May 18
May 18 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonadwo Armenian 2 Margach 1475 Aztec Ochpaniztli 8, 12 Cōzcacuāuhtli Babylonian 30 Nisanu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Beteng, Menala, Keliwon, Aryang, Coma of Wariga, Yama, Ogan, Suka Bengali 4 Joishtho , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Water Dragon ・Net Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 4 , Day 2Lixia , 3 days until Xiaoman )Common Era 18 May 2026 CE Coptic 10 Pashons , AM 1742Egyptian 2 Phaophi , 2775 NE Ethiopian 10 Genbot, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Nonidi de Floréal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 18 May , AD 2026 Hebrew 2 Sivan , AM 5786Omer 46 Hindu Rohiṇi ・Atigaṇḍa Jyeṣṭha , 1948 SE Dvitīyā , Śukla pakṣa of Adhika Jyeṣṭha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,713 Icelandic Mánudagur, 26 Harpa 2026 Islamic 1 Dhu al-Hijjah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W21-1 Japanese 2 Uzuki , Reiwa 8Rikka , 3 days until Shōman ) Julian 5 May , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461179 Korean 2 Baemdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.10.16 9 Zip , 12 Cib Roman ante diem III Nonas Maias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 28 Ordibehesht , SH 1405 Tibetan 2 sa ga, me pho rta
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Day of the year
May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 227 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople .872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome , at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I .1012 – Pope Benedict VIII begins his papacy following the death of his predecessor Pope Sergius IV earlier that month.1096 – First Crusade : Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany .1152 – The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine . He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England .1268 – The Principality of Antioch , a crusader state , falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch .1291 – Fall of Acre , the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land .1302 – Bruges Matins , the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake , General Lan Yu leads a Ming army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür , the Khan of Northern Yuan .1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela .1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta .1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd 's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe .1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts , John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts .1652 – Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.1695 – The 1695 Linfen earthquake in Shannxi, Qing dynasty causes extreme damage and kills at least 52,000 people.1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France .1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick ), Canada, after leaving the United States.1794 – Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition .1803 – Napoleonic Wars : The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate .1811 – Battle of Las Piedras : The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas .1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval .1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland .1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung ) in Frankfurt , Germany.1860 – United States presidential election : Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward , who later becomes the United States Secretary of State .1863 – American Civil War : Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant begin the Siege of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign in order to take full control of the Mississippi River .1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson separate but equal " doctrine is constitutional.1896 – Khodynka Tragedy : A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga .1912 – The first Indian film , Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne , is released in Mumbai .1917 – World War I : The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription .1922 – Seamus Woods and Roger McCorley lead an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast.1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California .1927 – The Bath School disaster : Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Bath Township , Michigan .1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among its first national universities.
1933 – New Deal : President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority .1944 – World War II : Battle of Monte Cassino : Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino .1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union .
1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking .1953 – Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier .1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom , the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War , ends.1962 – The French government and representatives of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic reach a settlement to end the Algerian war in the Évian Accords .1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria .1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 10 is launched.1972 – During approach to Kharkiv International Airport , Aeroflot Flight 1491 crashes near Ruska Lozova , killing all 112 aboard.1973 – Aeroflot Flight 109 is hijacked mid-flight and the aircraft is subsequently destroyed when the hijacker's bomb explodes, killing all 82 people on board.1974 – Nuclear weapons testing : Under project Smiling Buddha , India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so .1977 – Likud party wins the 1977 Israeli legislative election , with Menachem Begin , its founder, as the sixth Prime Minister of Israel .1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington , United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.1980 – Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
1980 – Rioting spreads to Miami's mostly African-American neighborhoods of Overtown and Liberty City following the previous day's courthouse protests.
1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland .1993 – Riots in Nørrebro , Copenhagen , caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum . Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators.1994 – Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip , ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra .2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.2009 – The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government , ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.2015 – At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar .2018 – A school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas kills ten people.2018 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 crashes in Santiago de las Vegas after takeoff from José Martí International Airport in Havana , Cuba, killing 112 of the 113 people on board.
