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== Events ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[672]] – [[Pope Adeodatus II|Adeodatus II]] is elected [[Pope]].
* [[1689]] – [[William III of England|William III]] and [[Mary II of England|Mary II]] are crowned as joint [[monarch]]s of [[Scotland]], [[England]] and [[Ireland]].
* [[1713]] - [[War of the Spanish Succession]] - [[Treaty of Utrecht]].
* [[1775]] – [[Germany]]'s last [[witchcraft]] execution takes place.
* [[1814]] – [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] abdicates as [[Emperor]] of [[France]], and is exiled on the island of [[Elba]].
* [[1856]] - [[Battle of Rivas]] in [[Costa Rica]]: [[Juan Santamaria]] burns down the [[hostel]] where [[William Walker]]'s [[filibuster]]s are holed up.
* [[1868]] – Former [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] surrenders [[Edo]] Castle to Imperial forces, ending the [[Tokugawa Shogunate]] in [[Japan]].

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 2000 ===
* [[1909]] - The [[city]] of [[Tel Aviv]] in present-day [[Israel]] is founded.
* [[1912]] – The [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] leaves Queenstown, [[Ireland]], bound for [[New York City]]. This was its last stop before its sinking.
* [[1919]] - The [[International Labour Organization]] is founded.
* [[1921]] - [[Emir]] Abdullah establishes the first centralized [[government]] the newly created British [[protectorate]] of [[Transjordan]].
* [[1945]] – [[Buchenwald]] Concentration Camp is liberated.
* [[1951]] – General [[Douglas MacArthur]] is relieved of his duties by [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Harry S. Truman]].
* [[1951]] – The Stone of Scone, on which [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[monarch]]s were crowned, is found in [[Arbroath]], after it had been taken from [[Westminster Abbey]] by Scottish nationalist students. It is later officially returned to [[Scotland]] in [[1996]].
* [[1954]] – [[April|April 11]], [[1954]] is allegedly the most boring day of the [[20th century]].
* [[1955]] - The [[Air India]] ''[[Kashmir]] Princess'' [[aircraft]] is [[bomb]]ed and crashes in a failed [[assassination]] attempt on [[Zhou Enlai]] by the [[Kuomintang]].
* [[1957]] - The [[United Kingdom]] agrees to [[Singapore]]an self-rule.
* [[1961]] – [[Nazi]] [[war crime|war criminal]] [[Adolf Eichmann]] is put on trial.
* [[1965]] - 56 [[tornado]]es hit six [[Midwest]]ern [[US]] States, killing 256 people.
* [[1968]] – German activist [[Rudi Dutschke]] is shot. This indirectly leads to his death of an epileptic seizure in [[1979]].
* [[1970]] – [[Apollo 13]] launches with [[astronaut]]s [[James Lovell]], [[John Swigert]] and [[Fred Haise]] on board.
* [[1976]] - The [[Apple I]] is created.
* [[1979]] – [[Tanzania]]n troops enter [[Kampala]], as [[Uganda]]n dictator [[Idi Amin]] flees.
* [[1981]] – [[Brixton riot (1981)|Brixton riot]] One of three riots in [[Brixton]], [[London]] happened on this day.
* [[1983]] - [[Richard Attenborough]]'s [[movie]] [[Gandhi (movie)|Gandhi]] wins eight awards at the 54th [[Academy Awards]].
* [[1985]] – [[Albania]]'s head of state [[Enver Hoxha]] dies, and is succeeded by [[Ramiz Alia]].
* [[1987]] - The [[London]] Agreement is secretly signed between [[Israel]]s then-foreign minister [[Shimon Peres]] and King [[Hussein of Jordan]].
* [[1989]] - [[Ron Hextall]] becomes the first goaltender in [[NHL]] history to score a goal in the play-offs.
* [[1996]] - A [[fire]] at [[Düsseldorf]] [[Airport]] in [[Germany]] kills 17 people.

