Day of the year
June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 186 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.1651 – The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.1745 – A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style ).1776 – American Revolution : Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five present the draft of the United States Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress , which orders it to "lie on the table" for further edits by the assembly.[ 4] 1776 – American Revolutionary War : The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day .1776 – American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey , Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington , is hanged for mutiny and sedition .
1778 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.1797 – French troops disembark in Corfu , beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands .1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata ; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.1838 – Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom .[ 5] 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle Salle Le Peletier .1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne , England.1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.1870 – The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).[ 6] 1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan .1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone .1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.1895 – The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis 's claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act , authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal .1904 – The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland . More than 635 people die during the sinking.1911 – The Nakhla meteorite , the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars , falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.1914 – Causes of World War I : Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning the July Crisis and providing the casus belli World War I .1917 – World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I .1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution .1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum .1942 – World War II : Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union , codenamed Case Blue .1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day .1948 – Cold War : The Tito–Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform .1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1950 – Korean War : Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre .1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive . The city falls later that day.
1950 – Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre .
1956 – In Poznań , workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity .1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement .[ 7] 1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly , which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial .1978 – The United States Supreme Court , in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran , killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party .1982 – Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr , Belarus, killing 132 people.[ 8] 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bomb the Iranian town of Sardasht .1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo , Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II : Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield 's ear.2001 – Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.2004 – Iraq War : Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority , ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution . This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis .[ 9] 2012 – The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act 's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius .[ 10] 2016 – A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
Births
Pre-1600
751 – Carloman I , king of the Franks (died 771)1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (died 1304)1444 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (died 1487)1476 – Pope Paul IV (died 1559)[ 11] 1490 – Albert of Brandenburg , German archbishop (died 1545)1491 – Henry VIII , King of England (died 1547)[ 12] 1503 – Giovanni della Casa , Italian author and poet (died 1556)1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi , Italian organist and composer (died 1599)1557 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel , English nobleman (died 1595)1560 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris , Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (died 1657)1573 – Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby , English noble (died 1644)1577 – Peter Paul Rubens , Flemish painter and diplomat (died 1640)1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele , English politician (died 1662)
