February 13
February 13 this yearin various calendars Akan Kurufie Armenian 28 Mehekani 1475 Aztec Etzalcualiztli 14, 9 Ehēcatl Babylonian 24 Tebetu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Pasah, Laba, Umanis, Paniron, Sukra of Menail, Brahma, Nohan, Pati Bengali 30 Magh , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Earth Horse ・Ox Mansion Wood Snake Year, Month 12 , Day 26Lichun , 5 days until Yushui )Common Era 13 February 2026 CE Coptic 6 Meshir , AM 1742Egyptian 3 Epiphi , 2774 NE Ethiopian 6 Yakātit, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Quintidi de Pluviôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 13 February , AD 2026 Hebrew 26 Shevat , AM 5786 Hindu Mūla ・Harṣaṇa Phālguna , 1947 SE Ekādaśī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Māgha , 2082 VE Siddhārthin ・5126 KY ・1,872,619 Icelandic Föstudagur, 22 Þorri 2025 Islamic 25 Sha'aban , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W07-5 Japanese 26 Shiwasu , Reiwa 8Risshun , 6 days until Usui ) Julian 31 January , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461085 Korean 26 Sodal , 4358 DE Maya 13.0.13.6.2 0 Kayab , 9 Ik Roman Pridie Kalendas Februarias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 24 Bahman , SH 1404 Tibetan 26 rgyal, shing mo sbrul
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Day of the year
February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 321 days remain until the end of the year (322 in leap years ).
Events
Pre-1600
962 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum Rome .1258 – Siege of Baghdad : Hulegu Khan , a prince of the Mongol Empire , orders his army to sack and plunder the city of Baghdad , which they had just captured.1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th– 13th.1352 – War of the Straits : The Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets.1462 – The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles .1503 – Challenge of Barletta : Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta .1542 – Catherine Howard , the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery .1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition .1642 – The Clergy Act becomes law, excluding bishops of the Church of England from serving in the House of Lords .1660 – With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden , his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War .1689 – William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England .1692 – Massacre of Glencoe : Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe , Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange .1726 – Parliament of Negrete between Mapuche and Spanish authorities in Chile brings an end to the Mapuche uprising of 1723–26 .1755 – Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC , Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi . The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into two: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta .1820 – The Assassination of the Duke of Berry takes place in Paris . The Duke of Berry , nephew of Louis XVIII , is stabbed to death while attending the Paris Opera .1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania , Banat and Bukovina , which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.1861 – Italian unification : The Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies .1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne , burying Brussels 's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.1880 – Thomas Edison observes thermionic emission .1913 – The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiates a period of almost four decades of independence .1914 – Copyright : In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.1920 – The Negro National League is formed.1931 – The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi .1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby , the son of Charles Lindbergh .1945 – World War II : The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army .1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden , Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment .
1951 – Korean War : Battle of Chipyong-ni , which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls .1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti , Italy.
1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue ", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee .