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2001]] – In an association football match, [[Australia national football team|Australia]] beats [[American Samoa national football team|American Samoa]] 31-0, setting a record for an international match in the sport.
* [[2002]] – [[Venezuela]]n [[President]] [[Hugo Chávez]] is briefly removed from office in a [[US]]-backed coup, but is soon reinstated.
* [[2006]] – Italian [[crime]] boss [[Bernardo Provenzano]] is arrested.
* [[2006]] - [[President of Iran]] [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] announces that his [[country]] has enriched [[uranium]].
* [[2006]] - [[Ehud Olmert]] officially becomes [[Prime Minister of Israel]], as [[Ariel Sharon]] is unable to continue in this role after a stroke three months earlier.
* [[2007]] – A terrorist bombing occurs in [[Algiers]].
* [[2011]] – In [[Ivory Coast]], the political crisis comes to an end after [[Laurent Gbagbo]] is arrested in [[Abidjan]], with [[Alassane Ouattara]] becoming the next President.
* [[2011]] - The [[Minsk]] [[Metro]] is bombed, killing 15 people.
* [[2012]] – Two [[earthquake]]s, including one of magnitude 8.2, strike off [[Sumatra]], causing a [[tsunami]] alert.
* [[2018]] - An [[Algeria]]n military plane crashes shortly after take-off, killing 257 people.
* [[2019]] - [[India]]'s 2019 general [[election]] begins; lasting over six weeks, it is the world's biggest [[Democracy|democratic]] process.
* [[2019]] - [[Ecuador]] removes the [[asylum]] it gave to [[WikiLeaks]] founder [[Julian Assange]] at its [[embassy]] in [[London]], leading to his arrest after seven years spent there.
* [[2019]] - [[President]] of [[Sudan]] [[Omar al-Bashir]] is removed from power by the [[military]], after a series of protests against his rule.

== Births ==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[146]] – [[Septimius Severus]], [[Roman Emperor]] (d. [[211]])
* [[1184]] - [[William of Winchester, Duke of Lüneburg]] (d. [[1213]])
* [[1348]] - [[Andronikos IV Palaiologus]], [[Emperor]] of the [[Byzantine Empire]] (d. [[1385]])
* [[1357]] – King [[John I of Portugal]] (d. [[1433]])
* [[1370]] - [[Frederick I, Elector of Saxony]] (d. [[1428]])
* [[1373]] – [[Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March]] (d. [[1398]])
* [[1492]] – [[Margaret of Navarre]], Queen of Navarre and writer (d. [[1549]])
* [[1493]] - [[George I, Duke of Pomerania]] (d. [[1531]])
* [[1568]] – [[Marin Getaldić]], Croatian physicist and astronomer (d. [[1626]])
* [[1592]] - [[John Eliot]], English [[statesman]] (d. [[1632]])
* [[1715]] - [[John Alcock]], English [[Organ (music)|organist]] and [[composer]] (d. [[1806]])
* [[1723]] – [[Franz Anton Bustelli]], porcelain moulder (d. [[1763]])
* [[1749]] - [[Adelaide Labille-Guiard]], French painter (d. [[1803]])
* [[1755]] – [[James Parkinson]], English physician (d. [[1824]])
* [[1770]] – [[George Canning]], shortest-serving [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1827]])
* [[1790]] - [[George Rockingham Gilmer]], [[Governor]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] (d. [[1859]])
* [[1794]] - [[Edward Everett]], 16th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[1798]] - [[Macedonio Melloni]], Italian [[physicist]] (d. [[1854]])
* [[1806]] - [[Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play]], French [[engineer]] and social reformer (d. [[1882]])
