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Day of the year
May 3 is the 123rd day of the year (124th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 242 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1901 – The
Great Fire of 1901 begins in
Jacksonville, Florida .
1913 –
Raja Harishchandra , the first full-length Indian
feature film , is released, marking the beginning of the
Indian film industry .
1920 – A
Bolshevik coup fails in the
Democratic Republic of Georgia .
1921 –
Ireland is partitioned under British law by the
Government of Ireland Act 1920 , creating
Northern Ireland and
Southern Ireland .
1921 –
West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad
sales tax , but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1928 – The
Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
[4]
1939 – The
All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose .
1942 –
World War II :
Japanese naval troops
invade Tulagi Island in the
Solomon Islands during the first part of
Operation Mo that results in the
Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the
prison ships
Cap Arcona ,
Thielbek and
Deutschland by the
Royal Air Force in
Lübeck Bay .
1947 – New post-war
Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 – The
U.S. Supreme Court rules in
Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of
real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
[5]
1951 – London's
Royal Festival Hall opens with the
Festival of Britain .
1951 – The
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the
relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 –
Lieutenant Colonels
Joseph O. Fletcher and
William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the
North Pole .
1952 – The
Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the
CBS network.
1953 – Two men are rescued from a
semitrailer that crashed over the side of the
Pit River Bridge before it fell into the
Sacramento River . Amateur photographer
Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman.
[6]
1957 –
Walter O'Malley , the owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers , agrees to move the team from
Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
1963 – The police force in
Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and
responds with violent force to stop the "
Birmingham campaign " protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the
civil rights movement .
1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when
Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near
Dawson, Texas .
[7]
1971 –
Erich Honecker becomes
First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , remaining in power until 1989.
[8]
1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial
email (which would later become known as "
spam ") is sent by a
Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every
ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1979 –
Margaret Thatcher wins the
United Kingdom
general election .
[9] The following day, she becomes the first female
British Prime Minister .
1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on
Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 – A crash by
Bobby Allison at the
Talladega Superspeedway ,
Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead
NASCAR to develop the
restrictor plate for the following season both at
Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1999 – The southwestern portion of
Oklahoma City is devastated by an
F5 tornado , killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the
1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak . This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). In meteorology, the term “May 3” is synonymous with the F5 tornado.
[10]
1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the
Kargil War .
2000 – The sport of
geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a
GPS posted on
Usenet .
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the
U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in
1947 .
2006 –
Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the
Black Sea near
Sochi International Airport in
Sochi ,
Russia , killing 113 people.
[11]
2007 – The three-year-old British girl
Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
2015 – Two gunmen
launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in
Garland, Texas , which was held in response to the
Charlie Hebdo shooting .
2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in
Fort McMurray , Alberta, Canada as
a wildfire rips through the community , destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.
[12]
2023 – Nine students and a security guard are killed in the
Belgrade school shooting , the first attack of its kind in
Serbia .