2019 – United States presidential election : Joe Biden launches his presidential campaign .2026 – A shooting carried out by two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego results in the deaths of five people, including the perpetrators.Births
1631 – Stanislaus Papczyński , Polish priest and saint (died 1701)1662 – George Smalridge , English bishop (died 1719)1692 – (O.S. ) Joseph Butler , English bishop, theologian, and apologist (died 1752)1711 – Roger Joseph Boscovich , Ragusan physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1787)1777 – John George Children , English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (died 1852)1778 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , Irish soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Austria (died 1854)1785 – John Wilson , Scottish author and critic (died 1854)1797 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (died 1854)1822 – Mathew Brady , American photographer and journalist (died 1896)1824 – Wilhelm Hofmeister , German botanist (died 1877)1835 – Charles N. Sims , American Methodist preacher and 3rd chancellor of Syracuse University (died 1908)1850 – Oliver Heaviside , English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (died 1925)1851 – James Budd , American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (died 1908)1851 – Simon Kahquados , Potawatomi political activist (died 1930)
1852 – Gertrude Käsebier , American photographer (died 1934)1854 – Bernard Zweers , Dutch composer and educator (died 1924)1855 – Francis Bellamy , American minister and author (died 1931)1862 – Josephus Daniels , American publisher and politician, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1948)1867 – Minakata Kumagusu , Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist (died 1941)1868 – Nicholas II of Russia (died 1918)1869 – Lucy Beaumont , English-American actress (died 1937)1871 – Denis Horgan , Irish shot putter and weight thrower (died 1922)1872 – Bertrand Russell , British mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)1876 – Hermann Müller , German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (died 1931)1878 – Johannes Terwogt , Dutch rower (died 1977)1882 – Babe Adams , American baseball player, manager, and journalist (died 1968)1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra , Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (died 1974)1883 – Walter Gropius , German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (died 1969)
1886 – Jeanie MacPherson , American actress and screenwriter (died 1946)1888 – (O.S.) Hanna Barysevich , the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Records 1889 – Thomas Midgley Jr. , American chemist and engineer (died 1944)1891 – Rudolf Carnap , German-American philosopher and academic (died 1970)1892 – Ezio Pinza , Italian-American actor and singer (died 1957)1895 – Augusto César Sandino , Nicaraguan rebel leader (died 1934)1896 – Eric Backman , Swedish runner (died 1965)1897 – Frank Capra , Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1991)1898 – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel , Turkish poet, author, and playwright (died 1973)1901 – Henri Sauguet , French composer (died 1989)1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
1902 – Meredith Willson , American playwright and composer (died 1984)1904 – Jacob K. Javits , American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General (died 1986)1904 – Shunryū Suzuki , Japanese-American monk and educator (died 1971)
1905 – Ruth Alexander , pioneering American pilot (died 1930)1905 – Hedley Verity , English cricketer and soldier (died 1943)
1907 – Irene Hunt , American author and educator (died 2001)1909 – Fred Perry , English tennis player and academic (died 1995)1910 – Ester Boserup , Danish economist and author (died 1999)1911 – Big Joe Turner , American blues/R&B singer (died 1985)1912 – Richard Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1992)1912 – Perry Como , American singer and television host (died 2001)
1912 – Walter Sisulu , South African politician (died 2003)
1913 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood , Canadian-English publisher and politician (died 2000)1914 – Pierre Balmain , French fashion designer, founded Balmain (died 1982)1914 – Boris Christoff , Bulgarian-Italian opera singer (died 1993)
1917 – Bill Everett , American author and illustrator (died 1973)1919 – Margot Fonteyn , British ballerina (died 1991)1920 – Pope John Paul II (died 2005)1920 – Anthony Storr , English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author (died 2001)
1921 – Joan Eardley , British artist (died 1963)1921 – Michael A. Epstein , English pathologist and academic (died 2024)
1922 – Bill Macy , American actor (died 2019)1922 – Kai Winding , Danish-American trombonist and composer (died 1983)
1923 – Jean-Louis Roux , Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 2013)1923 – Hugh Shearer , Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (died 2004)
1924 – Priscilla Pointer , American actress (died 2025)1924 – Jack Whitaker , American sportscaster (died 2019)
1925 – Lillian Hoban , American author and illustrator (died 1998)1927 – Richard Body , English politician (died 2018)1927 – Ray Nagel , American football player and coach (died 2015)