* [[1806]] - [[George Thorn (senior)|George Thorn Sr.]], Australian politician (d. [[1876]])
* [[1810]] – Sir [[Henry Rawlinson|Henry Creswicke Rawlinson]], soldier and orientalist (d. [[1895]])
* [[1819]] – [[Charles Hallé]], pianist and conductor (d. [[1895]])
* [[1822]] - [[James Esmond]], Irish-Australian gold prospector and miner (d. [[1890]])
* [[1824]] - [[Johanna von Puttkamer]], wife of [[Otto von Bismarck]] (d. [[1894]])
* [[1825]] – [[Ferdinand Lassalle]], German politician (d. [[1864]])
* [[1827]] - [[Mahatma Jyotirau Phule]], Indian social reformer (d. [[1890]])
* [[1832]] - [[Helena Scott]], Australian artist and naturalist (d. [[1910]])
* [[1837]] - [[Marshall Burdekin]], Australian politician, [[Treasurer]] of [[New South Wales]] (d. [[1886]])
* [[1845]] - [[Thomas O'Callaghan]], Australian [[police]] officer (d. [[1931]])
* [[1856]] - [[Sydney Smith (Australian politician)|Sydney Smith]], Australian politician (d. [[1934]])
* [[1856]] - [[Arthur Shrewsbury]], English [[cricket]]er (d. [[1903]])
* [[1862]] – [[Charles Evans Hughes]], American jurist and politician, [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[1948]])
* [[1862]] - [[William Wallace Campbell]], American [[astronomer]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[1864]] - [[Johanna Elberskirchen]], German [[Feminism|feminist]] (d. [[1943]])
* [[1866]] - [[Bernard O'Dowd]], Australian [[poet]], [[activist]], [[lawyer]] and [[journalist]] (d. [[1953]])
* [[1869]] – [[Kasturba Gandhi]], Indian activist and pacifist (d. [[1944]])
* [[1869]] – [[Gustav Vigeland]], Norwegian sculptor (d. [[1943]])
* [[1871]] - [[Gyula Kellner]], Hungarian athlete (d. [[1946]])
* [[1874]] - [[David Murray Anderson]], British [[Governor]] and naval officer, 66th [[Governor]] of [[Newfoundland]] and 28th [[Governor]] of [[New South Wales]] (d. [[1936]])
* [[1876]] - [[Ivane Javakishvili]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]n [[historian]] (d. [[1940]])
* [[1879]] - [[Bernhard Schmidt]], Estonian-German [[astronomer]] (d. [[1935]])
* [[1883]] – [[Hozumi Shigeto]], Japanese writer (d. [[1951]])
* [[1889]] – [[Nick LaRocca]], jazz musician (d. [[1961]])
* [[1890]] - [[Rachele Mussolini]], Italian writer and wife of [[Benito Mussolini]] (d. [[1979]])
* [[1893]] – [[Dean Acheson]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (d. [[1971]])
* [[1894]] - [[Frank Berryman]], Australian army officer and general (d. [[1981]])
* [[1896]] – [[Wieland Herzfelde]], publisher and writer (d. [[1989]])
* [[1898]] - [[Robert Monahan]], Australian lawyer and judge (d. [[1975]])
* [[1899]] - [[Norman Nock]], Australian businessman and politician, 63rd Lord [[Mayor]] of [[Sydney]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[1900]] – [[Sándor Márai]], Hungarian writer (d. [[1989]])

=== 1901 {{ndash}} 1950 ===
* [[1901]] - [[Arnold Matters]], Australian [[opera]]tic [[baritone]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[1903]] - [[Hazel Claire Weekes]], Australian [[physician]] and health writer (d. [[1990]])
* [[1904]] - [[Cyril Pearl]], Australian journalist, editor, author, social historian and television personality (d. [[1987]])
* [[1906]] – [[Dale Messick]], American [[cartoonist]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[1906]] - [[Masaru Ibaka]], Japanese businessman (d. [[1997]])
* [[1908]] – [[Leo Rosten]], humorist, writer (d. [[1997]])
