September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 120 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
Events
44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion .44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippics Mark Antony . He will make 14 of them over the following months.31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic : Battle of Actium : Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra .1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin , leading to the end of the Third Crusade .1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X , ending the Wars of Castro .1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral .1752 – Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar , nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe .1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution , rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops , more than two hundred priests , and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau , Switzerland, killing 457.1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon .1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.1833 – Oberlin College is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in Oberlin, Ohio .1856 – The Tianjing incident takes place in Nanjing , China.1862 – American Civil War : United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope 's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run .1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta , a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign .1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko .1870 – Franco-Prussian War : Battle of Sedan : Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.1885 – Rock Springs massacre : In Rock Springs, Wyoming , 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.1898 – Battle of Omdurman : British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick " at the Minnesota State Fair .1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America .1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk , Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany .1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater : The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay .1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam .
1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia .1958 – United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration , in history of Tibet . The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day .1963 – CBS Evening News 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19 .1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre , a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.1985 – Sri Lankan Civil War : Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust , who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.1992 – An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia . All 229 people on board are killed.1998 – The UN 's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu , the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda , guilty of nine counts of genocide .
Births
1661 – Georg Böhm , German organist and composer (d. 1733)1675 – William Somervile , English poet and author (d. 1742)1753 – Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. 1810)1778 – Louis Bonaparte , French-Dutch king (d. 1846)1805 – Esteban Echeverría , Argentinian poet and author (d. 1851)1810 – Lysander Button , American engineer (d. 1898)1810 – William Seymour Tyler , American historian and educator (d. 1897)1812 – William Fox , English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)1814 – Ernst Curtius , German archaeologist and historian (d. 1896)1820 – Lucretia Hale , American journalist and author (d. 1900)1830 – William P. Frye , American lawyer and politician (d. 1911)1838 – Bhaktivinoda Thakur , Indian guru and philosopher (d. 1914)1838 – Liliuokalani of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1839 – Henry George , American economist and author (d. 1897)1850 – Eugene Field American author and poet (d. 1895)1850 – Albert Spalding , American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founded the Spalding Sporting Goods Company (d. 1915)
1850 – Woldemar Voigt , German physicist and academic (d. 1919)
1852 – Paul Bourget , French author and critic (d. 1935)1853 – Wilhelm Ostwald , Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)1854 – Hans Jæger , Norwegian philosopher and activist (d. 1910)1862 – Franjo Krežma , Croatian violinist and composer (d. 1881)1865 – Simeón Ola , Filipino general and politician (d. 1952)1866 – Charles Vintcent , South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1943)1873 – Lily Poulett-Harris , Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1897)1877 – Frederick Soddy , English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)1878 – Herman , Estonian-Finnish archbishop (d. 1961)1878 – Ion Dragoumis , Greek philosopher and diplomat (d. 1920)
1878 – Werner von Blomberg , German field marshal (d. 1946)
1879 – An Jung-geun , Korean activist, assassin of Itō Hirobumi (d. 1910)1883 – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. 1963)1884 – Frank Laubach , American missionary and mystic (d. 1970)1892 – Dezső Kertész , Hungarian actor and film director (d. 1965)1894 – Joseph Roth , Austrian journalist and author (d. 1939)1901 – Andreas Embirikos , Greek psychoanalyst and poet (d. 1975)1901 – Adolph Rupp , American basketball player and coach (d. 1977)
