1970
Birth
"Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager"
🌍 Historical Events
379
Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
649
Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
1419
Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
1421
John VIII Palaiologos marries Sophia of Montferrat and is then crowned Byzantine co-emperor to his father Manuel II Palaiologos.
1511
The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
1520
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
1607
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
1639
Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) is granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
1764
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
1764
Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
1788
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
1795
The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
1817
An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
1829
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
1839
The British East India Company captures Aden.
1853
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
1861
American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
1862
American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871
Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
1883
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1899
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1901
Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, is stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.
1915
Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1915
German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917
Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
1920
The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
1920
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.
1937
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1941
World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.
1942
World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
1945
World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, fewer than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1946
General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
1953
Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
1960
Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
1960
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard.
1966
Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.
1969
Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
1977
President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
1978
The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
1981
Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1988
Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, Colorado, killing nine.
1990
Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
1991
Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
1993
Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
1995
After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
1996
The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
1997
Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
1999
British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
2006
A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes near Hejce, Hungary, killing 42.
2007
Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
2007
Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
2012
The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
2014
A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.
2024
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.
2025
Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".
🐣 Notable Births
399
Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (died 453)
1200
Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (died 1253)
1544
Francis II of France (died 1560)
1617
Lucas Faydherbe, Flemish sculptor and architect (died 1697)
1628
Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (died 1672)
1676
John Weldon, English organist and composer (died 1736)
1721
Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar and author (died 1740)
1736
James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer (died 1819)
1737
Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (died 1802)
1739
Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (died 1808)
1752
James Morris III, American captain (died 1820)
1757
Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (died 1831)
1788
Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (died 1874)
1790
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic (died 1855)
1798
Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1857)
1803
Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet, essayist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878)
1807
Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)
1808
Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and author (died 1887)
1809
Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (died 1849)
1810
Talhaiarn, Welsh poet and architect (died 1869)
1813
Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (died 1898)
1832
Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (died 1875)
1833
Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (died 1872)
1839
Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)
1840
Dethloff Willrodt, American Civil War veteran and politician (died 1932)
1848
Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German ancestry (died 1913)
1848
John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1904)
1848
Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (died 1883)
1851
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1922)
1852
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)
1863
Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (died 1941)
1866
Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor (died 1949)
1871
Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (died 1906)
1874
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (died 1922)
1876
Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (died 1943)
1876
Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet and author (died 1899)
1878
Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (died 1934)
1879
Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (died 1925)
1882
John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (died 1957)
1883
Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)
1887
Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (died 1943)
1889
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1943)
1892
Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1964)
1893
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (died 1986)
1901
Dunc Munro, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1958)
1903
Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright (died 1975)
1903
Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (died 1980)
1905
Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (died 1991)
1908
Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player (died 1994)
1908
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1971)
1911
Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge (died 2009)
1912
Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
1913
Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet (died 1955)
1913
Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player (died 1996)
1918
John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (died 2005)
1920
Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator (died 2017)
1920
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru (died 2020)
1921
Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (died 1995)
1922
Guy Madison, American actor (died 1996)
1922
Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 2015)
1922
Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1990)
1923
Dagmar Loe, Norwegian journalist (died 2024)
1923
Bob McFadden, American singer, impressionist, and voice-over actor (died 2000)
1923
Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (died 2013)
1924
Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (died 1985)
1924
Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (died 2006)
1925
Nina Bawden, English author (died 2012)
1926
Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (died 2013)
1926
Fritz Weaver, American actor (died 2016)
1930
Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist
1930
John Waite, South African cricketer (died 2011)
1931
Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2024)
1932
Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)
1932
Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
1932
Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (died 2014)
1933
George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian (died 2020)
1934
John Richardson, English actor (died 2021)
1935
Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (died 1978)
1936
Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
1936
Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, seventh President of Bangladesh (died 1981)
1936
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (died 2011)
1937
Princess Birgitta of Sweden (died 2024)
1937
John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
1939
Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)
1940
Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)
1940
Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (died 2010)
1941
Tony Anholt, British actor (died 2002)
1941
Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003)
1941
Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee (died 2020)
1942
Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
1943
Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1943
Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (died 1970)
1943
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944
Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer
1944
Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
1944
Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (died 2022)
1945
Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1946
Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic
1946
Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1947
Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic (died 2017)
1947
Paula Deen, American chef and author
1947
Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter
1948
Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist and academic
1948
Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
1948
Mal Reilly, English rugby league player and coach
1949
Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (died 2012)
1949
Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)
1950
Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
1951
Martha Davis, American singer
1952
Dewey Bunnell, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952
Nadiuska, German television actress
1952
Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (died 1999)
1953
Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and singer
1953
Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
1953
Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach
1954
Katey Sagal, American actress and singer
1954
Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director
1954
Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist
1955
Simon Rattle, English-German orchestral conductor
1956
Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host (died 2021)
1956
Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
1957
Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
1957
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director
1957
Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
1958
Thomas Kinkade, American painter (died 2012)
1958
Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (died 2023)
1959
Danese Cooper, American computer scientist and programmer
1959
Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor
1961
Paul McCrane, American actor, director, and singer
1961
Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