1928 – Pernell Roberts , American actor (died 2010)1929 – Jack Sanford , American baseball player and coach (died 2000)1929 – Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (died 2012)
1930 – Warren Rudman , American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)1930 – Fred Saberhagen , American soldier and author (died 2007)
1931 – Don Martin , American cartoonist (died 2000)1931 – Robert Morse , American actor (died 2022)
1931 – Kalju Pitksaar , Estonian chess player (died 1995)
1931 – Clément Vincent , Canadian farmer and politician (died 2018)
1933 – Bernadette Chirac , French politician, First Lady of France (died 2026)1933 – H. D. Deve Gowda , Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
1933 – Don Whillans , English rock climber and mountaineer (died 1985)
1934 – Dwayne Hickman , American actor and director (died 2022)1935 – Pádraig Ó Snodaigh , Irish activist and writer (died 2025)1936 – Leon Ashley , American singer-songwriter (died 2013)1936 – Türker İnanoğlu , Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
1936 – Michael Sandle , English sculptor and academic
1937 – Brooks Robinson , American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)1937 – Jacques Santer , Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1938 – Janet Fish , American painter and academic1939 – Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack , English historian, journalist, and politician (died 2024)1939 – Giovanni Falcone , Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)
1939 – Gordon O'Connor , Canadian general and politician, 38th Canadian Minister of Defence
1940 – Erico Aumentado , Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)1941 – Gino Brito , Canadian wrestler and promoter1941 – Malcolm Longair , Scottish astronomer, physicist, and academic
1941 – Miriam Margolyes , English-Australian actress and singer
1942 – Nobby Stiles , English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)1943 – Jimmy Snuka , Fijian wrestler (died 2017)1944 – Albert Hammond , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1944 – W. G. Sebald , German novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2001)
1945 – Gail Strickland , American actress1946 – Frank Hsieh , Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China 1946 – Reggie Jackson , American baseball player and sportscaster
1946 – Gerd Langguth , German political scientist and author (died 2013)
1947 – John Bruton , Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2024)1948 – Joe Bonsall , American country/gospel singer (died 2024)1948 – Yi Mun-yol , South Korean author and academic
1948 – Richard Swedberg , Swedish sociologist and academic
1948 – Tom Udall , American lawyer and politician, 28th New Mexico Attorney General , United States Senator from New Mexico
1949 – Walter Hawkins , American gospel music singer and pastor (died 2010)1949 – Rick Wakeman , English progressive rock keyboardist and songwriter
1950 – Rod Milburn , American hurdler and coach (died 1997)1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh , American singer-songwriter and painter
1951 – Richard Clapton , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist1951 – Jim Sundberg , American baseball player and sportscaster
1951 – Angela Voigt , German long jumper (died 2013)
1952 – Diane Duane , American author and screenwriter1952 – David Leakey , English general and politician
1952 – George Strait , American singer, guitarist and producer
1952 – Jeana Yeager , American pilot
1953 – Alan Kupperberg , American author and illustrator (died 2015)1954 – Wreckless Eric , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1954 – Eric Gerets , Belgian footballer and manager
1955 – Chow Yun-fat , Hong Kong actor and screenwriter1956 – Catherine Corsini , French director and screenwriter1956 – John Godber , English playwright and screenwriter
1956 – Jim Moginie , Australian guitarist and songwriter
1957 – Michael Cretu , Romanian-German keyboard player and producer1957 – Henrietta Moore , English anthropologist and academic
1958 – Rubén Omar Romano , Argentinian-Mexican footballer and coach1958 – Toyah Willcox , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1959 – Graham Dilley , English cricketer and coach (died 2011)1959 – Jay Wells , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Brent Ashton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1960 – Jari Kurri , Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1960 – Yannick Noah , French tennis player
1961 – Russell Senior , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1963 – Marty McSorley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1963 – Sam Vincent , American basketball player and coach
1964 – Ignasi Guardans , Spanish academic and politician1966 – Renata Nielsen , Polish-Danish long jumper and coach1966 – Michael Tait , American singer-songwriter and producer
1967 – Nina Björk , Swedish journalist and author1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen , German race car driver
1967 – Nancy Juvonen , American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Flower Films
1967 – Mimi Macpherson , Australian environmentalist, entrepreneur and celebrity