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California , US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug .1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain .1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York .1978 – Hilton bombing : A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge .1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky .1983 – A cinema fire in Turin , Italy, kills 64 people.1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .1991 – Gulf War : Two laser-guided "smart bombs " destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad . Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) .2001 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits El Salvador , killing at least 315.2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond , white dwarf star BPM 37093 The Beatles ' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ".2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election .2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations .2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune , Maharashtra , India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla , an American Indian tribe , are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park , restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega Kourou, French Guiana .2017 – Kim Jong-nam , brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un , is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport .2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial .2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico . Births
1602 – William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1637)1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy , French physician and chemist (died 1731)1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , Italian painter (died 1754)1719 – George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , English admiral and politician (died 1792)1721 – John Reid , Scottish general (died 1807)1728 – John Hunter , Scottish surgeon and anatomist (died 1793)1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus , English economist and scholar (died 1834)1768 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier , French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (died 1835)1769 – Ivan Krylov , Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)1805 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , German mathematician and academic (died 1859)1811 – François Achille Bazaine , French general (died 1888)1815 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold , American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (died 1857)1819 – Francis Smith , Haitian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (died 1909)1831 – John Aaron Rawlins , American general and politician, 29th United States Secretary of War (died 1869)1834 – Heinrich Caro , Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (died 1910)1835 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , Indian religious leader (died 1908)1849 – Lord Randolph Churchill , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1895)1855 – Paul Deschanel , Belgian-French politician, 11th President of France (died 1922)1863 – Hugo Becker , German cellist and composer (died 1941)1867 – Harold Mahony , Scottish-Irish tennis player (died 1905)1870 – Leopold Godowsky , Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1938)1871 – Joseph Devlin , Northern Irish political leader (Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) ) (died 1934)1873 – Feodor Chaliapin , Russian opera singer (died 1938)1876 – Fritz Buelow , German-American baseball player and umpire (died 1933)1879 – Sarojini Naidu , Indian poet and activist (died 1949)1880 – Dimitrie Gusti , Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (died 1955)1881 – Eleanor Farjeon , English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965)1883 – Hal Chase , American baseball player and manager (died 1947)1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov , Russian-Armenian actor and director (died 1922)
1884 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert , American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company (died 1961)1885 – Bess Truman , 35th First Lady of the United States (died 1982)1887 – Géza Csáth , Hungarian playwright and critic (died 1919)1888 – Georgios Papandreou , Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)1889 – Leontine Sagan , Austrian actress and director (died 1974)1891 – Kate Roberts , Welsh author and activist (died 1985)1891 – Grant Wood , American painter and academic (died 1942)
1892 – Robert H. Jackson , American politician, 57th United States Attorney General , Nuremberg prosecutor, and Supreme Court justice (died 1954)1898 – Hubert Ashton , English cricketer and politician (died 1979)1899 – Rolf Stenersen , Norwegian businessman (died 1978)1900 – Barbara von Annenkoff , Russian-born German film and stage actress (died 1979)1901 – Paul Lazarsfeld , Austrian-American sociologist and academic (died 1976)1902 – Harold Lasswell , American political scientist and theorist (died 1978)1903 – Georgy Beriev , Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the Beriev Design Bureau (died 1979)1903 – Georges Simenon , Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989)
1906 – Agostinho da Silva , Portuguese philosopher and author (died 1994)1907 – Katy de la Cruz , Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004)1910 – William Shockley , English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)1911 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz , Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (died 1984)1911 – Jean Muir , American actress and educator (died 1996)