[13]
Births
Pre-1600
490 –
K'an Joy Chitam I , ruler of
Palenque (d. 565)
612 –
Constantine III , Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
1238 –
Emilia Bicchieri , Italian saint (d. 1314)
1276 –
Louis, Count of Évreux , son of King
Philip III of France (d. 1319)
1415 –
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1495)
1428 –
Pedro González de Mendoza , Spanish cardinal (d. 1495)
1446 –
Margaret of York (d. 1503)
[14]
1461 –
Raffaele Riario , Italian cardinal (d. 1521)
1469 –
Niccolò Machiavelli , Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527)
[15]
1479 –
Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552)
1481 –
Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez , Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. 1534)
1536 –
Stephan Praetorius , German theologian (d. 1603)
1601–1900
1632 –
Catherine of St. Augustine , French-Canadian nurse and candidate for sainthood, founded the
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (d. 1668)
1662 –
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , German architect, designed the
Pillnitz Castle (d. 1736)
1678 –
Amaro Pargo , Spanish corsair (d. 1747)
1695 –
Henri Pitot , French physicist and engineer, invented the
Pitot tube (d. 1771)
1729 –
Florian Leopold Gassmann , Czech composer (d. 1774)
1761 –
August von Kotzebue , German playwright and author (d. 1819)
1764 –
Princess Élisabeth of France (d. 1794)
[16]
1768 –
Charles Tennant , Scottish chemist and businessman (d. 1838)
1783 –
José de la Riva Agüero , Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)
[17]
1814 –
Adams George Archibald , Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)
1826 –
Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)
1844 –
Richard D'Oyly Carte , English talent agent and composer (d. 1901)
1849 –
Jacob Riis , Danish-American journalist and photographer (d. 1914)
1849 –
Bernhard von Bülow , German soldier and politician,
Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1854 –
George Gore , American baseball player and manager (d. 1933)
1859 –
August Herrmann , American executive in
Major League Baseball (d.1931)
1860 –
Vito Volterra , Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
1867 –
Andy Bowen , American boxer (d. 1894)
1867 –
J. T. Hearne , English cricketer (d. 1944)
1870 –
Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1871 –
Emmett Dalton , American criminal (d. 1937)
1873 –
Pavlo Skoropadskyi , German-Ukrainian general and politician,
Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1945)
1874 –
François Coty , French businessman and publisher, founded
Coty (d. 1934)
1874 –
Vagn Walfrid Ekman , Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)
[18]
1877 –
Karl Abraham , German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1925)
1879 –
Fergus McMaster , Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded
Qantas (d. 1950)
1886 –
Marcel Dupré , French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1887 –
Marika Kotopouli , Greek actress (d. 1954)
1889 –
Beulah Bondi , American actress (d. 1981)
1889 –
Gottfried Fuchs , German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)
1891 –
Tadeusz Peiper , Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
1891 –
Eppa Rixey , American baseball pitcher (d. 1963)
1892 –
George Paget Thomson , English physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 –
Jacob Viner , Canadian-American economist and academic (d. 1970)
1893 –
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Georgian author (d. 1975)
1895 –
Cornelius Van Til , Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987)
1896 –
Karl Allmenröder , German soldier and pilot (d. 1917)
1896 –
V. K. Krishna Menon , Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician,
Indian Minister of Defence (d. 1974)
1896 –
Dodie Smith , English author and playwright (d. 1990)
1897 –
William Joseph Browne , Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th
Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989)
1898 –
Septima Poinsette Clark , American educator and activist (d. 1987)
1898 –
Golda Meir , Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th
Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
[19]
1901–present
1902 –
Alfred Kastler , German-French physicist and poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1903 –
Bing Crosby , American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1905 –
Edmund Black , American hammer thrower (d. 1996)
1905 –
Werner Fenchel , German-Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1988)
1905 –
Red Ruffing , American baseball pitcher and coach (d. 1986)
