September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
Events
81 – Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus .629 – Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire .786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi . Birth of Harun's son al-Ma'mun .1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.1402 – Battle of Homildon Hill results in an English victory over Scotland.1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.1682 – Bishop Gore School , one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah 1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar , skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War .1791 – The Papal States lose Avignon to revolutionary France .1808 – Finnish War : Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais .1812 – Napoleonic Wars : The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.1814 – Battle of Baltimore : The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key . The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner .1829 – The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War .1846 – Jang Bahadur and his brothers massacre about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court.1862 – American Civil War : The Battle of South Mountain , part of the Maryland Campaign , is fought.1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6 , and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt .1914 – HMAS AE1 , the Royal Australian Navy 's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain , Papua New Guinea .1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic .1939 – World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orzeł in Tallinn , sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.1940 – Ip massacre : The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians , kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj , a village in Northern Transylvania , an act of ethnic cleansing .1943 – World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos , whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces .1954 – In a top secret nuclear test , a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.1958 – The first two German post-war rockets , designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr , reach the upper atmosphere.1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC ) is founded.1960 – Congo Crisis : With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton , is canonized by Pope Paul VI .1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin , who becomes the new president.1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel , is assassinated.1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.1985 – Penang Bridge , the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike .1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom .1999 – Kiribati , Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations .2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME .2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks . A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill , the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union .2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis : The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Births
208 – Diadumenian , Roman emperor (d. 218)1384 – Ephraim of Nea Makri , Greek martyr and saint (d. 1426)1388 – Claudius Clavus , Danish geographer and cartographer (d. 1438)1486 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa , German theologian, astrologer, and alchemist (d. 1535)1543 – Claudio Acquaviva , Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1615)1547 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch politician (d. 1619)1580 – Francisco de Quevedo , Spanish poet and politician (d. 1645)1656 – Thomas Baker , English historian and author (d. 1746)1713 – Johann Kies , German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781)1721 – Eliphalet Dyer , American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 1807)1736 – Robert Raikes , English philanthropist, founded Sunday school (d. 1811)1737 – Michael Haydn , Austrian singer and composer (d. 1806)1769 – Alexander von Humboldt , German geographer and explorer (d. 1859)1774 – Lord William Bentinck , English general and politician, 14th Governor-General of India (d. 1839)1791 – Franz Bopp , German linguist and academic (d. 1867)1804 – John Gould , English ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1881)1804 – Louis Désiré Maigret , French bishop (d. 1882)
1837 – Nikolai Bugaev , Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903)1847 – Fanny Holland , English actress and singer (d. 1931)1850 – Anton Mahnič , Slovenian bishop, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1920)1853 – Ponnambalam Arunachalam , Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (d. 1924)1860 – Hamlin Garland , American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1940)1864 – Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood , English lawyer and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)1867 – Charles Dana Gibson , American illustrator (d. 1944)1868 – Théodore Botrel , French singer-songwriter, poet, and playwright (d. 1925)1869 – Kid Nichols , American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)1872 – John Olof Dahlgren , Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1963)1879 – Margaret Sanger , American nurse and activist (d. 1966)1880 – Benjamin , Russian bishop and missionary (d. 1961)1880 – Archie Hahn , American sprinter, football player, and coach (d. 1955)