1604 – Heinrich Albert , German composer and poet (died 1651)1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien , consort to King John III Sobieski (died 1716)1653 – Muhammad Azam Shah , Mughal emperor (died 1707)1703 – John Wesley , English cleric and theologian (died 1791)1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Swiss philosopher and polymath (died 1778)1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1785)1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier , French organist and composer (died 1794)1742 – William Hooper , American physician, lawyer, and politician (died 1790)1824 – Paul Broca , French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (died 1880)1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer , German chemist (died 1909)1831 – Joseph Joachim , Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1907)1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides , Greek journalist and author (died 1904)1844 – John Boyle O'Reilly , Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (died 1890)1852 – Charles Cruft , English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (died 1938)1867 – Luigi Pirandello , Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)1873 – Alexis Carrel , French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)1875 – Henri Lebesgue , French mathematician and academic (died 1941)1879 – Wilhelm Steinkopf , German chemist (died 1949)1880 – John Meyers , American swimmer and water polo player (died 1971)1883 – Pierre Laval , French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (died 1945)1884 – Lamina Sankoh , Sierra Leonean banker and politician (died 1964)1888 – George Challenor , Barbadian cricketer (died 1947)1888 – Stefi Geyer , Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1956)
1891 – Esther Forbes , American historian and author (died 1968)[ 13] 1891 – Carl Spaatz , American general (died 1974)
1892 – Carl Panzram , American serial killer (died 1930)1893 – August Zamoyski , Polish-French sculptor (died 1970)1894 – Jessie Baetz , Canadian-American artist, composer and pianist (died 1974 or later)[ 14] [ 15] 1894 – Francis Hunter , American tennis player (died 1981)
1902 – Richard Rodgers , American playwright and composer (died 1979)[ 16] 1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)[ 17] 1907 – Jimmy Mundy , American saxophonist and composer (died 1983)1907 – Yvonne Sylvain , First female Haitian physician (died 1989)[ 18]
1909 – Eric Ambler , English author and screenwriter (died 1998)1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , German physicist and philosopher (died 2007)1913 – Franz Antel , Austrian director and producer (died 2007)1913 – George Lloyd , English soldier and composer (died 1998)
1913 – Walter Oesau , German colonel and pilot (died 1944)
1914 – Aribert Heim , Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (died 1992)1915 – David "Honeyboy" Edwards , American delta blues guitarist (died 2011)[ 19] 1917 – A. E. Hotchner , American author and playwright (died 2020)1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw , Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1999)1919 – Joseph P. Lordi , American government official (died 1983)1920 – Clarissa Eden , Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2021)1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao , Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (died 2004)[ 20] 1923 – Pete Candoli , American trumpet player (died 2008)1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz , Argentinian racing driver (died 2012)
1923 – Gaye Stewart , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2010)
1924 – Kalevi Keihänen , Finnish entrepreneur (died 1995)[ 21] 1926 – George Booth , American cartoonist (died 2022)[ 22] 1926 – Mel Brooks , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[ 23]
1926 – Robert Ledley , American academic and inventor (died 2012)
1927 – Correlli Barnett , English historian and author (died 2022)1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
1928 – Hans Blix , Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1928 – Patrick Hemingway , American writer (died 2025)[ 24]
1928 – Harold Evans , English-American historian and journalist (died 2020)
1928 – Peter Heine , South African cricketer (died 2005)
1928 – Cyril Smith , English politician (died 2010)[ 25]
1929 – Alfred Miodowicz , Polish politician (died 2021)1930 – William C. Campbell , Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate1930 – Itamar Franco , Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (died 2011)
1930 – Jack Gold , English director and producer (died 2015)
1931 – Hans Alfredson , Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)1931 – Junior Johnson , American race car driver (died 2019)
1931 – Lucien Victor , Belgian cyclist (died 1995)
1932 – Pat Morita , American actor (died 2005)1933 – Gusty Spence , Northern Irish loyalist and politician (died 2011)1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell , Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (died 2023)1934 – Roy Gilchrist , Jamaican cricketer (died 2001)
1934 – Bette Greene , American journalist and author (died 2020)
1934 – Carl Levin , American lawyer and politician[ 26]
1934 – Georges Wolinski , Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (died 2015)
1935 – John Inman , English actor (died 2007)1936 – Chuck Howley , American football player1937 – George Knudson , Canadian golfer (died 1989)1937 – Fernand Labrie , Canadian endocrinologist and academic (died 2019)
1937 – Ron Luciano , American baseball player and umpire (died 1995)