1906 –
Mary Astor , American actress (d. 1987)
1906 –
René Huyghe , French historian and author (d. 1997)
1906 –
Anna Roosevelt Halsted , American journalist and author (d. 1975)
1906 –
Enrique Laguerre , Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2005)
1910 –
Norman Corwin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1912 –
Virgil Fox , American organist and composer (d. 1980)
1912 –
May Sarton , American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)
1913 –
William Inge , American playwright and novelist (d. 1973)
1914 –
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier , French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018))
[20]
1915 –
Stu Hart , Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded
Stampede Wrestling (d. 2003)
1915 –
Richard Lippold , American sculptor and academic (d. 2002)
1916 –
Léopold Simoneau , Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2006)
1917 –
Betty Comden , American screenwriter and librettist (d. 2006)
1917 –
George Gaynes , Finnish-American actor (d. 2016)
1917 –
Kiro Gligorov , Macedonian politician and first president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)
[21]
1918 –
Ted Bates , English footballer and manager (d. 2003)
1919 –
Traute Lafrenz , German member of the
White Rose resistance group (d. 2023)
[22]
1919 –
John Cullen Murphy , American soldier and illustrator (d. 2004)
1919 –
Pete Seeger , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)
1920 –
John Lewis , American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
1921 –
Sugar Ray Robinson , American boxer (d. 1989)
1922 –
Len Shackleton , English footballer and journalist (d. 2000)
1923 –
George Hadjinikos , Greek pianist, conductor, and educator (d. 2015)
1923 –
Ralph Hall , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2019)
1924 –
Yehuda Amichai , German-Israeli author and poet (d. 2000)
1924 –
Ken Tyrrell , English race car driver, founded
Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)
1925 –
Jean Séguy , French sociologist and author (d. 2007)
1926 –
Matt Baldwin , Canadian curler and engineer (d. 2023)
1928 –
Dave Dudley , American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1928 –
Jacques-Louis Lions , French mathematician (d. 2001)
1929 –
Denise Lor , American singer and actress (d. 2015)
1930 –
Juan Gelman , Argentinian poet and author (d. 2014)
1930 –
David Harrison , English chemist and academic (d. 2023)
1931 –
Vasily Rudenkov , Belarusian hammer thrower (d. 1982)
1931 –
Sait Maden , Turkish translator, poet, painter and graphic designer (d. 2013)
1932 –
Robert Osborne , American actor and historian (d. 2017)
1933 –
James Brown , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1933 –
Steven Weinberg , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1934 –
Henry Cooper , English boxer and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1934 –
Georges Moustaki , Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1934 –
Frankie Valli , American singer and actor
1935 –
Ron Popeil , American businessman, founded the
Ronco Company (d. 2021)
1937 –
Nélida Piñon , Brazilian author and academic
1938 –
Omar Abdel-Rahman , Egyptian terrorist (d. 2017)
1938 –
Chris Cannizzaro , American baseball player (d. 2016)
1938 –
Napoleon XIV , American singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2023)
1939 –
Jonathan Harvey , English composer and educator (d. 2012)
[23]
1940 –
David Koch , American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2019)
1940 –
Clemens Westerhof , Dutch footballer and manager
1941 –
Alexander Harley , English general
1941 –
Edward Malloy , American priest and academic
1942 –
Věra Čáslavská , Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016)
1942 –
Dave Marash , American journalist and sportscaster
1942 –
Butch Otter , American soldier and politician, 32nd
Governor of Idaho
1943 –
Yukio Hashi , Japanese singer and actor
1943 –
Jim Risch , American lawyer and politician, 31st
Governor of Idaho
1943 –
Vicente Saldivar , Mexican boxer (d. 1985)
1944 –
Peter Doyle , English bishop
1944 –
Pete Staples , English bass player
1945 –
Jörg Drehmel , German triple jumper and coach
1945 –
Davey Lopes , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1946 –
Norm Chow , American football player and coach
1946 –
Silvino Francisco , South African snooker player
1946 –
Greg Gumbel , American sportscaster
1947 –
Doug Henning , Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1948 –
Denis Cosgrove , British-American academic and geographer (d. 2008)
1948 –
Chris Mulkey , American actor
1949 –
Liam Donaldson , English physician and academic
