Alan Stubbs , English footballer, coach, and manager
1972 – Daniel Cavanagh , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Anders Iwers , Swedish bass player
1972 – Jarrod Moseley , Australian golfer
1972 – Mark Schwarzer , Australian footballer
1972 – Ryu Si-won , South Korean actor and singer
1972 – Ko So-young , South Korean model and actress
1973 – Jeff B. Davis , American comedian, actor, and singer
1973 – Ioan Gruffudd , Welsh actor
1973 – Sylvain Legwinski , French footballer and manager
1973 – Rebecca Lobo , American basketball player and sportscaster
1974 – Walter Centeno , Costa Rican footballer and manager
1974 – Kenny Jönsson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1974 – Seema Kennedy , British politician
1974 – Jeremy Sisto , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh , Vietnamese shooter
1975 – Reon King , Guyanese cricketer
1976 – Freddy García , Venezuelan baseball player
1976 – Magdalena Ku?erová , Czech-German tennis player
1976 – Stefan Postma , Dutch footballer and coach
1977 – Daniel Brière , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Melinda Doolittle , American singer-songwriter
1977 – Shimon Gershon , Israeli footballer and singer
1977 – Jamie Laurie , American singer-songwriter
1977 – Vladimir Manchev , Bulgarian footballer and manager
1978 – Carolina Gynning , Swedish model, actress, and singer
1978 – Ricky Hatton , English boxer and promoter
1978 – Liu Yang , Chinese astronaut
1979 – David Di Tommaso , French footballer (d. 2005)
1979 – Mohamed Kallon , Sierra Leonean footballer and manager
1979 – Richard Seymour , American football player
1979 – Pascal van Assendelft , Dutch sprinter
1980 – Arnaud Coyot , French cyclist (d. 2013)
1980 – Wes Durston , English cricketer
1980 – Abdoulaye Méïté , French footballer
1981 – Zurab Khizanishvili , Georgian footballer
1981 – José Luis Perlaza , Ecuadorian footballer
1982 – Levon Aronian , Armenian chess player
1982 – Latonia Blackman , Barbadian netball player[3]
1982 – William Butler , American musician and composer
1982 – Fábio Júnior dos Santos , Brazilian footballer
1982 – Hideki Mutoh , Japanese race car driver
1982 – Paul Smith , English boxer
1983 – Renata Vorá?ová , Czech tennis player
1984 – Morné Morkel , South African cricketer
1984 – Joanna Pacitti , American singer-songwriter
1985 – Mitchell Cole , English footballer (d. 2012)
1985 – Sylvia Fowles , American basketball player
1985 – Sandra Góngora , Mexican ten-pin bowler[4]
1985 – Tarmo Kink , Estonian footballer
1986 – Meg Myers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 – Olivia Thirlby , American actress
1987 – Joe Lewis , English footballer
1987 – Akuila Uate , Fijian-Australian rugby league player
1988 – Trey Edward Shults , American film director
1989 – Albert Ebossé Bodjongo , Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1989 – Tyler Ennis , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – Pizzi , Portuguese footballer
1990 – Han Sun-hwa , South Korean singer and actress
1992 – Taylor Paris , Canadian rugby player
1993 – Adam Gemili , English sprinter
1993 – Joe Rafferty , English-Irish footballer
1993 – Jourdan Miller , American fashion model
1994 – Lee Joo-heon , South Korean rapper and songwriter
1997 – Kasper Dolberg , Danish footballer
1999 – Niko Kari , Finnish race car driver[5]
2004 – Bronny James , American basketball player[6] Deaths
AD 23 – Wang Mang , emperor of the Xin Dynasty
404 – Aelia Eudoxia , Byzantine empress
836 – Nicetas the Patrician , Byzantine general
869 – Ermentrude of Orléans , Frankish queen (b. 823)
877 – Charles the Bald , Holy Roman Emperor (b. 823)[7]
997 – Minamoto no Mitsunaka , Japanese samurai (b. 912)
1014 – Samuel , tsar of the Bulgarian Empire
1019 – Frederick of Luxembourg , count of Moselgau (b. 965)
1145 – Baldwin , archbishop of Pisa
1090 – Adalbero , bishop of Würzburg
1101 – Bruno of Cologne , German monk, founded the Carthusian Order
1173 – Engelbert III , margrave of Istria
1349 – Joan II of Navarre , daughter of Louis X of France (b. 1312)
1398 – Jeong Dojeon , Korean prime minister (b. 1342)
1413 – Dawit I , ruler (Emperor) of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
1536 – William Tyndale , English Protestant Bible translator (b. c. 1494)
1553 – ?ehzade Mustafa , Ottoman prince (b. 1515)
1641 – Matthijs Quast , Dutch explorer
1644 – Elisabeth of France , queen of Spain and Portugal (b. 1602)
1660 – Paul Scarron , French poet and author (b. 1610)
1661 – Guru Har Rai , Indian 7th Sikh guru (b. 1630)
1688 – Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle , English soldier and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1652)
1762 – Francesco Manfredini , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1684)
1819 – Charles Emmanuel IV , king of Sardinia (b. 1751)
1829 – Pierre Derbigny , French-American politician, 6th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1836 – Johannes Jelgerhuis , Dutch painter and actor (b. 1770)
1873 – Pawe? Strzelecki , Polish-English geologist and explorer (b. 1797)
1883 – D?c c , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1852)
1891 – Charles Stewart Parnell , Irish politician (b. 1846)
1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson , English poet (b. 1809)
1912 – Auguste Beernaert , Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
1923 – Damat Ferid Pasha , Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
1942 – Siegmund Glücksmann , German politician (b. 1884)
1945 – Leonardo Conti , German SS officer (b. 1900)