1904 – August Jakobson , Estonian author and politician (d. 1963)1907 – Pertev Naili Boratav , Turkish author and educator (d. 1998)1910 – Paul Saagpakk , Estonian linguist, lexicographer, and academic (d. 1996)1911 – Romare Bearden , American painter and author (d. 1988)1911 – William F. Harrah , American businessman, founded the Caesars Entertainment Corporation (d. 1978)1912 – Ernest Bromley , Australian cricketer (d. 1967)1913 – Israel Gelfand , Russian-American mathematician and biologist (d. 2009)1913 – Bill Shankly , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1981)
1915 – Benjamin Aaron , American lawyer and scholar (d. 2007)1915 – Meinhardt Raabe , American actor (d. 2010)
1916 – Ömer Lütfi Akad , Turkish director and screenwriter (d. 2011)1917 – Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (d. 1995)1917 – Cleveland Amory , American author and critic (d. 1997)
1918 – Allen Drury , American journalist and author (d. 1998)1919 – Marge Champion , American actress, dancer, and choreographer1919 – Lance Macklin , English race car driver and businessman (d. 2002)
1922 – Leigh Kamman , American radio host (d. 2014)1923 – René Thom , French mathematician, biologist, and academic (d. 2002)1924 – Daniel arap Moi , Kenyan educator and politician, 2nd President of Kenya 1925 – Hugo Montenegro , American composer and conductor (d. 1981)1927 – Milo Hamilton , American sportscaster (d. 2015)1928 – Jim Jordan , Canadian educator and politician (d. 2012)1928 – Horace Silver , American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
1928 – Mel Stuart , American director and producer (d. 2012)
1929 – Hal Ashby , American actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)1929 – Beulah Bewley , English physician and academic
1929 – Rex Hartwig , Australian tennis player
1929 – Victor Spinetti , Welsh actor and director (d. 2012)
1931 – Clifford Jordan , American saxophonist (d. 1993)1931 – Alan K. Simpson , American politician, senator of Wyoming
1932 – Walter Davis, Jr. , American pianist (d. 1990)1932 – Arnold Greenberg , American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2012)
1933 – Ed Conlin , American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)1933 – Mathieu Kérékou , Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (d. 2015)
1934 – Chuck McCann , American actor and screenwriter1934 – Grady Nutt , American comedian, minister, and author (d. 1982)
1935 – D. Wayne Lukas , American horse trainer1936 – Andrew Grove , Hungarian-American businessman, engineer, and author1936 – Károly Krajczár , Hungarian-Slovene author and educator
1937 – Len Carlson , Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)1937 – Peter Ueberroth , American businessman
1938 – Leonard Appleyard , English diplomat, British Ambassador to China 1939 – Sam Gooden , American singer (The Impressions )1941 – Jyrki Otila , Finnish economist and politician (d. 2003)1941 – Sadhana Shivdasani , Indian actress (d. 2015)
1941 – John Thompson , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1943 – Rosalind Ashford , American singer1943 – Glen Sather , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1943 – Joe Simon , American singer-songwriter and producer
1944 – Janet Simpson , English sprinter (d. 2010)1946 – Luis Ávalos , Cuban-American actor (d. 2014)1946 – Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie , English humanitarian and politician
1946 – Billy Preston , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2006)
1946 – Walt Simonson , American author and illustrator
1946 – Dan White , American sergeant and politician (d. 1985)
1946 – Joe Yamanaka , Japanese singer (d. 2011)
1947 – Richard Coughlan , English drummer (d. 2013)1947 – Louis Michel , Belgian educator and politician, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 – Jim Richards , New Zealand race car driver
1948 – Nate Archibald , American basketball player and coach1948 – Terry Bradshaw , American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1948 – Christa McAuliffe , American educator and astronaut (d. 1986)
1949 – Moira Stuart , English journalist1950 – Rosanna DeSoto , American actress1950 – Michael Rother , German guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
1951 – Jim DeMint , American politician1951 – Mark Harmon , American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Mik Kaminski , English violinist
1952 – Jimmy Connors , American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster1952 – Mihhail Lotman , Estonian linguist, scholar, and politician
1953 – Maurice Colclough , English rugby player (d. 2006)1953 – Ahmad Shah Massoud , Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (d. 2001)
1953 – John Zorn , American saxophonist, composer, and producer
1954 – Billi Gordon , American neuroscientist, author, and actor1954 – Gai Waterhouse , Scottish-Australian horse trainer and businesswoman
1956 – Mario Tremblay , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1957 – Tony Alva , American skateboarder and bass player1957 – Steve Porcaro , American keyboard player and songwriter
1958 – Olivier Grouillard , French race car driver1958 – Lynne Kosky , Australian social worker and politician (d. 2014)
1959 – Drungo Hazewood , American baseball player (d. 2013)1959 – Guy Laliberté , Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and poker player, founded Cirque du Soleil
1960 – Eric Dickerson , American football player and sportscaster1960 – Kristin Halvorsen , Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1960 – Rex Hudler , American baseball player and sportscaster
1961 – Carlos Valderrama , Colombian footballer and manager1961 – Ron Wasserman , American singer-songwriter and producer