1883 – Richard Gerstl , Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1908)1885 – Vittorio Gui , Italian conductor, composer, and critic (d. 1975)1886 – Jan Masaryk , Czech soldier and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948)1887 – Paul Kochanski , Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983)1892 – Laurence W. Allen , English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1968)1896 – José Mojica , Mexican tenor and actor (d. 1974)1898 – Lawrence Gellert , Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector (d. 1979)1898 – Ernest Nash , German-Italian photographer and scholar (d. 1974)
1898 – Hal B. Wallis , American film producer (d. 1986)
1902 – Giorgos Papasideris Greek singer-songwriter (d. 1977)1902 – Alice Tully , American soprano and philanthropist (d. 1993)
1903 – Mart Raud , Estonian poet and author (d. 1980)1904 – Richard Mohaupt , German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1957)1907 – Yuri Ivask , Russian-American poet and critic (d. 1986)1909 – Peter Scott , English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (d. 1989)1909 – Stuff Smith , American violinist (d. 1967)
1910 – Lehman Engel , American composer and conductor (d. 1982)1910 – Jack Hawkins , English actor and producer (d. 1973)
1910 – Yiannis Latsis , Greek businessman (d. 2003)
1910 – Rolf Liebermann , Swiss-French composer and manager (d. 1999)
1911 – William H. Armstrong , American author and educator (d. 1999)1913 – Jacobo Árbenz , Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 1971)1913 – Rubby Sherr , American physicist and academic (d. 2013)
1914 – Mae Boren Axton , American composer and educator (d. 1997)1914 – Clayton Moore , American actor (d. 1999)
1915 – John Dobson , Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope (d. 2014)1916 – Eric Bentley , English-American singer, playwright, and critic1916 – John Heyer , Australian director and producer (d. 2001)
1917 – Rudolf Baumgartner , Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2002)1918 – Georges Berger , Belgian race car driver (d. 1967)1918 – Cachao López , Cuban-American bassist and composer (d. 2008)
1919 – Deryck Cooke , English musicologist and broadcaster (d. 1976)1919 – Gil Langley , Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (d. 2001)
1919 – Olga Lowe , South African-English actress (d. 2013)
1919 – Kay Medford , American actress (d. 1980)
1920 – Mario Benedetti , Uruguayan journalist and author (d. 2009)1920 – Lawrence Klein , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1920 – Alberto Calderón , Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
1921 – Constance Baker Motley , American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 2005)1921 – A. Jean de Grandpré , Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic
1921 – Paul Poberezny , American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013)
1921 – Dario Vittori , Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (d. 2001)
1922 – Michel Auclair , German-French actor (d. 1988)1922 – Frances Bergen , American model and actress (d. 2006)
1922 – Alfred Käärmann , Estonian soldier and author (d. 2010)
1923 – Nicholas Georgiadis , Greek painter and costume designer (d. 2001)1924 – Patricia Barringer , American baseball player and accountant (d. 2007)1924 – Jerry Coleman , American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
1924 – Abioseh Nicol , Sierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (d. 1994)
1924 – Wim Polak , Dutch journalist and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam (d. 1999)
1926 – Michel Butor , French author and critic1926 – Richard Ellsasser , American organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1972)
1927 – Martin Caidin , American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)1927 – Janet Davies , English actress (d. 1986)
1927 – Gardner Dickinson , American golfer (d. 1998)
1927 – Jim Fanning , American-Canadian baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1927 – Edmund Szoka , American cardinal (d. 2014)
1928 – Jay Cameron , American reed player and saxophonist (d. 2001)1928 – Alberto Korda , Cuban photographer (d. 2001)
1928 – Angus Ogilvy , English businessman (d. 2004)
1929 – Larry Collins , American-French journalist, historian, and author (d. 2005)1930 – Allan Bloom , American philosopher and academic (d. 1992)1930 – Romola Costantino , Australian pianist and critic (d. 1988)
1930 – Eugene I. Gordon , American physicist and engineer (d. 2014)
1932 – Harry Sinden , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager1932 – John Tembo , Malawian politician
1933 – Zoe Caldwell , Australian actress1933 – Harve Presnell , American actor and singer (d. 2009)
1934 – Sarah Kofman , French philosopher and academic (d. 1994)1934 – Paul Little , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1993)
1934 – Kate Millett , American author and activist
1934 – Don Walser , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