1912 – Harald Riipalu , Russian-Estonian commander (died 1961)1912 – Margaretta Scott , English actress (died 2005)
1913 – Khalid of Saudi Arabia (died 1982)1915 – Lyle Bettger , American actor (died 2003)1915 – Aung San , Burmese general and politician, 5th Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (died 1947)
1916 – Dorothy Bliss , American invertebrate zoologist (died 1987)1918 – Patty Berg , golfer, Ladies Professional Golf Association tour founder1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford , American singer and actor (died 1991)1919 – Eddie Robinson , American football player and coach (died 2007)
1920 – Boudleaux Bryant , American songwriter (died 1987)1920 – Eileen Farrell , American soprano and educator (died 2002)
1921 – Jeanne Demessieux , French pianist and composer (died 1968)1921 – Aung Khin , Burmese painter (died 1996)
1922 – Francis Pym, Baron Pym , Welsh soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 2008)1922 – Gordon Tullock , American economist and academic (died 2014)
1923 – Michael Anthony Bilandic , American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (died 2002)1923 – Chuck Yeager , American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (died 2020)
1924 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , French journalist and politician (died 2006)1926 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove , American nuclear physicist (died 2012)1928 – Gerald Regan , Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)1929 – Omar Torrijos , Panamanian commander and politician, Military Leader of Panama (died 1981)1930 – Ernst Fuchs , Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015)1930 – Israel Kirzner , English-American economist, author, and academic
1932 – Susan Oliver , American actress (died 1990)1933 – Paul Biya , Cameroon politician, 2nd President of Cameroon 1933 – Kim Novak , American actress
1933 – Emanuel Ungaro , French fashion designer (died 2019)
1934 – George Segal , American actor (died 2021)1937 – Ali El-Maak , Sudanese author and academic (died 1992)1937 – Sigmund Jähn , German pilot and cosmonaut (died 2019)
1937 – Angelo Mosca , American-Canadian football player and wrestler (died 2021)
1938 – Oliver Reed , English actor (died 1999)1940 – Bram Peper , Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022)1941 – Sigmar Polke , German painter and photographer (died 2010)1941 – Bo Svenson , Swedish-American actor, director, and producer
1942 – Carol Lynley , American model and actress (died 2019)1942 – Peter Tork , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (died 2019)
1942 – Donald E. Williams , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2016)
1943 – Elaine Pagels , American theologian and academic1944 – Stockard Channing , American actress1944 – Jerry Springer , English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th Mayor of Cincinnati (died 2023)
1945 – Marian Dawkins , English biologist and academic1945 – King Floyd , American singer-songwriter (died 2006)
1945 – Simon Schama , English historian and author
1945 – William Sleator , American author and composer (died 2011)
1946 – Richard Blumenthal , American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut 1946 – Janet Finch , English sociologist and academic
1946 – Colin Matthews , English composer and educator
1947 – Stephen Hadley , American soldier and diplomat, 21st United States National Security Advisor 1947 – Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball player and coach
1947 – Bogdan Tanjević , Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach
1947 – Kevin Bloody Wilson , Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
1949 – Peter Kern , Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)1950 – Vera Baird , English lawyer and politician1950 – Peter Gabriel , English singer-songwriter and musician
1951 – David Naughton , American actor and singer1952 – Ed Gagliardi , American musician (died 2014)1953 – Akio Sato , Japanese wrestler and manager1954 – Donnie Moore , American baseball player (died 1989)1955 – Joe Birkett , American lawyer, judge, and politician1956 – Peter Hook , English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer1957 – Denise Austin , American fitness trainer and author1958 – Pernilla August , Swedish actress1958 – Øivind Elgenes , Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer
1958 – Marc Emery , Canadian publisher and activist
1958 – Jean-François Lisée , Canadian journalist and politician
1958 – Derek Riggs , English painter and illustrator
1959 – Gaston Gingras , Canadian ice hockey player1960 – Pierluigi Collina , Italian footballer and referee1960 – John Healey , English journalist and politician
1960 – Gary Patterson , American football player and coach
1960 – Matt Salinger , American actor
1960 – Artur Yusupov , Russian-German chess player and author
1961 – Marc Crawford , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1961 – cEvin Key , Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer
1961 – Henry Rollins , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1962 – Aníbal Acevedo Vilá , Puerto Rican lawyer and politician1962 – Baby Doll , American wrestler and manager
1962 – Michele Greene , American actress
1964 – Stephen Bowen , American engineer, captain, and astronaut1964 – Ylva Johansson , Swedish educator and politician, Swedish Minister of Employment
