April 28
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April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 247 days remain until the end of the year.
- 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines and the largest Catholic university in the world.
- 1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.[2]
- 1758 – The Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.[3]
- 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift, and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly before setting sail for Pitcairn Island.
- 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1794 – Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari, the capital and largest city of the island.
- 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
- 1858 – The Bawani Imli massacre, where 52 Indian freedom fighters were hanged to death on a tamarind tree by British colonial forces.[4][5]
- 1859 – The sailing clipper ship Pomona wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.[6]
- 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
- 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
- 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
- 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
- 1920 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
- 1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
- 1930 – The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
- 1937 – South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.[7]
- 1941 – The Ustaše massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.
- 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
- 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
- 1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.[8]
- 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
- 1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
- 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
- 1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
- 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
- 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
- 1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
- 1975 – General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.[9]
- 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
- 1978 – The President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.[10]
- 1983 – The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.[11]
- 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.[12]
- 1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
- 1991 – Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense.[13]
- 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
- 2004 – CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
- 1604 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Dutch settler in colonial North America (died 1662)
- 1623 – Wilhelmus Beekman, Dutch politician (died 1707)
- 1630 – Charles Cotton, English poet and author (died 1687)
- 1676 – Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (died 1751)
- 1715 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and educator (died 1767)
- 1758 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (died 1831)
- 1761 – Marie Harel, French cheesemaker (died 1844)
- 1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (died 1834)
- 1819 – Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (died 1884)
- 1827 – William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1904)
- 1838 – Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1913)
- 1848 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator (died 1909)
- 1854 – Hertha Marks Ayrton, Polish-British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (died 1923)[14]
- 1855 – José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (died 1933)
- 1863 – Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 1933)
- 1863 – Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (died 1929)
- 1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic (died 1940)
- 1868 – Lucy Booth, English composer (died 1953)
- 1868 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (died 1908)
- 1874 – Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (died 1936)
- 1874 – Sidney Toler, American actor and director (died 1947)
- 1876 – Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman (died 1938)
- 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director (died 1954)
- 1886 – Erich Salomon, German-born news photographer (died 1944)
- 1886 – Art Shaw, American hurdler (died 1955)
- 1888 – Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier (died 1918)
- 1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1970)
- 1896 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (died 1948)
- 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic (died 1963)[15]
- 1897 – Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (died 1986)
- 1900 – Alice Berry, Australian activist (died 1978)[16]
- 1900 – Heinrich Müller, German SS officer (died 1945)[17]
- 1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1992)[18]
- 1901 – H. B. Stallard, English runner and surgeon (died 1973)
- 1902 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (died 1979)
- 1906 – Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (died 1978)
- 1906 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and philanthropist (died 1999)
- 1908 – Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (died 1987)
- 1908 – Jack Fingleton, Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (died 1981)
- 1908 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (died 1974)
- 1909 – Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (died 1988)
- 1910 – Sam Merwin, Jr., American author (died 1996)
- 1911 – Lee Falk, American director, producer, and playwright (died 1999)
- 1912 – Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (died 1995)
- 1912 – Kaneto Shindō, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
- 1913 – Rose Murphy, American singer (died 1989)
- 1914 – Michel Mohrt, French author, historian (died 2011)
- 1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (died 1993)
- 1917 – Robert Cornthwaite, American actor (died 2006)
- 1921 – Rowland Evans, American soldier, journalist, and author (died 2001)
- 1921 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (died 2012)
- 1922 – Barbara Lüdemann, German politician (died 1992)[19]
- 1923 – Carolyn Cassady, American author (died 2013)
- 1923 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (died 2014)
- 1924 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (died 2014)
- 1924 – Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (died 2009)
- 1924 – Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (died 2021)[20]
- 1925 – T. John Lesinski, American judge and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (died 1996)
- 1925 – John Leonard Thorn, English lieutenant, author, and academic (died 2023)
- 1926 – James Bama, American artist and illustrator (died 2022)
- 1926 – Bill Blackbeard, American historian and author (died 2011)
- 1926 – Harper Lee, American novelist (died 2016)[21]
- 1926 – Hulusi Sayın, Turkish general (died 1991)
- 1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (died 1962)
- 1928 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and astronomer (died 1997)
- 1930 – James Baker, American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State
- 1930 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (died 1983)