1938 – John Byner , American actor and comedian1938 – Leon Panetta , American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
1938 – S. Sivamaharajah , Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (died 2006)
1938 – Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn , British baron
1939 – Klaus Schmiegel , German chemist1940 – Karpal Singh , Malaysian lawyer and politician (died 2014)1940 – Muhammad Yunus , Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Al Downing , American baseball player and sportscaster1941 – Joseph Goguen , American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (died 2006)
1941 – David Johnston , Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor General of Canada
1942 – Chris Hani , South African politician (died 1993)1942 – Hans-Joachim Walde , German decathlete (died 2013)
1942 – Frank Zane , American professional bodybuilder and author
1943 – Jens Birkemose , Danish painter (died 2022)1943 – Donald Johanson , American paleontologist and academic
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Ken Buchanan , Scottish boxer (died 2023)1945 – Jane Harman , American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California)[ 27]
1945 – David Knights , English bass player and producer
1945 – Raul Seixas , Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1989)
1945 – Türkan Şoray , Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter
1946 – Robert Asprin , American soldier and author (died 2008)1946 – Bruce Davison , American actor and director
1946 – David Duckham , English rugby player (died 2023)
1946 – Robert Xavier Rodríguez , American classical composer
1946 – Jaime Guzmán , Chilean lawyer and politician (died 1991)
1946 – Gilda Radner , American actress and comedian (died 1989)
1947 – Mark Helprin , American novelist and journalist1947 – Laura Tyson , American economist and academic
1948 – Kathy Bates , American actress1948 – Sergei Bodrov , Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1948 – Deborah Moggach , English author and screenwriter
1948 – Daniel Wegner , Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2013)
1949 – Don Baylor , American baseball player and coach (died 2017)1950 – Philip Fowke , English pianist and educator1950 – Mauricio Rojas , Chilean-Swedish economist and politician
1950 – Chris Speier , American baseball player and coach
1951 – Mick Cronin , Australian rugby league player and coach1951 – Mark Shand , English conservationist and author (died 2014)
1951 – Lalla Ward , English actress and author
1952 – Enis Batur , Turkish poet and author1952 – Pietro Mennea , Italian sprinter and politician (died 2013)
1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin , French physician and author
1954 – A. A. Gill , Scottish author and critic (died 2016)1954 – Alice Krige , South African actress
1955 – Shirley Cheriton , British actress1956 – Amira Hass , Israeli journalist and author1956 – Noel Mugavin , Australian footballer and coach
1957 – Lance Nethery , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1957 – Georgi Parvanov , Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria
1957 – Mike Skinner , American race car driver
1957 – Jim Spanarkel , American basketball player and sportscaster
1958 – Donna Edwards , American lawyer and politician1958 – Félix Gray , Tunisian-French singer-songwriter
1959 – Clint Boon , English singer and keyboard player1959 – John Shelley , British illustrator
1960 – John Elway , American football player and manager1960 – Roland Melanson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961 – Kurt Eichenwald , American journalist[ 28] 1961 – Jeff Malone , American basketball player and coach
1962 – Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu , Romanian long jumper1962 – Artur Hajzer , Polish mountaineer (died 2013)
1962 – Ann-Louise Skoglund , Swedish hurdler
1963 – Peter Baynham , Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter1963 – Charlie Clouser , American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1964 – Christina Ashcroft , Canadian sport shooter[ 29] 1964 – Mark Grace , American baseball player and sportscaster
1964 – Bernie McCahill , New Zealand rugby player
1964 – Dan Stains , Australian rugby league player and coach
1964 – Steve Williamson , English saxophonist and composer
1965 – Jessica Hecht , American actress1965 – Tiaan Strauss , South African rugby player
1966 – Peeter Allik , Estonian painter and illustrator (died 2019)1966 – Bobby Bare Jr. , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – John Cusack , American actor and screenwriter
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson , American actress
1967 – Leona Aglukkaq , Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health 1967 – Gil Bellows , Canadian actor and producer
1967 – Zhong Huandi , Chinese runner
1967 – Lars Riedel , German discus thrower
1968 – Chayanne , Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor1969 – Tichina Arnold , American actress and singer1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat , Swiss footballer
1969 – Fabrizio Mori , Italian hurdler
1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed , Pakistani cricketer and coach1970 – Tom Merritt , American journalist
1970 – Mike White , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso , Italian footballer1971 – Fabien Barthez , French footballer