* [[1910]] – [[António de Spínola]], Portuguese politician (d. [[1996]])
* [[1911]] – [[Leopold Hawelka]], Austrian [[Coffee|cafetier]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[1911]] – [[Stanislawa Walasiewicz]], Polish-American runner (d. [[1980]])
* [[1913]] – [[Oleg Cassini]], French-American fashion designer (d. [[2006]])
* [[1914]] - [[Norman McLaren]], Scottish-Canadian [[Animation|animator]], [[Movie director|director]] and [[producer]] (d. [[1987]])
* [[1914]] - [[Robert Stanfield]], 17th [[Premier]] of [[Nova Scotia]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[1916]] – [[Alberto Ginastera]], Argentine composer (d. [[1983]])
* [[1918]] - [[Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber]], French journalist and politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[1919]] - [[Raymond Carr]], English [[historian]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[1920]] - [[Emilio Colombo]], 40th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (d. [[2013]])
* [[1920]] – [[Marlen Haushofer]], writer (d. [[1990]])
* [[1925]] - [[Yuriy Lituyev]], Russian hurdler (d. [[2000]])
* [[1925]] - [[George Shuffler]], American musician (d. [[2014]])
* [[1926]] - [[David Manker Abshire]], former [[United States]] Ambassador to [[NATO]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1928]] – [[Ethel Kennedy]], wife of [[Robert F. Kennedy]]
* [[1928]] - [[Edwin Pope]], American journalist (d. [[2017]])
* [[1930]] – [[Anton LaVey]], founder of the [[Church of Satan]] (d. [[1997]])
* [[1930]] - [[Nicholas F. Brady]], 68th [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]
* [[1931]] - [[Koichi Sugiyama]], Japanese composer
* [[1931]] - [[Sergio Sebastiani]], Italian [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]]
* [[1931]] – [[Johnny Sheffield]], American actor (d. [[2010]])
* [[1932]] – [[Joel Grey]], singer, actor, and dancer
* [[1933]] – [[Tony Brown (journalist)|Tony Brown]], American journalist, broadcaster
* [[1934]] - [[Mark Strand]], Canadian-American [[poet]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1935]] – [[Richard Berry]], American singer and composer (d. [[1997]])
* [[1937]] - [[Jill Gascoine]], British [[actress]] and [[novel]]ist
* [[1938]] – [[Kurt Moll]], German bass (d. [[2017]])
* [[1939]] – [[Louise Lasser]], American actress
* [[1941]] - [[Wang Jun (businessman)|Wang Jun]], Chinese business executive (d. [[2019]])
* [[1941]] - [[D. Babu Paul]], Indian civil servant (d. [[2019]])
* [[1941]] - [[Shirley Stelfox]], English actress (d. [[2015]])
* [[1942]] - [[Anatoly Berezovoy]], Russian [[cosmonaut]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1944]] – [[John Milius]], American director and writer
* [[1944]] - [[Nicoletta (singer)|Nicoletta]], French singer
* [[1945]] - [[John Krebs, Baron Krebs]], English [[zoo]]logist and academic
* [[1945]] - [[Winston Peters]], New Zealand politician, [[Deputy prime minister]] of [[New Zealand]]
* [[1946]] - [[Chris Burden]], American sculptor, illustrator and academic (d. [[2015]])
* [[1946]] – [[Bob Harris]], British disc jockey and presenter
* [[1947]] – [[Peter Riegert]], American actor
* [[1947]] – [[Meshach Taylor]], American actor (d. [[2014]])
* [[1949]] – [[Bernd Eichinger]], German movie producer (d. [[2011]])
* [[1950]] - [[Bill Irwin]], American actor

=== 1951 {{ndash}} 1975 ===