- 1933 – Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (died 2014)
- 1934 – Lois Duncan, American journalist and author (died 2016)
- 1935 – Pedro Ramos, Cuban baseball player
- 1936 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)
- 1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (died 2006)
- 1937 – Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2014)
- 1937 – John White, Scottish international footballer (died 1964)[22]
- 1938 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (died 1995)
- 1941 – Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1941 – Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
- 1941 – John Madejski, English businessman and academic
- 1941 – Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 – Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author (died 2013)
- 1942 – Mike Brearley, English cricketer and psychoanalyst
- 1943 – Aryeh Bibi, Iraqi-born Israeli politician
- 1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte, American director and producer
- 1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of Wallonia
- 1944 – Alice Waters, American chef and author
- 1946 – Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and producer (died 2015)
- 1946 – Ginette Reno, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1946 – Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
- 1947 – Steve Khan, American jazz guitarist
- 1948 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2015)
- 1948 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (died 2014)
- 1949 – Jeremy Cooke, English lawyer and judge
- 1949 – Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
- 1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor and director (died 2006)
- 1950 – Willie Colón, American salsa musician and social activist (died 2026)
- 1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host, and producer
- 1950 – Steve Rider, English journalist and sportscaster
- 1951 – Tim Congdon, English economist and politician
- 1951 – Larry Smith, Canadian football player and politician
- 1952 – Chuck Leavell, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
- 1952 – Mary McDonnell, American actress
- 1953 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (died 2003)
- 1953 – Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1953 – Brian Greenhoff, English footballer and coach (died 2013)
- 1954 – Timothy Curley, American educator
- 1954 – Michael P. Jackson, American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
- 1954 – Vic Sotto, Filipino actor-producer, singer-songwriter, comedian and television personality
- 1954 – Ron Zook, American football player and coach
- 1955 – Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (died 2020)[23]
- 1955 – Eddie Jobson, English keyboard player and violinist
- 1956 – Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 – Hal Sutton, American golfer
- 1960 – Tom Browning, American baseball player (died 2022)
- 1960 – Elena Kagan, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1960 – Phil King, English bass player
- 1960 – Ian Rankin, Scottish author
- 1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (died 1993)
- 1960 – Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
- 1963 – Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater and coach
- 1963 – Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist and academic
- 1964 – Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
- 1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
- 1964 – Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
- 1964 – Barry Larkin, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
- 1964 – L'Wren Scott, American model and fashion designer (died 2014)
- 1966 – John Daly, American golfer
- 1966 – Too Short, American rapper, producer and actor
- 1967 – Chris White, English engineer and politician
- 1968 – Petra Bayr, Austrian politician[24]
- 1968 – Howard Donald, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1968 – Andy Flower, South-African-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
- 1969 – LeRon Perry Ellis, American basketball player
- 1970 – Richard Fromberg, Australian tennis player
- 1970 – Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player and scout
- 1970 – Diego Simeone, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1971 – Bridget Moynahan, American actress[25]
- 1972 – Violent J, American rapper
- 1972 – Jean-Paul van Gastel, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1973 – Jorge Garcia, American actor and producer
- 1973 – Andrew Mehrtens, South African-New Zealand rugby player
- 1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
- 1974 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player and coach (died 2011)
- 1974 – Vernon Kay, English radio and television host
- 1974 – Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer and journalist
- 1975 – Michael Walchhofer, Austrian skier
- 1977 – Titus O'Neil, American wrestler and football player[26]
- 1978 – Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host
- 1979 – Scott Fujita, American football player and sportscaster
- 1980 – Bradley Wiggins, English cyclist
- 1981 – Jessica Alba, American model and actress
- 1982 – Nikki Grahame, English model and journalist (died 2021)
- 1982 – Chris Kaman, American basketball player
- 1983 – Josh Brookes, Australian motorcycle racer
- 1983 – David Freese, American baseball player
- 1983 – Roger Johnson, English footballer
- 1983 – Thomas Waldrom, New Zealand-English rugby player
- 1984 – Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer
- 1985 – Lucas Jakubczyk, German sprinter and long jumper
- 1985 – Deividas Stagniūnas, Lithuanian ice dancer
- 1986 – Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player
- 1986 – Jenna Ushkowitz, Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1987 – Daequan Cook, American basketball player[27]
- 1987 – Drew Gulak, American wrestler[28]
- 1987 – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian actress and model
- 1987 – Bradley Johnson, English footballer
- 1987 – Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
- 1988 – Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
- 1988 – Juan Mata, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
- 1989 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
- 1992 – Blake Bortles, American football player
- 1992 – DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
- 1993 – Matt Chapman, American baseball player[29]
- 1993 – Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
- 1994 – Jakob Butturff, American bowler[30]
- 1994 – Wonpil, South Korean musician[31]
- 1995 – Connor Clifton, American ice hockey player[32]
- 1995 – Melanie Martinez, American singer
- 1997 – Shane McClanahan, American baseball player[33]
- 1997 – Denzel Ward, American football player[34]
- 1998 – Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor[35]
- 2000 – Victoria De Angelis, Italian musician[36]
- 2000 – Alek Thomas, American baseball player[37]
- 2001 – Anthony Volpe, American baseball player[38]
- 224 – Artabanus IV of Parthia (born 191)
- 948 – Hu Jinsi, Chinese general and prefect
- 988 – Adaldag, archbishop of Bremen[39]
- 992 – Jawhar as-Siqilli, Fatimid statesman[40]
- 1109 – Abbot Hugh of Cluny (born 1024)[41]
- 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (born 1140)
- 1197 – Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth (born 1132)
- 1257 – Shajar al-Durr, sovereign sultana of Egypt