1949 –
Ruth Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett , English academic and politician
1949 –
Ron Wyden , American academic and politician
1950 –
Mary Hopkin , Welsh singer-songwriter
1950 –
Dag Arnesen , Norwegian pianist and composer
1951 –
Alan Clayson , English singer-songwriter and journalist
1951 –
Christopher Cross , American singer-songwriter and producer
1951 –
Ashok Gehlot , Indian politician, 21st
Chief Minister of Rajasthan
1951 –
Tatyana Tolstaya , Russian author and publicist
1952 –
Chuck Baldwin , American pastor and politician
1952 –
Caitlin Clarke , American actress (d. 2004)
1952 –
Joseph W. Tobin , American cardinal
1953 –
Bruce Hall , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1953 –
Jake Hooker , Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2014)
1954 –
Angela Bofill , American singer-songwriter
1954 –
Jean-Marc Roberts , French author and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1955 –
Stephen D. M. Brown , British geneticist
1955 –
Colin Deans , Scottish rugby player
1955 –
David Hookes , Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2004)
1955 –
Seishirō Nishida , Japanese actor
1956 –
Marc Bellemare , Canadian lawyer and politician
1957 –
Alain Côté , Canadian ice hockey player
1957 –
Rod Langway , Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach
1958 –
Bill Sienkiewicz , American author and illustrator
1958 –
Sandi Toksvig , Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster
1959 –
David Ball , English keyboard player and producer
1959 –
Uma Bharti , Indian activist and politician, 16th
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
1959 –
Ben Elton , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1960 –
Kathy Smallwood-Cook , English sprinter and educator
1961 –
Steve McClaren , English footballer and manager
1961 –
David Vitter , American lawyer and politician
[24]
1961 –
Leyla Zana , Kurdish activist and politician
1962 –
Anders Graneheim , Swedish bodybuilder
1962 –
Stephan Martinière , French artist, cartoonist, and art director
[25]
1963 –
Jeff Hornacek , American basketball player and coach
1963 –
Mona Siddiqui , Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic
1964 –
Sterling Campbell , American drummer and songwriter
1964 –
Ron Hextall , Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1965 –
Ignatius Aphrem II , Syrian patriarch
1965 –
Mark Cousins , Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
1965 –
John Jensen , Danish footballer and coach
1965 –
Mikhail Prokhorov , Russian businessman
1966 –
Giorgos Agorogiannis , Greek footballer
1966 –
Frank Dietrich , German politician (d. 2011)
1967 –
Daniel Anderson , Australian rugby league coach and manager
1967 –
Kenneth Joel Hotz , Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
1968 –
Viliami Ofahengaue , Tongan-Australian rugby player
1971 –
Douglas Carswell , British politician, the first elected MP for the
UK Independence Party
[26]
1972 –
Steve Barclay , English lawyer and politician
1973 –
Jamie Baulch , Welsh sprinter and television host
1975 –
Willie Geist , American television journalist and host
1975 –
Christina Hendricks , American actress and model
[27]
1975 –
Sanath Nishantha , Sri Lankan politician (d. 2024)
[28]
1976 –
Jeff Halpern , American ice hockey player
1976 –
Brad Scott , Australian footballer and coach
1976 –
Chris Scott , Australian footballer and coach
1977 –
Eric Church , American country music singer-songwriter
[29]
1977 –
Ryan Dempster , Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
1977 –
Tyronn Lue , American basketball player and coach
1977 –
Maryam Mirzakhani , Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
1977 –
Ben Olsen , American soccer player and coach
1978 –
Christian Annan , Ghanaian-Hong Kong footballer
1978 –
Paul Banks , English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 –
Dai Tamesue , Japanese hurdler
1978 –
Lawrence Tynes , American football player
1979 –
Steve Mack , American wrestler
1979 –
Anastasiya Shvedova , Belarusian pole vaulter
1980 –
Zuzana Ondrášková , Czech tennis player
1982 –
Igor Olshansky , Ukrainian-American football player
1982 –
Nick Stavinoha , American baseball player
1983 –
Joseph Addai , American football player
1983 –
Romeo Castelen , Dutch footballer
1983 –
Jérôme Clavier , French pole vaulter
1983 –
Márton Fülöp , Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
1984 –
Jacqui Dunn , Australian artistic gymnast
[30]
1985 –
Ezequiel Lavezzi , Argentinian footballer
1985 –
Kadri Lehtla , Estonian biathlete
1985 –
Miko Mälberg , Estonian swimmer
1986 –
Moon Byung-woo , South Korean footballer
1986 –