1968 – Philippe Benetton , French rugby player1968 – Ralf Kelleners , German race car driver
1969 – Troy Cassar-Daley , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist1969 – Martika , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1969 – Antônio Carlos Zago , Brazilian footballer and manager
1970 – Javier Cárdenas , Spanish singer, television and radio presenter1970 – Tina Fey , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1970 – Tim Horan , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1970 – Billy Howerdel , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1970 – Vicky Sunohara , Canadian former ice hockey player
1971 – Brad Friedel , American international soccer player, manager and sportscaster1971 – Mark Menzies , Scottish politician
1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi , Japanese race car driver
1972 – Turner Stevenson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1973 – Donyell Marshall , American basketball player and coach1973 – Aleksandr Olerski , Estonian footballer (died 2011)
1974 – Nelson Figueroa , American baseball player and sportscaster1975 – Jem , Welsh singer-songwriter and producer1975 – John Higgins , Scottish snooker player
1975 – Jack Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Ingvild Kjerkol , Norwegian politician
1976 – Ron Mercer , American basketball player1976 – Marko Tomasović , Croatian pianist and composer
1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky , Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1977 – Lee Hendrie , English footballer1977 – Danny Mills , English footballer and sportscaster
1977 – Li Tie , Chinese footballer and manager
1978 – Ricardo Carvalho , Portuguese footballer1978 – Marcus Giles , American baseball player
1978 – Charles Kamathi , Kenyan runner
1979 – Jens Bergensten , Swedish video game designer, co-designed Minecraft 1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski , Polish footballer
1979 – Michal Martikán , Slovak slalom canoeist
1979 – Milivoje Novaković , Slovenian footballer
1979 – Julián Speroni , Argentinian footballer
1980 – Reggie Evans , American basketball player1980 – Michaël Llodra , French tennis player
1980 – Diego Pérez , Uruguayan footballer
1981 – Mahamadou Diarra , Malian international footballer1981 – Ashley Harrison , Australian rugby league player
1982 – Jason Brown , English footballer1982 – Marie-Ève Pelletier , Canadian tennis player
1983 – Gary O'Neil , English footballer1983 – Luis Terrero , Dominican baseball player
1983 – Vince Young , American football player
1984 – Ivet Lalova , Bulgarian sprinter1984 – Simon Pagenaud , French race car driver
1984 – Darius Šilinskis , Lithuanian basketball player
1984 – Joakim Soria , Mexican baseball player
1984 – Niki Terpstra , Dutch cyclist
1985 – Oliver Sin , Hungarian painter1985 – Henrique Sereno , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Kevin Anderson , South African tennis player1988 – Taeyang , South Korean singer1990 – Dimitri Daeseleire , Belgian footballer1990 – Yuya Osako , Japanese footballer
1990 – Josh Starling , Australian rugby league player
1992 – Adwoa Aboah , British fashion model1993 – Stuart Percy , Canadian ice hockey player1993 – Jessica Watson , Australian sailor
1998 – Polina Edmunds , American figure skater1999 – Laura Omloop , Belgian singer-songwriter2000 – Ryan Sessegnon , English footballer2000 – Steven Sessegnon , English footballer
2001 – Emma Navarro , American tennis player2001 – Grace Reiter , American actress, comedian, and content creator
2002 – Alina Zagitova , Russian figure skater2003 – Travis Hunter , American football player2009 – Hala Finley , American actressDeaths
1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki , Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (born 1623)1675 – Jacques Marquette , French-American missionary and explorer (born 1637)
1692 – Elias Ashmole , English astrologer and politician (born 1617)1721 – Maria Barbara Carillo , victim of the Spanish Inquisition (born 1625)1733 – Georg Böhm , German organist and composer (born 1661)1780 – Charles Hardy , English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1714)1781 – Túpac Amaru II , Peruvian indigenous rebel leader (born 1742)1792 – Levy Solomons , Canadian merchant and fur trader (born 1730)1795 – Robert Rogers , English colonel (born 1731)1799 – Pierre Beaumarchais , French playwright and publisher (born 1732)1800 – Alexander Suvorov , Russian general (born 1729)1807 – John Douglas , Scottish bishop and scholar (born 1721)1808 – Elijah Craig , American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (born 1738)1844 – Richard McCarty , American lawyer and politician (born 1780)1853 – Lionel Kieseritzky , Estonian-French chess player (born 1806)1867 – Clarkson Stanfield , English painter (born 1793)1889 – Isabella Glyn , Scottish-English actress (born 1823)1900 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien , French archaeologist and philosopher (born 1813)1908 – Louis-Napoléon Casault , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)1909 – Isaac Albéniz , Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)1909 – George Meredith , English novelist and poet (born 1828)