1971 – Bobby Hurley , American basketball player and coach
1971 – Ron Mahay , American baseball player and scout
1971 – Elon Musk , South African-born American entrepreneur[ 30]
1971 – Aileen Quinn , American actress and singer
1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu , Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic1972 – Chris Leslie , English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
1972 – Geeta Tripathee , Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
1972 – Alessandro Nivola , American actor
1973 – Adrián Annus , Hungarian hammer thrower1973 – Corey Koskie , Canadian baseball player
1974 – Rob Dyrdek , American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and reality television star1975 – Jon Nödtveidt , Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (died 2006)1976 – Shinobu Asagoe , Japanese tennis player1976 – Seth Wescott , American snowboarder[ 31]
1977 – Chris Spurling , American baseball player1977 – Mark Stoermer , American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1977 – Harun Tekin , Turkish singer and guitarist
1978 – Simon Larose , Canadian tennis player1979 – Felicia Day , American actress and writer[ 32] 1979 – Randy McMichael , American football player
1979 – Florian Zeller , French author and playwright
1980 – Jevgeni Novikov , Estonian footballer1981 – Savage , New Zealand rapper1981 – Michael Crafter , Australian singer-songwriter
1981 – Guillermo Martínez , Cuban javelin thrower
1981 – Brandon Phillips , American baseball player
1982 – Ibrahim Camejo , Cuban long jumper1985 – Phil Bardsley , English footballer1985 – Colt Hynes , American baseball player
1986 – Kellie Pickler , American singer-songwriter1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė , Lithuanian hurdler1987 – Terrence Williams , American basketball player
1989 – Jason Clark , Australian rugby league player1989 – Andrew Fifita , Australian rugby league player
1989 – David Fifita , Australian rugby league player
1989 – Julia Zlobina , Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater
1989 – Markiplier , American internet personality
1989 – Nicole Rottmann , Austrian tennis player
1991 – Seohyun , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress[ 33] 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne , Belgian footballer
1991 – Kang Min-hyuk , South Korean singer, drummer, and actor[ 34]
1992 – Oscar Hiljemark , Swedish footballer1992 – Elaine Thompson , Jamaican sprinter[ 35]
1993 – Bradley Beal , American basketball player1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan [ 36] 1996 – Donna Vekić , Croatian tennis player[ 37] 1996 – Larissa Werbicki , Canadian rower[ 38]
1997 – Tadasuke Makino , Japanese racing driver[ 39] 1997 – Shakur Stevenson , American boxer[ 40]
1999 – Markéta Vondroušová , Czech tennis player[ 41] 2002 – Marta Kostyuk , Ukrainian tennis player[ 42] 2005 – Tom Bischof , German footballer[ 43] 2005 – Pio Esposito , Italian footballer[ 44]
Deaths
Pre-1600
202 – Yuan Shao , Chinese warlord548 – Theodora I , Byzantine empress572 – Alboin , King of the Lombards [ 45] 683 – Leo II , pope of the Catholic Church (born 611)767 – Paul I , pope of the Catholic Church (born 700)975 – Cyneweard , bishop of Wells1031 – Taira no Tadatsune , Japanese governor1061 – Floris I , count of Holland1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky , Russian Grand Prince (born 1111)1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony , (born 1156)1194 – Xiao Zong , Chinese emperor (born 1127)1385 – Andronikos IV , Byzantine emperor (born 1348)1497 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley , English rebel leader (born c. 1463)1575 – Yonekura Shigetsugu , Japanese samurai1586 – Primož Trubar , Slovenian author and reformer (born 1508)1598 – Abraham Ortelius , Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527)
1607 – Domenico Fontana , Italian architect (born 1543)1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (born 1665)1757 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover , queen consort of Frederick William I (born 1687)[ citation needed ] 1798 – John Henry Colclough , Irish revolutionary (born c. 1769)1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (born 1755)1834 – Joseph Bové , Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (born 1784)1836 – James Madison , American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (born 1751)1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro , American soldier and hunter (born 1846)1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure , French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (born 1798)1889 – Maria Mitchell , American astronomer and academic (born 1818)1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis , Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (born 1810)
1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (born 1841)1914 – Sophie , duchess of Hohenberg (born 1868)[ 46] 1914 – Franz Ferdinand , archduke of Austria (born 1863)