1962 – Eugenio Derbez , Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1962 – Alonso Lujambio , Mexican academic and politician (d. 2012)
1962 – Prachya Pinkaew , Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Keir Starmer , English lawyer and politician
1963 – Sam Mitchell , American basketball player and coach1964 – Andrea Illy , Italian businessman1964 – Keanu Reeves , Lebanese-Canadian actor, singer, and producer
1965 – Lennox Lewis , English-Canadian boxer1965 – Partho Sen-Gupta , Indian director and screenwriter
1966 – Dino Cazares , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer1966 – Massimo Cuttitta , Italian rugby player and coach
1966 – Salma Hayek , Mexican-American actress, director, and producer
1966 – Olivier Panis , French race car driver
1966 – Tuc Watkins , American actor
1967 – Frank Fontsere , American drummer and songwriter1967 – Andreas Möller , German footballer and manager
1968 – David Dinsmore , Scottish journalist1968 – Cynthia Watros , American actress
1969 – Stéphane Matteau , Canadian ice hockey player1969 – Dave Naz , American photographer and director
1971 – Kjetil André Aamodt , Norwegian skier1971 – Tommy Maddox , American football player and coach
1971 – César Sánchez , Spanish footballer
1971 – Tom Steels , Belgian cyclist
1972 – Robert Coles , English golfer1973 – Matthew Dunn , Australian swimmer1973 – Jason Blake , American ice hockey player1973 – Indika de Saram , Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 – Steven Johnson , Australian race car driver1975 – MC Chris , American rapper, actor, and screenwriter1976 – Syleena Johnson , American singer1976 – Aziz Zakari , Ghanaian sprinter
1977 – Frédéric Kanouté , Malian footballer1977 – Amanda Marcotte , American blogger and academic
1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef , Israeli footballer1979 – Brian Westbrook , American football player
1980 – Dany Sabourin , Canadian ice hockey player1980 – Danny Shittu , Nigerian footballer
1980 – Hiroki Yoshimoto , Japanese race car driver
1981 – Fariborz Kamkari , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter1981 – Jennifer Hopkins , American tennis player
1981 – Chris Tremlett , English cricketer
1982 – Joey Barton , English footballer1982 – Jason Hammel , American baseball player
1982 – Mark Phillips , English footballer
1983 – Rich Boy , American rapper and producer1983 – Mark Foster , English rugby player
1984 – Jack Peñate , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1985 – Keith Galloway , Australian rugby league player1985 – Eugenia Mandzhieva , Russian model
1986 – Gélson Fernandes , Swiss footballer1986 – Kyle Hines , American basketball player
1986 – Ryuji Imaichi , Japanese singer
1987 – Scott Moir , Canadian ice dancer1987 – Spencer Smith , American drummer
1988 – Ibrahim Šehić , Bosnian footballer1988 – Keisuke Kato , Japanese actor and singer
1988 – Javi Martínez , Spanish footballer
1988 – Ishant Sharma , Indian cricketer
1988 – Ishmeet Singh , Indian singer (d. 2008)
1989 – Marcus Morris , American basketball player1989 – Markieff Morris , American basketball player
1989 – Alexandre Pato , Brazilian footballer
1990 – Marcus Ericsson , Swedish race car driver1990 – Shayla Worley , American gymnast
1991 – Gyasi Zardes , American footballer1992 – Xenia Knoll , Swiss tennis player1992 – Nenad Lukić , Serbian footballer
1992 – Alberto Masi , Italian footballer
1993 – Tom Anderson , English footballer1993 – Robert Rooba , Estonian ice hockey player
1994 – Kishen Velani , English cricketer1995 – İbrahim Demir , Turkish footballer1995 – Deimantas Petravičius , Lithuanian footballer
1996 – Lilla Barzó , Hungarian tennis player
Deaths
421 – Constantius III , Roman emperor459 – Simeon Stylites , Byzantine saint (b. 390)595 – John IV of Constantinople 1031 – Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1000)1274 – Prince Munetaka , Japanese shogun (b. 1242)1540 – Dawit II of Ethiopia (b. 1501)1680 – Per Brahe the Younger , Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of Sweden (b. 1602)1688 – Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet , English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (b. 1631)1690 – Philip William, Elector Palatine , German Count Palatine of Neuburg (b. 1615)1764 – Nathaniel Bliss , English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1700)1765 – Henry Bouquet , Swiss-English colonel (b. 1719)1768 – Antoine Deparcieux , French mathematician and theorist (b. 1703)1790 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , German historian and theologian (b. 1701)1813 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau , French general (b. 1763)1820 – Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)1832 – Franz Xaver von Zach , Hungarian-French astronomer and academic (b. 1754)1834 – Thomas Telford , Scottish engineer and architect, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (b. 1757)1865 – William Rowan Hamilton , Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1805)1872 – N. F. S. Grundtvig , Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (b. 1783)1877 – Constantine Kanaris , Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1793)1885 – Giuseppe Bonavia , Maltese architect (b. 1821)1898 – Wilford Woodruff , American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)1910 – Henri Rousseau , French painter (b. 1844)1921 – Henry Austin Dobson , English poet and critic (b. 1840)1921 – Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1855)
1922 – Henry Lawson , Australian poet and author (b. 1867)1927 – Umegatani Tōtarō II , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (b. 1878)1934 – James Allan , New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)1934 – Russ Columbo , American singer, violinist, and actor (b. 1908)