1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa , Polish author and publisher (born 1841)1910 – Pauline Viardot , French soprano and composer (born 1821)
1911 – Gustav Mahler , Austrian composer and conductor (born 1860)1916 – Chen Qimei , Chinese revolutionary (born 1878)1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran , French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)1941 – Werner Sombart , German economist and sociologist (born 1863)1943 – Ōnishiki Daigorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (born 1883)1947 – Hal Chase , American baseball player and manager (born 1883)1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune , American educator and activist (born 1875)1956 – Maurice Tate , English cricketer (born 1895)1958 – Jacob Fichman , Israeli poet and critic (born 1881)1963 – Ernie Davis , American football player, coach, and manager (born 1939)1968 – Frank Walsh , Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (born 1897)1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh , Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1908)1973 – Jeannette Rankin , American social worker and politician (born 1880)1973 – İbrahim Kaypakkaya , Turkish Maoist revolutionary and founder of Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) (born 1949)
1974 – Harry Ricardo , English engine designer and researcher (born 1885)1975 – Leroy Anderson , American composer and conductor (born 1908)1980 – Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption :
1980 – Ian Curtis , English singer-songwriter (born 1956)
1981 – Arthur O'Connell , American actor (born 1908)1981 – William Saroyan , American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1908)
1987 – Mahdi Amel , Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (born 1936)1989 – Dorothy Ruth , American horse breeder and author (born 1921)1990 – Jill Ireland , English actress (born 1936)1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr. , American actor (born 1903)1995 – Alexander Godunov , Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (born 1949)
1995 – Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty , Irish ufologist and historian (born 1911)
1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress (born 1933)
1998 – Obaidullah Aleem , Indian-Pakistani poet and author (born 1939)1999 – Augustus Pablo , Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (born 1954)1999 – Betty Robinson , American runner (born 1911)
2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik , Russian-American composer and musicologist (born 1946)2001 – Irene Hunt , American author and illustrator (born 1907)2002 – Davey Boy Smith , English professional wrestler (born 1962)2004 – Elvin Jones , American drummer and bandleader (born 1927)2006 – Jaan Eilart , Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (born 1933)2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)2008 – Joseph Pevney , American actor and director (born 1911)2008 – Roberto García-Calvo Montiel , Spanish judge (born 1942)
2009 – Dolla , American rapper (born 1987)2009 – Wayne Allwine , American voice actor, sound effects editor and Foley artist (born 1947)
2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran , Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (born 1954)
2012 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , German opera singer and conductor (born 1925)2012 – Peter Jones , English-Australian drummer and songwriter (born 1967)
2012 – Alan Oakley , English bicycle designer, designed the Raleigh Chopper (born 1927)
2013 – Aleksei Balabanov , Russian director and screenwriter (born 1959)2013 – Jo Benkow , Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1924)
2013 – Steve Forrest , American actor (born 1925)
2013 – David McMillan , American football player (born 1981)
2013 – Lothar Schmid , German chess player (born 1928)
2014 – Dobrica Ćosić , Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1921)2014 – Hans-Peter Dürr , German physicist and academic (born 1929)
2014 – Kaiketsu Masateru , Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)
2014 – Chukwuedu Nwokolo , Nigerian physician and academic (born 1921)
2014 – Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and astronaut (born 1946)
2015 – Halldór Ásgrímsson , Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1947)2015 – Raymond Gosling , English physicist and academic (born 1926)
2015 – Jean-François Théodore , French businessman (born 1946)
2017 – Roger Ailes , American businessman (born 1940)2017 – Chris Cornell , American singer (born 1964)
2017 – Jacque Fresco , American engineer and academic (born 1916)
2019 – Austin Eubanks , American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)2020 – Ken Osmond , American actor and police officer (born 1943)2021 – Charles Grodin , American actor and talk show host (born 1935)2021 – Yolanda Tortolero , Venezuelan politician
2023 – Jim Brown , American football player, civil rights activist, and actor (born 1936)2024 – Bruce Nordstrom , American businessman (born 1933)2024 – Tony O'Reilly , Irish rugby player and businessman (born 1936)
2024 – Alice Stewart , American political commentator (born 1966)
2026 – Tom Kane , American voice actor (born 1962)