July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 174 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- 988 – Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
- 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
- 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
- 1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
- 1584 – William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1645 – English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
- 1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1789 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
- 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
- 1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
- 1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
- 1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
- 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- 1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
- 1913 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
- 1921 – Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- 1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- 1940 – World War II: the Vichy government is established in France.
- 1940 – World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
- 1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
- 1942 – Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
- 1946 – Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
- 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1968 – Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1971 – Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
- 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1977 – Alexandr Zagirnyak and Gennadi Sheludko hijack a Tupolev Tu-134 en route from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and try to force the pilot to fly to Sweden. The plane lands in Helsinki instead. The hijackers surrender the next day and are returned to the Soviet Union.
- 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
- 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
- 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2003 – A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
- 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2006 – Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
- 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
- 2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
Births
- 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)
- 1452 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
- 1509 – John Calvin, French theologian and pastor (d. 1564)
- 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
- 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
- 1614 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish statesman (d. 1686)
- 1625 – Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
- 1638 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- 1666 – John Ernest Grabe, German-Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
- 1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1682 – Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German missionary (d. 1719)
- 1711 – Princess Amelia of Great Britain (d. 1783)
- 1723 – William Blackstone, English politician and jurist (d. 1780)
- 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)
- 1792 – George Mifflin Dallas, American politician (d. 1864)
- 1802 – Robert Chambers, Scottish author and journalist (d. 1871)
- 1804 – Emma Smith, American religious reformer (d. 1879)
- 1809 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
- 1830 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (d. 1903)
- 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897)
- 1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter (d. 1903)
- 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (d. 1880)
- 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
- 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
- 1864 – Austin Chapman, Australian politician (d. 1926)
- 1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
- 1874 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
- 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
- 1883 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
- 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978)
- 1895 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
- 1896 – Thérèse Casgrain, French-Canadian politician (d. 1981)
- 1897 – Jack Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931)
- 1897 – Karl Plagge, German nazi officer (d. 1957)
- 1898 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975)
- 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
- 1899 – Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
- 1900 – Mitchell Parish, American songwriter (d. 1993)
- 1900 – Sampson Sievers, Russian priest (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
- 1903 – John Wyndham, English author (d. 1969)
- 1905 – Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (d. 2002)
- 1905 – Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
- 1905 – Wolfram Sievers, German nazi physician (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
- 1909 – Donald Sinclair, English hotel owner and manager (d. 1981)
- 1913 – Salvador Espriu, Catalan poet (d. 1985)
- 1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Don Herbert, American television host and producer (d. 2007)
- 1917 – Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1921 – Harvey Ball, American artist, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
- 1921 – Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1921 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer
- 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Jean Kerr, American author (d. 2003)
- 1923 – John Bradley, American navy corpsman, one of the people raising the flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Earl Hamner, Jr., American writer and producer
- 1923 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian writer (d. 1987)
- 1924 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach
- 1924 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
- 1927 – Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
- 1927 – David Dinkins, American politician, 106th Mayor of New York City
- 1928 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli scholar (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian race car driver and manufacturer (d. 2003)
- 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician
- 1930 – Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Susan Cummings, German-American actress.
- 1931 – Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1931 – Jerry Herman, American composer
- 1931 – Julian May, American writer
- 1931 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer
- 1932 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver
- 1933 – Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (d. 1989)
- 1934 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Tura Satana, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1936 – Selwyn Baptiste, Trinidadian steelband educator (d. 2012)
- 1938 – Paul Andreu, French architect, designed the Osaka Maritime Museum and the National Grand Theater of China
- 1938 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player (d. 1972)
- 1939 – Phil Kelly, Irish footballer (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, English economist and politician
- 1940 – Helen Donath, American soprano
- 1940 – Tom Farmer, Scottish businessman
- 1940 – Brian Priestley, English pianist and arranger
- 1941 – Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
- 1941 – David G. Hartwell, American editor and anthologist
- 1941 – Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor
- 1942 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell, and Elf) (d. 2010)
- 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet astronaut
- 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
- 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor
- 1945 – Hal McRae American baseball player
- 1945 – Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
- 1945 – John Motson, English sportscaster
- 1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré, French director
- 1945 – Virginia Wade, English tennis player
- 1946 – Sue Lyon, American actress
- 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1948 – Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949 – Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer
- 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer
- 1949 – Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author (The Greg Kihn Band)
- 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (McFadden & Whitehead) (d. 2004)
- 1949 – Winston Rekert, Canadian actor (d. 2012)
- 1950 – Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Greek politician
- 1951 – Phyllis Smith, American actress
- 1951 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1952 – Ludmilla Tourischeva, Russian gymnast
- 1952 – Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Max Webster)
- 1952 – Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
- 1953 – Zoogz Rift, musician, composer and wrestling personality (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Rik Emmett, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Triumph and Strung-Out Troubadours)
- 1954 – Tommy Bowden, American football coach
- 1954 – Andre Dawson, American baseball player
- 1954 – Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and musician (Pet Shop Boys and Electronic)
- 1956 – Tom McClintock, American politician
- 1957 – Cindy Sheehan, American activist
- 1958 – Béla Fleck, American musician, songwriter, and composer (Sparrow Quartet, New Grass Revival, Strength in Numbers, and Trio!)