1947 – Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg , American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof , German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1959 – Bernard Berenson , American historian and author (b. 1865)
1962 – Tod Browning , American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson , English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
1969 – Walter Hagen , American golfer (b. 1892)
1969 – Otto Steinböck , Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
1972 – Cléo de Verberena , Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909)[8]
1973 – Sidney Blackmer , American actor (b. 1895)
1973 – François Cevert , French race car driver (b. 1944)
1973 – Dick Laan , Dutch actor, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
1973 – Dennis Price , English actor (b. 1915)
1973 – Margaret Wilson , American missionary and author (b. 1882)
1974 – Helmuth Koinigg , Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
1976 – Gilbert Ryle , English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
1978 – Johnny O'Keefe , Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop , American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)
1980 – Hattie Jacques , English actress and producer (b. 1922)
1980 – Jean Robic , French cyclist (b. 1921)
1981 – Anwar Sadat , Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt , Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1983 – Terence Cooke , American cardinal (b. 1921)
1985 – Nelson Riddle , American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
1986 – Alexander Kronrod , Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
1989 – Bette Davis , American actress (b. 1908)
1990 – Bahriye Üçok , Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)
1991 – Igor Talkov , Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
1992 – Denholm Elliott , English actor (b. 1922)
1992 – Bill O'Reilly , Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)
1993 – Nejat Eczac?ba , Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczac?ba (b. 1913)
1993 – Larry Walters , American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
1995 – Benoît Chamoux , French mountaineer (b. 1961)
1997 – Johnny Vander Meer , American baseball player and manager (b. 1914)
1998 – Mark Belanger , American baseball player (b. 1944)
1999 – Amália Rodrigues , Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
1999 – Gorilla Monsoon , American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1937)
2000 – Richard Farnsworth , American actor and stuntman (b. 1920)
2001 – Arne Harris , American director and producer (b. 1934)
2002 – Prince Claus of the Netherlands (b. 1926)
2006 – Bertha Brouwer , Dutch sprinter (b. 1930)
2006 – Eduardo Mignogna , Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2006 – Buck O'Neil , American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
2006 – Wilson Tucker , American author and critic (b. 1914)
2007 – Babasaheb Bhosale , Indian lawyer and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 1921)
2007 – Laxmi Mall Singhvi , Indian scholar, jurist, and politician (b. 1931)
2008 – Peter Cox , Australian public servant and politician (b. 1925)
2009 – Douglas Campbell , Scottish-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – Rhys Isaac , South-African-Australian historian and author (b. 1937)
2010 – Antonie Kamerling , Dutch television and film actor, and musician (b. 1966)
2011 – Diane Cilento , Australian actress and author (b. 1933)
2012 – Chadli Bendjedid , Algerian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
2012 – Anthony John Cooke , English organist and composer (b. 1931)
2012 – Nick Curran , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1977)
2012 – Albert, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1943)
2012 – Joseph Meyer , American lawyer and politician, 19th Secretary of State of Wyoming (b. 1941)
2012 – B. Satya Narayan Reddy , Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of West Bengal (b. 1927)
2012 – J. J. C. Smart , English-Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Ulysses Curtis , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Rift Fournier , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Paul Rogers , English actor (b. 1917)
2013 – Nico van Kampen , Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1921)
2014 – Vic Braden , American tennis player and coach (b. 1929)
2014 – Igor Mitoraj , German-Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
2014 – Diane Nyland , Canadian actress, director and choreographer (b. 1944)
2014 – Marian Seldes , American actress (b. 1928)
2014 – Serhiy Zakarlyuka , Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1976)
2014 – Feridun Bu?eker , Turkish football player (b. 1933)
2015 – Árpád Göncz , Hungarian author, playwright, and politician, 1st President of Hungary (b. 1922)
2015 – Vladimir Shlapentokh , Ukrainian-American sociologist, historian, political scientist, and academic (b. 1926)
2015 – Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino , Peruvian historian, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1923)[9]
2017 – Ralphie May , American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1972)[10]
2017 – David Marks , British architect, designer of the London Eye (b. 1952)[11]
2018 – Scott Wilson , American actor (b. 1942)[12]
2018 – Montserrat Caballé , Spanish soprano (b. 1933)[13]
2019 – Ginger Baker , English drummer (b. 1939)[14]
2019 – Eddie Lumsden , Australian rugby league player (b. 1936)[15]
2020 – Eddie Van Halen , Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)[16]
2020 – Johnny Nash , American singer-songwriter (b. 1930)[17] Holidays and observances
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