1935 – Fujio Akatsuka , Japanese illustrator (d. 2008)1936 – Harry Danielsen , Norwegian educator and politician (d. 2011)1936 – Terence Donovan , English photographer and director (d. 1996)
1936 – Walter Koenig , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Ferid Murad , American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Lucas Samaras , Greek-American painter and photographer
1937 – Renzo Piano , Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building 1938 – Franco Califano , Libya-born Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)1938 – Nicol Williamson , Scottish actor (d. 2011)
1939 – DeWitt Weaver , American golfer1940 – Larry Brown , American basketball player and coach1941 – Bruce Hyde , American actor and academic (d. 2015)1941 – Ian Kennedy , English lawyer and academic
1941 – Alberto Naranjo , Venezuelan drummer, composer, and bandleader
1941 – Alex St. Clair , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2006)
1942 – Oliver Lake , American saxophonist, flute player, and composer1942 – Roger Lyons , English trade union leader
1942 – Bernard MacLaverty , Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter
1943 – Irwin Goodman , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)1943 – Marcos Valle , Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1944 – Joey Heatherton , American actress, singer, and dancer1944 – Günter Netzer , German footballer and manager
1945 – Martin Tyler , English sportscaster1946 – Jim Angle , American soldier and journalist1946 – Wolfgang Sühnholz , German-American soccer player and coach
1947 – Jon Bauman , American singer1947 – Sam Neill , Northern Ireland-born New Zealand actor and director
1948 – Marc Reisner , American environmentalist and author (d. 2000)1949 – Steve Gaines , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)1949 – Tommy Seebach , Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2003)
1949 – Fred "Sonic" Smith , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994)
1949 – Eikichi Yazawa , Japanese singer-songwriter
1950 – Paul Kossoff , English guitarist and songwriter (d. 1976)1950 – Masami Kuwashima , Japanese race car driver
1950 – Mike Nifong , American lawyer and politician
1950 – John Steptoe , American author and illustrator (d. 1989)
1953 – Tom Cora , American cellist and composer (d. 1998)1953 – Judy Playfair , Australian swimmer
1954 – Barry Cowsill , American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2005)1954 – David Wojnarowicz , American painter and photographer (d. 1992)
1955 – Steve Berlin , American saxophonist, keyboard player, and producer1955 – Geraldine Brooks , Australian-American novelist and journalist
1955 – William Jackson , Scottish harp player and composer
1955 – Edu Manzano , American-Filipino actor and politician
1956 – Paul Allott , English cricketer and sportscaster1956 – Kostas Karamanlis , Greek lawyer and politician, 181st Prime Minister of Greece
1956 – Nathalie Roussel , French actress
1956 – Ray Wilkins , English footballer and manager
1956 – Lefteris Zagoritis , Greek lawyer and politician
1957 – Tim Wallach , American baseball player and coach1957 – Kepler Wessels , South African cricketer and coach
1958 – Paul Clark , English footballer and manager1958 – Jeff Crowe , New Zealand cricketer, referee, and manager
1958 – Arlindo Cruz , Brazilian singer-songwriter
1958 – Beth Nielsen Chapman , American singer-songwriter
1959 – John Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1959 – Morten Harket , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1960 – Ronald Lengkeek , Dutch footballer
1960 – Melissa Leo , American actress1960 – Callum Keith Rennie , English-Canadian actor and producer
1961 – Freeman Mbowe , Tanzanian politician1961 – Wendy Thomas , American businesswoman
1962 – Robert Herjavec , Croatian-Canadian businessman1962 – Tom Kurvers , American ice hockey player and sportscaster
1962 – Bonnie Jo Campbell American novelist and short story writer
1963 – Robin Singh , Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach1964 – Faith Ford , American actress1965 – Emily Bell , English journalist and academic1965 – Dmitry Medvedev , Russian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Russia
1965 – Kevin O'Hare , English ballet dancer and director
1966 – Aamer Sohail , Pakistani cricketer and politician1967 – Jens Lien , Norwegian director, producer, and screenwriter1968 – Grant Shapps , English politician1968 – Michelle Stafford , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Denis Betts , English rugby league player and coach1969 – Konstandinos Koukodimos , Australian-Greek long jumper and politician
1970 – Francesco Casagrande , Italian cyclist1970 – Ben Garant , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Jason Martin , Australian rugby league player, singer, and guitarist
1970 – Craig Montoya , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1970 – Mark Webber , English guitarist
1971 – Jeff Loomis , American guitarist and songwriter1971 – Andre Matos , Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
1971 – Christopher McCulloch , American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Kimberly Williams-Paisley , American actress, director, and producer
1972 – Notah Begay III , American golfer1972 – David Bell , American baseball player and coach