- 1260 – Luchesius Modestini, founding member of the Third Order of St. Francis
- 1400 – Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (born 1327)
- 1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (born 1449)
- 1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (born 1461)
- 1643 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese politician (born 1578)
- 1710 – Thomas Betterton, English actor and manager (born 1630)
- 1716 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (born 1673)
- 1726 – Thomas Pitt, English merchant and politician (born 1653)
- 1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (born 1668)
- 1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and politician (born 1737)
- 1781 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (born 1723)
- 1813 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (born 1745)
- 1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (born 1762)
- 1841 – Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (born 1803)
- 1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (born 1773)
- 1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (born 1801)
- 1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (born 1787)
- 1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (born 1818)
- 1883 – John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (born 1795)
- 1902 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (born 1819)
- 1903 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (born 1839)[42]
- 1905 – Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (born 1835)
- 1921 – Maurice Moore (Irish republican), executed member of the Irish Republican Army (born 1894)[43]
- 1925 – Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
- 1928 – May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (born 1860)[44]
- 1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (born 1879)
- 1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (born 1868)
- 1939 – Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (born 1867)[45]
- 1944 – Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (born 1880)
- 1944 – Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1874)
- 1945 – Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (born 1892)
- 1945 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (born 1906)
- 1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1883)
- 1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (born 1870)
- 1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)
- 1956 – Fred Marriott, American race car driver (born 1872)
- 1957 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (born 1913)
- 1962 – Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (born 1901)
- 1963 – Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (born 1880)
- 1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (born 1901)
- 1973 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (born 1893)
- 1976 – Richard Hughes, British author and poet (born 1900)
- 1977 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (born 1900)
- 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (born 1897)
- 1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (born 1909)[10]
- 1980 – Tommy Caldwell, American bass player (born 1949)
- 1987 – Ben Linder, American engineer and activist (born 1959)
- 1989 – Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and musician (born 1911)[46]
- 1991 – Steve Broidy, American film producer (born 1905)
- 1992 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (born 1909)
- 1993 – Diva Diniz Corrêa, Brazilian zoologist (born 1918)
- 1993 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1946)
- 1994 – Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (born 1910)
- 1996 – Lester Sumrall, American minister, founded LeSEA (born 1913)
- 1997 – Ann Petry, American novelist (born 1908)
- 1998 – Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (born 1923)
- 1999 – Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
- 1999 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (born 1927)
- 1999 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (born 1920)
- 1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
- 2000 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (born 1925)
- 2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (born 1916)
- 2002 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (born 1950)
- 2002 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (born 1916)
- 2005 – Percy Heath, American bassist (born 1923)
- 2005 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (born 1971)
- 2005 – Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (born 1959)
- 2006 – Steve Howe, American baseball player (born 1958)
- 2007 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (born 1917)
- 2007 – René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (born 1942)
- 2007 – Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (born 1929)
- 2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912)
- 2007 – Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (born 1923)
- 2009 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina and actress (born 1939)
- 2009 – Richard Pratt, Polish-Australian businessman (born 1934)
- 2011 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (born 1959)
- 2012 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (born 1920)
- 2012 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (born 1919)
- 2012 – Al Ecuyer, American football player (born 1937)
- 2012 – Patricia Medina, English actress (born 1919)
- 2012 – Milan N. Popović, Serbian psychiatrist and author (born 1924)
- 2012 – Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (born 1985)
- 2013 – Brad Lesley, American baseball player (born 1958)
- 2013 – Fredrick McKissack, American author (born 1939)
- 2013 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)
- 2013 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
- 2013 – János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (born 1924)
- 2013 – Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (born 1924)
- 2013 – Bernie Wood, New Zealand journalist and author (born 1939)
- 2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (born 1919)
- 2014 – William Honan, American journalist and author (born 1930)
- 2014 – Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (born 1953)
- 2014 – Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
- 2014 – Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1925)
- 2014 – Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (born 1938)
- 2014 – Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (born 1951)
- 2014 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (born 1981)
- 2015 – Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (born 1932)
- 2015 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (born 1918)
- 2015 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (born 1916)
- 2016 – Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (born 1947)
- 2017 – Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (born 1929)
- 2018 – James Hylton, American race car driver (born 1934)
- 2019 – Richard Lugar, American politician (born 1932)[47]
- 2019 – John Singleton, American film director (born 1968)[48]
- 2021 – Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)[49]
- 2021 – El Risitas, Spanish comedian (born 1956)[50]
- 2024 – Brian McCardie, Scottish actor and writer (born 1965)[51]
Holidays and observances
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