* [[1951]] – [[Doris McGowen Beck Angleton]], American socialite (d. [[1997]])
* [[1951]] – [[James Patrick Kelly]], American writer
* [[1953]] – [[Andrew Wiles]], British [[mathematician]]
* [[1953]] – [[Guy Verhofstadt]], former [[Prime Minister of Belgium]]
* [[1954]] – [[Abdullah Atalar]], Turkish academic
* [[1955]] - [[Rohini Hattangadi]], Indian actress
* [[1955]] – [[Kevin Brady]], American politician
* [[1955]] - [[Michael Ray Richardson]], American [[basketball]] player
* [[1955]] – [[Julie Czerneda]], writer
* [[1955]] – [[Michael Callen]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[1993]])
* [[1955]] - [[Piers Sellers]], British [[astronaut]] (d. [[2016]])
* [[1957]] - [[Richard Sevigny]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1957]] – [[Marina Fitch]], writer
* [[1958]] – [[Stuart Adamson]], British musician ([[Big Country]]) (d. [[2001]])
* [[1958]] – [[Luísa Diogo]], former [[Prime Minister]] of [[Mozambique]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://newclimateeconomy.net/content/Luisa-Diogo |title=Members of the Global Commission &#124; New Climate Economy &#124; Commission on the Economy and Climate |access-date=2015-06-22 |archive-date=2015-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607160547/http://newclimateeconomy.net/content/Luisa-Diogo |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[1958]] - [[Peter Skipper]], English [[footballer]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[1959]] - [[Pierre Lacroix]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1960]] – [[Jeremy Clarkson]], English journalist and television presenter
* [[1961]] – [[Doug Hopkins]], American musician (d. [[1993]])
* [[1961]] - [[Vincent Gallo]], American [[actor]], [[singer]], [[Movie director|director]], [[producer]] and [[screenwriter]]
* [[1964]] - [[John Cryer]], English [[journalist]] and [[politician]]
* [[1965]] - [[Corri Wilson]], Scottish [[politician]]
* [[1966]] – [[Lisa Stansfield]], English singer
* [[1966]] – [[Mason Reese]], American actor
* [[1968]] – [[Sergey Lukyanenko]], Russian science fiction writer
* [[1969]] - [[Caren Miosga]], German [[news]] presenter
* [[1969]] - [[Cerys Matthews]], Welsh singer
* [[1969]] - [[Oriol Junqueras]], [[Catalonia|Catalan]] politician, historian and academic
* [[1970]] - [[Trevor Linden]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1970]] – [[Whigfield]], Danish singer
* [[1971]] – [[Oliver Riedel]], German musician ([[Rammstein]])
* [[1972]] - [[Balls Mahoney]], American [[professional wrestler]] (d. [[2016]])
* [[1972]] – [[Jason Varitek]], American baseball player
* [[1973]] - [[Jennifer Esposito]], American actress
* [[1974]] - [[Mario Cantaluppi]], Swiss [[footballer]]
* [[1974]] - [[Tricia Helfer]], Canadian model and actress
* [[1974]] - [[Zoe Lucker]], British actress
* [[1974]] – [[Trot Nixon]], American baseball player

=== From 1976 ===
* [[1976]] – [[Antonio Pacheco]], Uruguayan footballer
* [[1978]] - [[Tom Thacker]], Canadian singer and musician
* [[1979]] - [[Nazanin Afshin-Jam]], Iranian-Canadian model and singer
* [[1979]] - [[Malcolm Christie]], English [[footballer]]
* [[1980]] – [[Keiji Tamada]], Japanese [[footballer]]
* [[1981]] - [[Alessandra Ambrosio]], Brazilian model and actress
* [[1981]] - [[Matt Ryan (actor)|Matt Ryan]], Welsh [[actor]]
* [[1982]] – [[Ian Bell]], English [[cricket]]er
* [[1982]] - [[Peeter Kümmel]], Estonian [[Skiing|skier]]