1915 – Victor Trumper , Australian cricketer (born 1877)1917 – Ștefan Luchian , Romanian painter and educator (born 1868)1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)1925 – Georgina Febres-Cordero , Venezuelan nun (born 1861)[ 47] 1925 – Henry C. Berghoff , German-American politician (born 1856)[ 48] 1929 – Edward Carpenter , English poet and philosopher (born 1844)1932 – Urania Marquard Olsen , Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director (born 1856)[ 49] 1936 – Alexander Berkman , American author and activist (born 1870)1939 – Douglas H. Johnston , governor of the Chickasaw Nation (born 1856)1940 – Italo Balbo , Italian air marshal and politician (born 1896)1944 – Friedrich Dollmann , German general (born 1882)1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu , Turkish journalist (born 1879)1947 – Stanislav Kostka Neumann , Czech writer, poet and journalist (born 1875)1960 – Jake Swirbul , American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (born 1898)1962 – Mickey Cochrane , American baseball player and manager (born 1903)1962 – Cy Morgan , American baseball player (born 1878)
1965 – Red Nichols , American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (born 1905)1966 – Mehmet Fuat Köprülü , Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1890)1971 – Franz Stangl , Austrian SS officer (born 1908)1974 – Vannevar Bush , American engineer and academic (born 1890)1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis , Greek architect (born 1913)1975 – Rod Serling , American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
1976 – Ruby McKim , American quilter (born 1891)[ 50] 1978 – Clifford Dupont , English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (born 1905)1980 – José Iturbi , Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1895)1981 – Terry Fox , Canadian runner and activist (born 1958)1983 – Alf Francis , German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (born 1918)1984 – Yigael Yadin , Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (born 1917)1985 – Lynd Ward , American author and illustrator (born 1905)[ 51] 1989 – Joris Ivens , Dutch journalist, director, and producer (born 1898)1992 – Guy Nève , Belgian racing driver (born 1955)1992 – Mikhail Tal , Latvian chess player (born 1936)
1995 – Petri Walli , Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1969)1999 – Vere Bird , first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1910)[ 52] 2000 – Nils Poppe , Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)2001 – Mortimer J. Adler , American philosopher and author (born 1902)2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon , American journalist and author (born 1927)2004 – Anthony Buckeridge , English author (born 1912)2005 – Brenda Howard , American activist (born 1946)2005 – Michael P. Murphy , American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1976)
2006 – Jim Baen , American publisher, founded Baen Books (born 1943)2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell , English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1919)
2006 – George Unwin , English pilot and commander (born 1913)
2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey , American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1913)2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa , Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919)
2009 – A. K. Lohithadas , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)2009 – Billy Mays , American TV personality (born 1958)
2010 – Robert Byrd , American lawyer and politician (born 1917)2012 – Richard Isay , American psychiatrist and author (born 1934)2012 – Leontine T. Kelly , American bishop (born 1920)
2012 – Robert Sabatier , French author and poet (born 1923)
2012 – Doris Sams , American baseball player (born 1927)
2013 – Ted Hood , American sailor and architect (born 1927)2013 – Tamás Katona , Hungarian historian and politician (born 1932)
2013 – Kenneth Minogue , New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (born 1930)
2013 – F. D. Reeve , American author and academic (born 1928)
2013 – David Rubitsky , American sergeant (born 1917)
2014 – Seymour Barab , American cellist and composer (born 1921)2014 – Jim Brosnan , American baseball player (born 1929)
2014 – On Kawara , Japanese painter (born 1933)
2014 – Meshach Taylor , American actor (born 1947)
2015 – Jack Carter , American actor and comedian (born 1922)2015 – Jope Seniloli , Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (born 1939)
2015 – Wally Stanowski , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
2016 – Scotty Moore , American guitarist (born 1931)2016 – Pat Summitt , American women's college basketball head coach (born 1952)
2016 – Buddy Ryan , American football coach (born 1931)
2018 – Harlan Ellison , American writer (born 1934)[ 53] 2023 – Lowell Weicker , French-American politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (born 1931)[ 54] 2024 – Orlando Cepeda , Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1937)[ 55] 2024 – Audrey Flack , American artist (born 1931)[ 56]
2024 – Mohamed Osman Jawari , Somali attorney and politician, 12th Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia (born 1945)[ 57]
2025 – Aminu Dantata , Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (born 1931)[ 58] 2025 – D. Wayne Lukas , American horse trainer (born 1935)[ 59]
2025 – Dave Parker , American baseball player and coach (born 1951)[ 60]
2026 – Wilford Lloyd Baumes , American screenwriter and television producer (born 1939)[ 61]
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