- 1958 – Fiona Shaw, Irish actress
- 1959 – Ellen Kuras, American cinematographer
- 1960 – Jeff Bergman, American voice actor
- 1961 – Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- 1963 – Richard Waites, English actor
- 1964 – Urban Meyer, American football player and coach
- 1964 – Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
- 1965 – Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
- 1965 – Alec Mapa, Filipino-American actor and comedian
- 1965 – Scott McCarron, American golfer
- 1965 – Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 – Gina Bellman, English actress
- 1966 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1966 – Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer
- 1967 – Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Tom Meents, American monster truck driver
- 1967 – Silvetty Montilla, Brazilian drag queen performer
- 1968 – Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian runner
- 1968 – Jonathan Gilbert, American actor
- 1969 – Jamie Glover, English actor
- 1969 – Gale Harold, American actor
- 1969 – Alexandra Hedison, American actress
- 1969 – Jonas Kaufmann, German tenor
- 1969 – Vicky Morales, Filipino journalist
- 1970 – Adam Hills, Australian comedian and actor
- 1970 – Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter and musician (Rascal Flatts)
- 1970 – Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer (Take That)
- 1970 – John Simm, English actor
- 1970 – Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
- 1971 – Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971 – Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer
- 1972 – Peter Serafinowicz, English comedian and actor
- 1972 – Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
- 1972 – Tilo Wolff, German singer-songwriter and pianist (Lacrimosa)
- 1973 – Annie Mumolo, American actress
- 1974 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
- 1975 – Andrew Firestone, American businessman
- 1975 – Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver
- 1975 – Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
- 1976 – Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist (Deadsy)
- 1976 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- 1976 – Edmílson Gomes, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Adrian Grenier, American actor
- 1976 – Brendon Lade, Australian footballer
- 1976 – Lars Ricken, German footballer
- 1977 – Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler
- 1977 – Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter and musician (Brand New and Taking Back Sunday)
- 1977 – Gwendoline Yeo, American actress
- 1979 – Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
- 1980 – Han Eun-jeong, South Korean actress
- 1980 – Thomas Ian Nicholas, American actor
- 1980 – Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Elfonía and Stream of Passion)
- 1980 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
- 1980 – James Rolfe, American filmmaker and actor
- 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1982 – Alex Arrowsmith, American musician and producer (The Shaky Hands)
- 1982 – Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
- 1983 – Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
- 1983 – Matthew Egan, Australian rules footballer
- 1983 – José Joelson Inácio, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Kim Heechul, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior and Super Junior-T)
- 1984 – María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian model, Miss World 2004
- 1984 – Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
- 1985 – B.J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mario Gómez, German footballer
- 1985 – Park Chu-Young, South Korean footballer
- 1986 – Simenona Martinez, American actress
- 1987 – Brian Belo, English-Nigerian actor
- 1988 – Antonio Brown, American football player
- 1988 – Heather Hemmens, American actress
- 1991 – María Chacón, Mexican actress
- 1991 – Danielle Horvat, Australian actress
- 1991 – Atsuko Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
- 1992 – Larissa Marolt, Austrian model
- 1993 – Carlon Jeffery, American actor
- 1998 – Haley Pullos, American actress
Deaths
- 138 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
- 649 – Emperor Taizong of Tang (b. 599)
- 1099 – El Cid, Castilian military leader, and diplomat (b. 1044)
- 1103 – Eric I of Denmark (b. 1060)
- 1290 – Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)
- 1460 – Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military commander (b. 1402)
- 1480 – René of Anjou (b. 1410)
- 1559 – Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1584 – William the Silent, French prince (b. 1533)
- 1590 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
- 1594 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (b. 1554)
- 1603 – Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish bishop (b. 1538)
- 1621 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, Roman military commander (b. 1571)
- 1653 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
- 1680 – Louis Moréri, French priest and encyclopedist (b. 1643)
- 1683 – François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)
- 1686 – John Fell, English clergyman (b. 1625)
- 1776 – Richard Peters, English clergyman (b. 1704)
- 1794 – Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (d. 1754)
- 1806 – George Stubbs,English painter (b. 1724)
- 1848 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (b. 1777)
- 1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
- 1881 – Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and educator (b. 1812)
- 1884 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
- 1908 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
- 1920 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, English admiral (b. 1841)
- 1941 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (Red Hot Peppers) (b. 1890)
- 1950 – Richard Maury, American-Argentine engineer (b. 1882)
- 1954 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mafia boss (b. 1877)
- 1956 – Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1962 – Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
- 1963 – Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
- 1970 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
- 1971 – Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
- 1971 – George Kenner, German artist, made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a POW (b. 1888)
- 1972 – Lovie Austin, American pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1887)
- 1972 – Francis Gailey, Australian born American freestyle swimmer (b. 1882)
- 1978 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)
- 1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Asia Society (b. 1906)
- 1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
- 1980 – Joseph Krumgold, American writer (b. 1908)
- 1981 – Ken McElroy, American criminal and murder victim (b. 1936)
- 1985 – Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer, victim of the Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (b. 1950)
- 1986 – Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1987 – John H. Hammond, American record producer, critic, and actvist (b. 1910)
- 1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
- 2000 – Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
- 2002 – Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Evangelos Florakis, Greek military officer (b. 1943)
- 2003 – Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)
- 2003 – Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, English lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
- 2004 – Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1922)
- 2005 – A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)
- 2005 – Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
- 2005 – Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio personality (b. 1955)
- 2006 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel leader (b. 1965)
- 2007 – Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Pakistani cleric (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
- 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese director of the State Food and Drug Administration (b. 1944)
- 2008 – Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
- 2008 – Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (b. 1921)
- 2011 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
- 2012 – Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Maria Hawkins Ellington, American singer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Cheryll Heinze, American politician (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Peter Kyros, American politician (b. 1925)
- 2012 – Fritz Langanke, German SS lieutenant (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Pappu Yadav, Indian politician (b. 1962)
Holidays and observances
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