1965 – Peter O'Neill , Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea 1966 – Neal McDonough , American actor and producer1966 – Jeff Waters , Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1966 – Freedom Williams , American rapper and singer
1967 – Stanimir Stoilov , Bulgarian footballer and coach1968 – Kelly Hu , American actress1969 – Joyce DiDonato , American soprano and actress1969 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt , American science fiction author and editor
1970 – Elmer Bennett , American basketball player1970 – Karoline Krüger , Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
1971 – Sonia Evans , English singer-songwriter1971 – Mats Sundin , Swedish ice hockey player
1971 – Todd Williams , American baseball player
1972 – Virgilijus Alekna , Lithuanian discus thrower1972 – Juha Ylönen , Finnish ice hockey player
1974 – Fonzworth Bentley , American rapper and actor1974 – Robbie Williams , English singer-songwriter
1975 – Ben Collins , English race car driver1975 – Katie Hopkins , English media personality and columnist
1976 – Jörg Bergmeister , German race car driver1976 – Feist , Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
1977 – Randy Moss , American football player and coach1978 – Niklas Bäckström , Finnish ice hockey player1978 – Philippe Jaroussky , French singer
1978 – Cory Murphy , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1979 – Anders Behring Breivik , Norwegian mass murderer1979 – Rafael Márquez , Mexican footballer
1979 – Rachel Reeves , English economist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1979 – Mena Suvari , American actress and fashion designer
1980 – Carlos Cotto , Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer1981 – Luisão , Brazilian footballer1981 – Luke Ridnour , American basketball player
1982 – Even Helte Hermansen , Norwegian guitarist and composer1982 – Michael Turner , American football player
1983 – Mike Nickeas , Canadian baseball player1983 – Anna Watkins , English rower
1984 – Hinkelien Schreuder , Dutch swimmer1985 – Somdev Devvarman , Indian tennis player1985 – J. R. Giddens , American basketball player
1985 – Kwak Ji-min , South Korean actress
1985 – Al Montoya , American ice hockey player
1986 – Luke Moore , English footballer1986 – Aqib Talib , American football player
1987 – Eljero Elia , Dutch footballer1988 – Ryan Goins , American baseball player1988 – Dave Rudden , Irish author
1989 – Rodrigo Possebon , Brazilian footballer1990 – Nathan Eovaldi , American baseball player1990 – Mamadou Sakho , French footballer
1991 – Eliaquim Mangala , French footballer1991 – Vianney , French singer
1991 – Luke Voit , American baseball player
1992 – Keith Appling , American basketball player1994 – Memphis Depay , Dutch footballer1995 – Kendall Fuller , American football player1995 – Georges-Kévin Nkoudou , French-Cameroonian footballer
2000 – Vitinha , Portuguese footballer2001 – Kaapo Kakko , Finnish ice hockey player2002 – Jaden Ivey , American basketball player2002 – Sophia Lillis , American actress
2003 – Raúl Asencio , Spanish footballer2005 – Sergio Mestre , Spanish footballerDeaths
Pre-1600
106 – Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern Han dynasty (born AD 79)721 – Chilperic II , Frankish king (born 672)858 – Kenneth MacAlpin , Scottish king (probable; b. 810)921 – Vratislaus I , duke of Bohemia936 – Xiao Wen , empress of the Liao dynasty 942 – Muhammad ibn Ra'iq , Abbasid emir and regent988 – Adalbert Atto , Lombard nobleman1021 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , Fatimid caliph (born 985)1130 – Honorius II , pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)1141 – Béla II , king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110)1199 – Stefan Nemanja , Serbian grand prince (born 1113)1219 – Minamoto no Sanetomo , Japanese shōgun (born 1192)1332 – Andronikos II Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (born 1259)1351 – Kō no Morofuyu , Japanese general1539 – Isabella d'Este , Italian noblewoman (born 1474)1542 – Catherine Howard , Queen Consort of England and English wife of King Henry VIII (executed; b. 1521)1571 – Benvenuto Cellini , Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)1585 – Alfonso Salmeron , Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)1602 – Alexander Nowell , English clergyman and theologian (born 1507)1660 – Charles X Gustav , king of Sweden (born 1622)1662 – Elizabeth Stuart , queen of Bohemia (born 1596)1693 – Johann Caspar Kerll , German organist and composer (born 1627)1727 – William Wotton , English linguist and scholar (born 1666)1728 – Cotton Mather , American minister and author (born 1663)1732 – Charles-René d'Hozier , French historian and author (born 1640)1741 – Johann Joseph Fux , Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)1787 – Roger Joseph Boscovich , Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)1787 – Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French lawyer and politician, Foreign Minister of France (born 1717)
1795 – George (Konissky) , Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717)1813 – Samuel Ashe , American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (born 1725)1818 – George Rogers Clark , American general (born 1752)1826 – Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen , Russian general and politician, Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745)1831 – Edward Berry , English admiral (born 1768)1837 – Mariano José de Larra , Spanish journalist and author (born 1809)1845 – Henrik Steffens , Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773)1859 – Eliza Acton , English food writer and poet (born 1799)1877 – Costache Caragiale , Romanian actor and manager (born 1815)1883 – Richard Wagner , German composer (born 1813)1888 – Jean-Baptiste Lamy , French-American archbishop (born 1814)1892 – Provo Wallis , Canadian-English admiral (born 1791)1893 – Ignacio Manuel Altamirano , Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)1905 – Konstantin Savitsky , Russian painter (born 1844)1906 – Albert Gottschalk , Danish painter (born 1866)1934 – József Pusztai , Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864)1942 – Otakar Batlička , Czech journalist (born 1895)1942 – Epitácio Pessoa , Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th President of Brazil (born 1865)