Pom Klementieff , French actress
[31]
1987 –
Lina Grinčikaitė , Lithuanian sprinter
1987 –
Damla Sönmez , Turkish actress
[32]
1988 –
Ben Revere , American baseball player
1988 –
Paddy Holohan , Irish mixed martial artist
1989 –
Jesse Bromwich , New Zealand rugby league player
1989 –
Katinka Hosszú , Hungarian swimmer
[33]
1990 –
Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik , Romanian tennis player
[34]
1990 –
Brooks Koepka , American golfer
[35]
1990 –
James Pattinson , Australian cricketer
[36]
[37]
1991 –
Samuel Seo , South Korean musician
1992 –
Aaron Whitchurch , Australian rugby league player
1995 –
Ivan Bukavshin , Russian chess player (d. 2016)
1995 –
Anwar El Ghazi , Dutch footballer
[38]
1996 –
Mary Cain , American runner
[39]
1996 –
Alex Iwobi , Nigerian footballer
[40]
1996 –
Domantas Sabonis , Lithuanian-American basketball player
[41]
1996 –
Noah Munck , American actor
[42]
1997 –
Desiigner , American rapper
[43]
1997 –
Dwayne Haskins , American football player (d. 2022)
[44]
1997 –
Ivana Jorović , Serbian tennis player
[45]
2003 –
Elsa Jacquemot , French tennis player
[46]
Deaths
Pre-1600
678 –
Tōchi , Japanese princess
738 –
Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil , Mayan ruler (
ajaw )
1152 –
Matilda of Boulogne (b. 1105)
[47]
1270 –
Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)
[48]
1294 –
John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252)
1330 –
Alexios II Megas Komnenos ,
Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
1410 –
Antipope Alexander V
[49]
1481 –
Mehmed the Conqueror , Ottoman sultan (b. 1432)
1501 –
John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley , English Baron (b. 1463)
1524 –
Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent , English peer (b. 1481)
1534 –
Juana de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez , Spanish
Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1481)
1589 –
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)
1601–1900
1606 –
Henry Garnet , English priest and author (b. 1555)
1621 –
Elizabeth Bacon , English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)
1679 –
James Sharp , Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)
1693 –
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon , French courtier (b. 1607)
1704 –
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1644)
1724 –
John Leverett the Younger , American lawyer, academic, and politician (b. 1662)
1750 –
John Willison , Scottish minister and author (b. 1680)
1752 –
Samuel Ogle , English-American captain and politician, 5th
Governor of Restored Proprietary Government (b. 1692)
1758 –
Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1763 –
George Psalmanazar , French-English author (b. 1679)
1764 –
Francesco Algarotti , Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1712)
1779 –
John Winthrop , American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714)
1793 –
Martin Gerbert , German historian and theologian (b. 1720)
1839 –
Ferdinando Paer , Italian composer (b. 1771)
1856 –
Adolphe Adam , French composer and critic (b. 1803)
1856 –
Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis , Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
1882 –
Leonidas Smolents , Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
[50]
1901–present
1910 –
Howard Taylor Ricketts , American pathologist (b. 1871)
1916 –
Tom Clarke , Irish rebel (b. 1858)
1916 –
Thomas MacDonagh , Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
1916 –
Patrick Pearse , Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
1918 –
Charlie Soong , Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
1919 –
Elizabeth Almira Allen , American educator (b. 1854)
1921 –
Théodore Pilette , Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)
1925 –
Clément Ader , French engineer, designed the
Ader Avion III (b. 1841)
1932 –
Charles Fort , American journalist and author (b. 1874)
1935 –
Jessie Willcox Smith , American
illustrator (b. 1863)
1939 –
Madeleine Desroseaux , French author and poet (b. 1873)
1942 –
Thorvald Stauning , Danish politician, 24th
Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 –
Harry Miller , American engineer (b. 1875)
1948 –
Ernst Tandefelt , Finnish assassin of
Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
1949 –
Fanny Walden , English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)
1958 –
Frank Foster , English cricketer (b. 1889)
1969 –
Zakir Husain , Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
1970 –
Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk , Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)
1972 –