1973 – Nas , American rapper1973 – Tony Bui , Vietnamese director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Terrell Fletcher , American football player
1973 – Andrew Lincoln , English actor
1973 – Linvoy Primus , English footballer
1973 – Mike Ward , Canadian comedian and actor
1974 – Chad Bradford , American baseball player1974 – Hicham El Guerrouj , Moroccan runner
1974 – Mattias Marklund , Swedish guitarist
1974 – Helgi Sigurðsson , Icelandic footballer
1974 – Patrick van Balkom , Dutch sprinter
1976 – Agustín Calleri , Argentinian tennis player1977 – Mattias Agabus , Estonian architect1977 – Malik Bendjelloul , Swedish director and producer (d. 2014)
1977 – Miyu Matsuki , Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2015)
1978 – Ben Cohen , English rugby player1978 – Carmen Kass , Estonian model and actress
1978 – Danielle Peck , American singer-songwriter
1979 – Ivica Olić , Croatian footballer1979 – Stefan Stam , Dutch footballer
1980 – Ayọ , German singer-songwriter and actress1980 – Gareth Maybin , Northern Irish professional golfer
1981 – Miyavi , Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1981 – Katie Lee , American chef, author, and critic
1981 – Stefan Reisinger , German footballer
1981 – Yumi Adachi , Japanese actress and singer
1982 – SoShy , French-American singer-songwriter1982 – Petr Průcha , Czech ice hockey player
1983 – Arash Borhani , Iranian footballer1983 – Josh Outman , American baseball player
1983 – Frostee Rucker , American football player
1983 – Amy Winehouse , English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1985 – Paolo Gregoletto , American bass player and songwriter1985 – Trevis Smith , American football player
1985 – Aya Ueto , Japanese actress and singer
1985 – Delmon Young , American baseball player
1986 – Jonathan Monaghan , American director, producer, and screenwriter1986 – Steven Naismith , Scottish footballer
1986 – Barış Özbek , German-Turkish footballer
1986 – Alan Sheehan , Irish footballer
1986 – Ai Takahashi , Japanese singer and actress
1987 – Michael Crabtree , American football player1987 – Tinchy Stryder , Ghanaian-English rapper and producer
1988 – Martin Fourcade , French biathlete1988 – Diogo Salomão , Portuguese footballer
1989 – Jessica Brown Findlay , English actress1989 – Logan Henderson , American singer-songwriter
1989 – Jesse James , American actor
1989 – Lee Jong-suk , South Korean actor and model
1990 – Douglas Costa , Brazilian footballer1990 – Petar Filipović , German-born Croatian footballer
1990 – Belinda Hocking , Australian backstroke swimmer
1990 – Cecilie Pedersen , Norwegian footballer
1991 – Dee Milliner , American football player1991 – Nana , South Korean singer, actress and model
1992 – Connor Fields , American cyclist1994 – Brahim Darri , Dutch footballer1994 – Daniel O'Shaughnessy , Finnish professional football central defender
1994 – Krasimir Stanoev , Bulgarian footballer
1996 – Hugh Bernard , English cricketer1996 – Myles Wright , English professional footballer
Deaths
23 – Drusus Julius Caesar , Roman son of Tiberius (b. 13 BC)258 – Cyprian , African bishop and saint (b. 200)407 – John Chrysostom , Byzantine archbishop and saint (b. 347)585 – Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)775 – Constantine V , Byzantine emperor (b. 718)786 – Al-Hadi , Iraqi caliph (b. 764)891 – Pope Stephen V 1146 – Imad ad-Din Zengi , Syrian ruler (b. 1087)1164 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)1214 – Albert Avogadro , Italian lawyer, patriarch, and saint (b. 1149)1435 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1389)1523 – Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)1538 – Henry III of Nassau-Breda (b. 1483)1605 – Jan Tarnowski , Polish archbishop (b. 1550)1638 – John Harvard , English-American minister and philanthropist (b. 1607)1646 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire (b. 1591)1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini , Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625)1715 – Dom Pérignon , French monk and priest (b. 1638)1743 – Nicolas Lancret , French painter (b. 1690)1749 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham , English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1675)1759 – Louis-Joseph de Montcalm , French general (b. 1712)1807 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend , English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1724)1836 – Aaron Burr , American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)1851 – James Fenimore Cooper , American novelist, short story writer, and historian (b. 1789)1852 – Augustus Pugin , English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (b. 1812)1852 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , Irish-English field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)
1862 – Charles Pearson , English lawyer and politician (b. 1793)1862 – Charles Lennox Richardson , English-Chinese merchant (b. 1834)