1934 – Alcide Nunez , American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band ) (b. 1884)
1937 – Pierre de Coubertin , French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)1941 – Lloyd Seay , American race car driver (b. 1919)1942 – James Juvenal , American rower (b. 1874)1943 – Marsden Hartley , American painter and poet (b. 1877)1944 – Bella Rosenfeld , Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)1944 – Shirō Takasu , Japanese career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy (b. 1884)
1945 – Mason Phelps , American golfer (b. 1885)1948 – Sylvanus Morley , American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)1953 – Hendrik Offerhaus , Dutch rower (b. 1875)1953 – Jonathan M. Wainwright , American general, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1883)
1954 – Franz Leopold Neumann , German lawyer and political scientist (b. 1900)1962 – William Wilkerson , American publisher and businessman (b. 1890)1964 – Glenn Albert Black , American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)1964 – Alvin C. York , American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
1965 – Johannes Bobrowski , German poet and author (b. 1917)1969 – Ho Chi Minh , Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (b. 1890)1971 – Robert Mensah , Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)1973 – Carl Dudley , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)1973 – J. R. R. Tolkien , English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist (b. 1892)
1975 – Mabel Vernon , American activist (b. 1883)1976 – Stanisław Grochowiak , Polish poet and playwright (b. 1934)1977 – Stephen Dunne , American actor (b. 1918)1978 – Fred G. Meyer , American businessman, founded Fred Meyer (b. 1886)1979 – Otto P. Weyland , American general (b. 1903)1983 – Feri Cansel , Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)1984 – Manos Katrakis , Greek actor (b. 1908)1985 – M. Alalasundaram , Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician1985 – Abe Lenstra , Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
1985 – V. Dharmalingam , Sri Lankan Tamil politician (b. 1918)
1985 – Jay Youngblood , American wrestler (b. 1955)
1987 – Brian Clay , Australian rugby league player (b. 1935)1990 – Robert Holmes à Court , South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (b. 1937)1991 – Alfonso García Robles , Mexican politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1992 – Barbara McClintock , American geneticist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)1993 – Russel B. Nye , American author and educator (b. 1913)1994 – Roy Castle , English actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1932)1996 – Paddy Clift , Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1953)1997 – Rudolf Bing , Austrian-American manager (b. 1902)1997 – Viktor Frankl , Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
1998 – Jackie Blanchflower , Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)1998 – Allen Drury , American journalist and author (b. 1918)
2000 – Elvera Sanchez , American dancer (b. 1905)2000 – Curt Siodmak , German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
2001 – Christiaan Barnard , South African surgeon and academic (b. 1922)2001 – Troy Donahue , American actor (b. 1936)
2002 – Dick Reynolds , Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)2004 – Joan Oró , Catalan biochemist and academic (b. 1923)2005 – Bob Denver , American actor (b. 1935)2006 – Bob Mathias , American decathlete and politician (b. 1930)2006 – Willi Ninja , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2007 – Franz-Benno Delonge , German game designer, created TransAmerica 2007 – Max McNab , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
2008 – Bill Melendez , Mexican-American animator, director, producer, and voice actor (b. 1916)2009 – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy , Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1949)2011 – Roberto Bruce , Chilean journalist (b. 1979)2011 – Felipe Camiroaga , Chilean television presenter (b. 1966)
2012 – Mark Abrahamian , American guitarist (b. 1966)2012 – Jack Boucher , American photographer and director (b. 1931)
2012 – John C. Marshall , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
2012 – Emmanuel Nunes , Portuguese-French composer and educator (b. 1941)
2013 – Valérie Benguigui , French actress and director (b. 1965)2013 – Terry Clawson , English rugby player and coach (b. 1940)
2013 – Ronald Coase , English-American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
2013 – David Jacobs , English radio and television host (b. 1926)
2013 – Frederik Pohl , American author and publisher (b. 1919)
2013 – Paul Scoon , Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor-General of Grenada (b. 1935)
2014 – Peter Carter , Nigerian-English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (b. 1956)2014 – F. Emmett Fitzpatrick , American lawyer and politician, 20th District Attorney of Philadelphia (b. 1930)
2014 – Norman Gordon , South African cricketer (b. 1911)
2014 – Helena Rakoczy , Polish gymnast (b. 1921)
2014 – Goolam Essaji Vahanvati , Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Attorney General of India (b. 1949)
2015 – Ephraim Engleman , American rheumatologist, author, and academic (b. 1911)2015 – Stan Kane , Scottish-Canadian actor, singer, and painter (b. 1929)
2016 – Islam Karimov , Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
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