1961
William Ragsdale, American actor
1962
Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
1962
Chris Sabo, American baseball player and coach
1962
Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
1963
Michael Adams, American basketball player and coach
1963
Martin Bashir, English journalist
1963
John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
1964
Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
1964
Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
1966
Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1966
Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and coach
1966
Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer-songwriter
1968
David Bartlett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Tasmania
1968
Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter
1969
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
1969
Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach
1969
Trey Lorenz, American singer-songwriter and producer
1969
Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager
1969
Junior Seau, American football player (died 2012)
1969
Steve Staunton, Irish footballer and manager
1970
Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager
1970
Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
1970
Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer
1971
Eric Mangini, American football coach
1971
Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971
John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972
Drea de Matteo, American actress
1972
Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress
1972
Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach
1973
Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
1973
Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach
1974
Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1974
Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1974
Walter Jones, American football player
1974
Ian Laperrière, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1974
Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer and manager
1975
Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player
1975
Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
1976
Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
1976
Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver
1976
Drew Powell, American actor
1976
Marsha Thomason, English actress
1977
Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer
1979
Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster
1979
Byung-hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player
1979
Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
1979
Wiley, English rapper and producer
1980
Jenson Button, English racing driver
1980
Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer and choreographer
1980
Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer
1980
Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1980
Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer
1981
Paolo Bugia, Filipino basketball player
1981
Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
1981
Lucho González, Argentinian footballer
1981
Maxime Laisney, French politician
1981
Elizabeth Tulloch, American actress
1982
Pete Buttigieg, American politician
1982
Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
1982
Jodie Sweetin, American actress and singer
1982
Robin tom Rink, German singer-songwriter
1982
Shane Tronc, Australian rugby league player
1982
Kim Yoo-suk, South Korean pole vaulter
1983
Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
1984
Johnny Boychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1984
Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
1984
Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver
1984
Elvis Dumervil, American football player
1984
Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer
1984
Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
1985
Elliott Ward, English footballer
1985
Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
1985
Damien Chazelle, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
1985
Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
1985
Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian racing driver
1985
Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress
1985
Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer
1986
Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
1986
Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
1986
Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
1987
Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
1988
Tyler Breeze, Canadian wrestler
1988
JaVale McGee, American basketball player
1990
Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player
1990
Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress
1991
Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
1991
Erin Sanders, American actress
1992
Shawn Johnson East, American gymnast
1992
Logan Lerman, American actor
1992
Mac Miller, American rapper (died 2018)
1993
Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
1993
João Mário, Portuguese footballer
1993
Ricardo Centurión, Argentine footballer
1993
Walter Benítez, Argentine footballer
1993
Jack Schlossberg, American writer and political candidate
1994
Matthias Ginter, German footballer
1994
Alfie Mawson, English footballer
1994
Marvelous Nakamba, Zimbabwean footballer
1996
Jakub Jankto, Czech footballer
1998
Emre Guler, Australian rugby league player
1999
Jonathan Taylor, American football player
1999
Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer
2003
Felix Afena-Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
🕯️ Notable Deaths
520
John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople
639
Dagobert I, Frankish king (born 603)
914
García I, king of León
1003
Kilian of Cologne, Irish abbot
1302
Al-Hakim I, caliph of Cairo
1526
Isabella of Austria, Danish queen (born 1501)
1547
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)
1565
Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
1571
Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)
1576
Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1494)
1597
Maharana Pratap, Hindu Rajput king of Mewar (born1540)
1636
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Flemish painter (born1561)
1661
Thomas Venner, English rebel leader
1729
William Congreve, English playwright and poet (born 1670)
1755
Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1683)
1757
Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and academic (born 1674)
1766
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (born 1695)
1785
Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (born 1713)
1833
Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist and composer (born 1791)
1847
Charles Bent, American soldier and politician, first Governor of New Mexico (born 1799)
1847
Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (born 1772)
1851
Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (born 1805)
1853
Karl Faber, German historian and academic (born 1773)
1862
Felix Zollicoffer, American newspaperman, politician, and Confederate general (born 1812)
1865
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (born 1809)
1869
Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)
1874
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (born 1798)
1878
Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (born 1810)
1895
António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (born 1798)
1906
Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, sixth President of Argentina (born 1821)
1915
Ernest de Munck, Belgian cellist and composer (born 1840)
1929
Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (born 1873)
1930
Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)
1938
Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1864)
1945
Gustave Mesny, French general (born 1886)
1948
Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (born 1869)
1954
Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (born 1885)
1957
József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)
1963
Clement Smoot, American golfer (born 1884)
1964
Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (born 1886)
1965
Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (born 1905)
1968
Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (born 1879)
1972
Michael Rabin, American violinist (born 1936)
1973
Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (born 1903)
1975
Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (born 1889)
1976
Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (born 1886)
1979
Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (born 1884)
1980
William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)
1981
Francesca Woodman, American photographer (born 1958)
1982
Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (born 1945)
1983
Ham, chimpanzee and animal astronaut, first hominid in space (born 1957)
1984
Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)
1990
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)
1990
Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)
1990
Herbert Wehner, German politician, sixth Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1906)
1991
Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (born 1918)
1995
Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)
1996
Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)
1997
James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)
1998
Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)
1999
Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (born 1967)
1999
Robert Eugene Brashers, American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)
2000
Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)
2000
Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)
2000
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)
2002
Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1934)
2003
Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (born 1974)
2003
Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French Minister of Culture (born 1916)
2004
Harry E. Claiborne, American lawyer and judge (born 1917)
2004
David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1955)
2005
K. Sello Duiker, South African author and screenwriter (born 1974)
2006
Anthony Franciosa, American actor (born 1928)
2006
Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
2007
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)
2007
Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2007
Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)
2008
Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (born 1937)
2008
John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
2008
Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (born 1936)
2010
Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (born 1923)
2012
Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)
2012
Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (born 1982)
2012
Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)
2012
Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)
2013
Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)
2013
Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)
2013
Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)
2013
Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)
2013
Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)
2014
Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (born 1918)
2014
Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (born 1931)
2015
Justin Capră, Romanian engineer and academic (born 1933)
2015
Michel Guimond, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)
2015
Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1927)
2016
Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)
2016
Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
2016
Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)
2017
Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)
2025
Jeff Torborg, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)
2026
Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)