1950 – Rafael Sabatini , Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875)1951 – Lloyd C. Douglas , American minister and author (born 1877)1952 – Josephine Tey , Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)1954 – Agnes Macphail , Canadian educator and politician (born 1890)1956 – Jan Łukasiewicz , Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878)1958 – Christabel Pankhurst , English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (born 1880)1958 – Georges Rouault , French painter and illustrator (born 1871)
1964 – Paulino Alcántara , Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896)1964 – Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902)
1967 – Yoshisuke Aikawa , entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (born 1880)1967 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez , substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889)
1968 – Mae Marsh , American actress (born 1895)1968 – Portia White , Canadian opera singer (born 1911)
1973 – Marinus Jan Granpré Molière , Dutch architect and educator (born 1883)1975 – André Beaufre , French general (born 1902)1976 – Murtala Mohammed , Nigerian general and politician, 4th President of Nigeria (born 1938)1976 – Lily Pons , French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)
1980 – David Janssen , American actor (born 1931)1984 – Cheong Eak Chong , Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888)1986 – Yuri Ivask , Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907)1989 – Wayne Hays , American lieutenant and politician (born 1911)1991 – Arno Breker , German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900)1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909)1996 – Martin Balsam , American actor (born 1919)1997 – Robert Klark Graham , American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii , Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920)
2000 – Anders Aalborg , Canadian educator and politician (born 1914)2000 – James Cooke Brown , American sociologist and author (born 1921)
2000 – John Leake , English soldier (born 1949)
2002 – Waylon Jennings , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)2003 – Kid Gavilán , Cuban-American boxer (born 1926)2003 – Walt Whitman Rostow , American economist; 7th United States National Security Advisor (born 1916)
2004 – François Tavenas , Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942)2004 – Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev , Chechen politician, 2nd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952)
2005 – Nelson Briles , American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943)2005 – Lúcia Santos , Portuguese nun (born 1907)
2006 – P. F. Strawson , English philosopher and author (born 1919)2007 – Elizabeth Jolley , English-Australian author and academic (born 1923)2007 – Charlie Norwood , American captain and politician (born 1941)
2007 – Richard Gordon Wakeford , English air marshal (born 1922)
2008 – Kon Ichikawa , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)2009 – Edward Upward , English author and educator (born 1903)2010 – Lucille Clifton , American poet and academic (born 1936)2010 – Dale Hawkins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
2012 – Russell Arms , American actor and singer (born 1920)2012 – Louise Cochrane , American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
2012 – Daniel C. Gerould , American playwright and academic (born 1928)
2013 – Gerry Day , American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)2013 – Miles J. Jones , American pathologist and physician (born 1952)
2013 – Pieter Kooijmans , Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)
2013 – Andrée Malebranche , Haitian artist (born 1916)
2013 – Yuko Tojo , Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)
2014 – Balu Mahendra , Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)2014 – Richard Møller Nielsen , Danish footballer and manager (born 1937)
2014 – Ralph Waite , American actor and activist (born 1928)
2014 – Laura Motta , Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919)
2015 – Faith Bandler , Australian activist and author (born 1918)2015 – Stan Chambers , American journalist and actor (born 1923)
2016 – O. N. V. Kurup , Indian poet and academic (born 1931)2016 – Antonin Scalia , American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936)
2017 – Ricardo Arias Calderón , Panamanian politician (born 1933)2017 – Aileen Hernandez , American union organizer and activist (born 1926)
2017 – Seijun Suzuki , Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)
2017 – Kim Jong-nam , North Korean politician (born 1971)
2017 – E-Dubble , American rapper (born 1982)
2018 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark , French-born Danish royal (born 1934)2019 – Callistus Ndlovu , Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)2021 – Kadir Topbaş , Turkish politician (born 1945)2025 – Jim Guy Tucker , American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of Arkansas (born 1943)