1879 – Bernhard von Cotta , German geologist and author (b. 1808)1891 – Johannes Bosboom , Dutch painter (b. 1817)1898 – William Seward Burroughs I , American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (b. 1857)1901 – William McKinley , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (b. 1843)1905 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza , Italian-French explorer (b. 1852)1916 – José Echegaray , Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)1927 – Isadora Duncan , American-Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1877)1931 – Tom Roberts , English-Australian painter and educator (b. 1856)1936 – Ossip Gabrilowitsch , Russian-American pianist and conductor (b. 1878)1936 – Irving Thalberg , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1899)
1937 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)1942 – E. S. Gosney , American eugenicist and philanthropist, founded Human Betterment Foundation (b. 1855)1951 – Fritz Busch , German conductor and director (b. 1890)1952 – John McPhee , Australian businessman and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1874)1959 – Wayne Morris , American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)1960 – M. Karagatsis , Greek author, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)1961 – Ernst Gustav Kühnert , Estonian-German architect and historian (b. 1885)1962 – Frederick Schule , American hurdler, football player, and coach (b. 1879)1965 – J. W. Hearne , English cricketer (b. 1891)1966 – Gertrude Berg , American actress and screenwriter (b. 1899)1966 – Hiram Wesley Evans , American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1881)
1966 – Cemal Gürsel , Turkish general and politician, 4th President of Turkey (b. 1895)
1975 – Walter Herbert , German-American conductor (b. 1902)1979 – Nur Muhammad Taraki , Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)1981 – Furry Lewis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)1981 – William Loeb III , American publisher (b. 1905)
1982 – Christian Ferras , French violinist (b. 1933)1982 – John Gardner , American novelist, essayist, and critic (b. 1933)
1982 – Bachir Gemayel , Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1947)
1982 – Grace Kelly , American-Monacan actress; Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
1984 – Janet Gaynor , American actress (b. 1906)1986 – Gordon McLendon , American broadcaster, founded the Liberty Broadcasting System (b. 1921)1989 – Pérez Prado , Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)1991 – Julie Bovasso , American actress and playwright (b. 1930)1991 – Russell Lynes , American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1910)
1992 – August Komendant , Estonian-American engineer and academic (b. 1906)1992 – Paul Joseph James Martin , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1903)
1994 – Marika Krevata , Greek actress (b. 1910)1995 – Maurice K. Goddard , American colonel and politician (b. 1912)1996 – Rose Ouellette , Canadian actress and manager (b. 1903)1996 – Juliet Prowse , India-born South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1937)
1999 – Charles Crichton , English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)1999 – Giannos Kranidiotis , Greek politician and diplomat (b. 1947)
2000 – Beah Richards , American actress (b. 1920)2000 – Jerzy Giedroyc , Belarusian-Polish soldier and activist (b. 1906)
2001 – Stelios Kazantzidis , Greek singer and guitarist (b. 1931)2001 – Dorothy McGuire , American actress (b. 1918)
2002 – LaWanda Page , American actress (b. 1920)2003 – Jerry Fleck , American actor and director (b. 1947)2003 – Garrett Hardin , American ecologist and author (b. 1915)
2003 – John Serry, Sr. , American accordion player and composer (b. 1915)
2005 – William Berenberg , American physician and academic (b. 1915)2005 – Vladimir Volkoff , French soldier and author (b. 1932)
2005 – Robert Wise , American director and producer (b. 1914)
2006 – Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian-American bodybuilder and actor (b. 1926)2006 – Esme Melville , Australian actress (b. 1918)
2007 – Jacques Martin , French television host and producer (b. 1933)2007 – Robert Savoie , Canadian opera singer (b. 1927)
2008 – Hyman Golden , American businessman, co-founded Snapple (b. 1923)2009 – Keith Floyd , English chef and author (b. 1943)2009 – Henry Gibson , American actor and (b. 1935)
2009 – Jody Powell , American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (b. 1943)
2009 – Patrick Swayze , American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1952)
2012 – Jacques Antoine , French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze Fort Boyard 2012 – Eduardo Castro Luque , Mexican businessman and politician (b. 1963)
2012 – Winston Rekert , Canadian actor and director (b. 1949)
2012 – Kan Yuet-keung , Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (b. 1913)
2013 – Maksym Bilyi , Ukrainian footballer (b. 1989)2013 – Osama El-Baz , Egyptian soldier and diplomat (b. 1931)
2013 – Faith Leech , Australian swimmer (b. 1941)
2014 – Tony Auth , American illustrator (b. 1942)2014 – Peter Gutteridge , New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
2014 – E. Jennifer Monaghan , English-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 – Davey Browne , Australian boxer (b. 1986)2015 – Fred DeLuca , American businessman, co-founded Subway (b. 1947)
2015 – Martin Kearns , English drummer (b. 1977)
2015 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor , Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1949)
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