Kenneth Bailey , Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)
1972 –
Emil Breitkreutz , American runner and coach (b. 1883)
1972 –
Bruce Cabot , American actor (b. 1904)
1978 –
Bill Downs , American journalist (b. 1914)
1981 –
Nargis , Indian actress (b. 1929)
[51]
1986 –
Robert Alda , American actor (b. 1914)
1987 –
Dalida , Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (b. 1933)
[52]
1988 –
Lev Pontryagin , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)
1989 –
Christine Jorgensen , American
trans woman (b. 1926)
1991 –
Jerzy Kosiński , Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1992 –
George Murphy , American actor, dancer, and politician (b. 1902)
1996 –
Dimitri Fampas , Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)
1996 –
Alex Kellner , American baseball player (b. 1924)
1996 –
Jack Weston , American actor (b. 1924)
1996 –
Keith Daniel Williams , American rapist and triple murderer (b. 1947)
[53]
1997 –
Sébastien Enjolras , French race car driver (b. 1976)
1997 –
Narciso Yepes , Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927)
1998 –
Gene Raymond , American actor (b. 1908)
1999 –
Joe Adcock , American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
1999 –
Steve Chiasson , Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1999 –
Godfrey Evans , English cricketer (b. 1920)
2000 –
Júlia Báthory , Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
2000 –
John Joseph O'Connor , American cardinal (b. 1920)
2002 –
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , English politician,
First Secretary of State (b. 1910)
2002 –
Yevgeny Svetlanov , Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)
2003 –
Suzy Parker , American model and actress (b. 1932)
2004 –
Ken Downing , English race car driver (b. 1917)
2004 –
Darrell Johnson , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1928)
2006 –
Karel Appel , Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)
2006 –
Pramod Mahajan , Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 –
Earl Woods , American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)
2007 –
Warja Honegger-Lavater , Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 –
Wally Schirra , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 –
Knock Yokoyama , Japanese politician (b. 1932)
2008 –
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo , Spanish engineer and politician,
Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
2009 –
Renée Morisset , Canadian pianist (b. 1928)
2009 –
Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar , Indian author and critic (b. 1931)
2010 –
Roy Carrier , American accordion player (b. 1947)
2010 –
Peter O'Donnell , English soldier and author (b. 1920)
2010 –
Guenter Wendt , German-American engineer (b. 1923)
2011 –
Jackie Cooper , American actor, television director, producer and executive (b. 1922)
2011 –
Sergo Kotrikadze , Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936)
2011 –
Thanasis Veggos , Greek actor and director (b. 1927)
2012 –
Jorge Illueca , Panamanian politician, 30th
President of Panama (b. 1918)
2012 –
Felix Werder , German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1922)
2013 –
Joe Astroth , American baseball player (b. 1922)
2013 –
Herbert Blau , American engineer and academic (b. 1926)
2013 –
Cedric Brooks , Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1943)
2013 –
Keith Carter , American swimmer and soldier (b. 1924)
2013 –
Brad Drewett , Australian tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1958)
2013 –
David Morris Kern , American pharmacist, co-invented
Orajel (b. 1909)
2013 –
Curtis Rouse , American football player (b. 1960)
2013 –
Branko Vukelić , Croatian politician, 11th
Minister of Defence for Croatia (b. 1958)
2014 –
Gary Becker , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
2014 –
Francisco Icaza , Mexican painter (b. 1930)
2014 –
Jim Oberstar , American educator and politician (b. 1934)
2015 –
Revaz Chkheidze , Georgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2015 –
Danny Jones , Welsh rugby player (b. 1986)
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2015 –
Warren Smith , American golfer and coach (b. 1915)
2016 –
Ian Deans , Canadian politician (b. 1937)
2016 –
Jadranka Stojaković ,
Yugoslav singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2017 –
Daliah Lavi , Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)
2020 –
Victoria Barbă , Moldovan animated film director (b. 1926)
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2021 –
Lloyd Price , American R&B vocalist (b. 1933)
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