* [[1983]] - [[Jennifer Heil]], Canadian skier
* [[1984]] – [[Nikola Karabatic]], French [[handball]] player
* [[1984]] - [[Kelli Garner]], American actress
* [[1984]] - [[Monica May]], American actress
* [[1986]] - [[Dai Greene]], Welsh athlete
* [[1987]] – [[Joss Stone]], English singer
* [[1987]] - [[Lights (musician)|Lights]], Canadian [[musician]], [[singer]] and [[songwriter]]
* [[1988]] - [[Leland Irving]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1989]] - [[Zola Jesus]], American [[singer-songwriter]] and [[producer]]
* [[1990]] – [[Shohei Otsuka]], Japanese footballer
* [[1991]] – [[Thiago Alcántara]], Italian footballer
* [[1991]] - [[James Magnussen]], Australian swimmer
* [[1991]] - [[Erina Mano]], Japanese singer and actress
* [[1994]] - [[Duncan Laurence]], Dutch singer
* [[1994]] – [[Dakota Blue Richards]], English actress
* [[1996]] - [[Dele Alli]], English [[footballer]]
* [[1998]] - [[Oliver Dillon]], English actor
* [[2000]] - [[Morgan Lily]], American actress

== Deaths ==
=== Up to 1950 ===
* [[678]] - [[Pope Donus]]
* [[714]] - [[Guthlac of Crowland]], English [[saint]]
* [[1034]] – [[Romanus III]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[968]])
* [[1165]] – King [[Stephen IV of Hungary|Stephen IV]] of [[Hungary]] (b. [[1133]])
* [[1240]] – [[Llywelyn the Great]], [[King]] of [[Gwynedd]]
* [[1447]] - [[Henry Beaufort]], English [[bishop]] and [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (b. [[1375]])
* [[1771]] – [[George Canning, Sr.]], father of [[George Canning]] (b. [[1736]])
* [[1783]] - [[Nikita Ivanovich Panin]], Polish-Russian [[politician]] (b. [[1718]])
* [[1798]] - [[Karl Wilhelm Ramler]], German [[poet]] (b. [[1725]])
* [[1856]] – [[Jose Santamaria]], [[Costa Rica]]n national hero (b. [[1831]])
* [[1873]] - [[Edward Canby]], American [[general officer|general]] (b. [[1817]])
* [[1875]] - [[Andrew Jackson Hamilton]], 12th [[Governor]] of [[Texas]] (b. [[1815]])
* [[1884]] – [[Charles Reade]], English writer (b. [[1814]])
* [[1890]] – [[Joseph Merrick]], British man who was often referred to as the Elephant Man (b. [[1862]])
* [[1894]] - [[Constantin Lipsius]], German [[architect]] (b. [[1832]])
* [[1903]] - [[Gemma Galgani]], Italian mystic and [[saint]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[1906]] - [[James Anthony Bailey]], American businessman (b. [[1847]])
* [[1906]] - [[Francis Pharcellus Church]], American journalist and publisher (b. [[1809]])
* [[1908]] - [[Henry Bird]], English [[chess]] player and author (b. [[1829]])
* [[1916]] - [[Richard Harding Davis]], American author (b. [[1864]])
* [[1918]] - [[Otto Wagner]], Austrian [[architect]] (b. [[1841]])
* [[1921]] – [[Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein]], Empress of [[Germany]] and Queen of [[Prussia]] (b. [[1858]])
* [[1926]] - [[Luther Burbank]], American [[Botany|botanist]] and [[Horticulture|horticulturist]] (b. [[1849]])
* [[1934]] - [[John Collier (painter)|John Collier]], English painter (b. [[1850]])
* [[1950]] – [[Bainbridge Colby]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1869]])

=== 1951 {{ndash}} 2010 ===
* [[1953]] - [[Kid Nichols]], American [[baseball]] player and manager (b. [[1869]])
* [[1954]] - [[Paul Specht]], American [[violinist]] and [[bandleader]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[1958]] - [[Marcel Pilet-Golaz]], Swiss politician (b. [[1889]])
* [[1958]] - [[Konstantin Yuon]], Russian painter (b. [[1875]])
* [[1967]] - [[Donald Sangster]], 2nd [[Prime Minister]] of [[Jamaica]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[1970]] – [[John O'Hara]], American writer (b. [[1905]])
* [[1977]] – [[Jacques Prévert]], French [[poet]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[1983]] - [[Dolores del Rio]], Mexican actress (b. [[1904]])
* [[1985]] – [[Enver Hoxha]], Albanian political leader (b. [[1908]])
* [[1987]] – [[Primo Levi]], Italian writer and chemist (b. [[1919]])
* [[1990]] - [[Ivan-Lo Johansson]], Swedish writer (b. [[1900]])
* [[1992]] - [[Eve Merriam]], American [[playwright]], director and [[poet]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[1997]] – [[Wang Xiaobo]], Chinese writer (b. [[1952]])
* [[2001]] - [[Harry Secombe]], Welsh actor and comedian (b. [[1921]])
* [[2005]] – [[Lucien Laurent]], French [[footballer]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[2006]] – [[Proof (rapper)|Proof]], American rapper (b. [[1973]])
* [[2006]] - [[June Pointer]], American singer ([[Pointer Sisters]]) (b. [[1953]])
* [[2007]] – [[Kurt Vonnegut]], American writer (b. [[1921]])
* [[2009]] - [[Gerda Gilboe]], Danish actress (b. [[1914]])

=== From 2011 ===
* [[2012]] – [[Ahmed Ben Bella]], 1st [[President of Algeria]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[2014]] - [[Edna Doré]], English [[actress]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[2014]] - [[Jesse Winchester]], American [[singer-songwriter]], [[guitar]]ist and [[producer]] (b. [[1944]])
* [[2014]] - [[Nandu Bhende]], Indian [[musician]] (b. [[1955]])
* [[2014]] - [[Rolf Brem]], Swiss [[sculptor]], illustrator and graphic artist (b. [[1926]])
* [[2014]] - [[Bill Henry]], American [[baseball]] player (b. [[1927]])
* [[2014]] - [[Myer S. Kripke]], American [[rabbi]] (b. [[1914]])
* [[2015]] - [[Janusz Kurczab]], Polish [[Fencing|fencer]] (b. [[1937]])
* [[2015]] - [[Sheila Kitzinger]], British childbirth [[activist]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[2015]] - [[Charlie Beasley]], American [[basketball]] player (b. [[1945]])
* [[2016]] - [[Ed Snider]], American [[sport]]s executive (b. [[1933]])
* [[2016]] - [[Emile Ford]], Saint Lucian singer and sound engineer (b. [[1937]])
* [[2016]] - [[Anne Gould Hauberg]], American arts patron (b. [[1917]])
* [[2017]] - [[Dorothy Mengering]], American television personality (b. [[1921]])
* [[2017]] - [[Margit Schumann]], German luger (b. [[1952]])
* [[2017]] - [[Michael Ballhaus]], German [[cinema]]tographer (b. [[1935]])
* [[2018]] - [[Karen Dawisha]], American political scientist and writer (b. [[1949]])
* [[2018]] - [[Mitzi Shore]], American comedy club owner (b. [[1930]])
* [[2018]] - [[Zola Skweyiya]], South African politician (b. [[1942]])
* [[2018]] - [[Patrick F. McManus]], American columnist and writer (b. [[1933]])
* [[2018]] - [[Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber]], French journalist and politician (b. [[1918]])
* [[2019]] - [[Ian Cognito]], English comedian (b. [[1958]])
* [[2019]] - [[Stanley Plumly]], American poet (b. [[1939]])
* [[2019]] - [[Dmitri Savitski]], Russian novelist (b. [[1944]])

== Observances ==
* International Day of [[Rowing]]
* International Day of [[Parkinson's disease]] Awareness

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