October 15
October 15 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonayaw Armenian 27 Sahmi 1476 Aztec Izcalli 13, 6 Miquiztli Babylonian 2 Tashritu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Beteng, Menala, Keliwon, Aryang, Wraspati of Kelawu, Uma, Jangur, Manusa Bengali 30 Ashshin , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Water Dog ・Horn Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 9 , Day 6Hanlu , 8 days until Shuangjiang )Common Era 15 October 2026 CE Coptic 5 Paopi , AM 1743Egyptian 2 Phamenoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 5 Ṭeqemt, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Tridi de Vendémiaire de l'Année 235 de la République Gregorian 15 October , AD 2026 Hebrew 4 Cheshvan , AM 5787 Hindu Jyeṣṭhā ・Saubhāgya Āśvina , 1948 SE Pañcamī , Śukla pakṣa of Āśvina , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,863 Icelandic Fimmtudagur, 22 Haustmánuður 2026 Islamic 3 Jumada al-awwal , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W42-4 Japanese 5 Nagatsuki , Reiwa 8Kanro , 8 days until Sōkō ) Julian 2 October , AD 2026 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461329 Korean 5 Gaedal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.14.0.6 19 Yax , 6 Cimi Roman ante diem VI Nonas Octobres , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 23 Mehr , SH 1405 Tibetan 5 tha skar, me pho rta
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Day of the year
October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 77 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic .1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin Lakehurst, New Jersey , United States.1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India ) makes its first flight.1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport ) is dedicated.1940 – President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.1944 – World War II : Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone , the basis of an early oral contraceptive.1954 – Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.1956 – FORTRAN , the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.1965 – Vietnam War : A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement , resulting in the first arrest under a new law.1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale .1970 – During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge , a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.1979 – Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.1979 – A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War .
1987 – Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy , killing all 37 people on board.1987 – A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara .1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL .1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.1991 – The "Oh-My-God particle ", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator , is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground , Utah .1991 – The leaders of the Baltic States , Arnold Rüütel of Estonia , Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania , signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki , Finland.
1994 – The United States, under the Clinton administration , returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide , to the island.1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.2002 – A Soyuz-U rocket carrying Foton-M No.1 fails after liftoff from Plesetsk Cosmodrome and crashes, killing one person and injuring eight others.2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5 , its first crewed space mission.2006 – The 6.7 Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.2007 – Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids .2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.2013 – The 7.2 Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.2016 – One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.2018 – 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs , is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.Births
1608 – Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)1622 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie , Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)1686 – Allan Ramsay , Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)1701 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville , Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)1711 – Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine , Queen of Sardinia (died 1741)1762 – Samuel Adams Holyoke , American composer and educator (died 1820)1765 – Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet , English politician and peer (died 1840)1767 – Gabriel Richard , French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)1775 – Bernhard Crusell , Finnish composer (died 1838)1784 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud , French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)1785 – José Miguel Carrera , Chilean general and politician (died 1821)1789 – William Christopher Zeise , Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt , one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)1802 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)1814 – Mikhail Lermontov , Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)1816 – John Robertson , English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)1818 – Alexander Dreyschock , Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)1825 – Marie of Prussia , Queen of Bavaria (died 1889)1829 – Asaph Hall , American astronomer and academic (died 1907)1833 – John Alexander MacPherson , Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)1836 – James Tissot , French painter and illustrator (died 1902)1840 – Honoré Mercier , Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche , German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)1858 – John L. Sullivan , American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)1865 – Charles W. Clark , American singer and educator (died 1925)1872 – Wilhelm Miklas , Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)1872 – August Nilsson , Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)
1874 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)1878 – Paul Reynaud , French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)1879 – Jane Darwell , American actress (died 1967)1881 – P. G. Wodehouse , English novelist and playwright (died 1975)1882 – Charley O'Leary , American baseball player and coach (died 1941)1884 – Archibald Hoxsey , American pilot (died 1910)1887 – Frederick Fleet , English sailor and lookout on the Titanic (died 1965)1888 – S. S. Van Dine , American author and critic (died 1939)1890 – Álvaro de Campos , Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)1893 – Carol II of Romania , King of Romania (died 1953)1894 – Moshe Sharett , Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)1897 – Johannes Sikkar , Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)1899 – Adolf Brudes , Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)1900 – Mervyn LeRoy , American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)1901 – Enrique Jardiel Poncela , Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)1905 – C. P. Snow , English chemist and author (died 1980)1906 – Hiram Fong , American soldier and politician (died 2004)1906 – Alicia Patterson , American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday
1906 – Victoria Spivey , American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
1907 – Varian Fry , American journalist and author (died 1967)1908 – Herman Chittison , American pianist (died 1967)1908 – John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)
1909 – Jesse L. Greenstein , American astronomer and academic (died 2002)1909 – Robert Trout , American journalist (died 2000)
1910 – Edwin O. Reischauer , Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)1912 – Nellie Lutcher , American singer and pianist (died 2007)1913 – Wolfgang Lüth , German U-boat captain (died 1945)1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah , Afghan king (died 2007)1916 – Al Killian , American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)1916 – George Turner , Australian author and critic (died 1997)
1917 – Jan Miner , American actress (died 2004)1917 – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , American historian and critic (died 2007)
1917 – Paul Tanner , American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
1919 – Malcolm Ross , American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)1919 – Chuck Stevenson , American race car driver (died 1995)
1920 – Chris Economaki , American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)1920 – Patricia Jessel , Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)
1920 – Peter Koch , American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)
1920 – Mario Puzo , American author and screenwriter (died 1999)
1920 – Henri Verneuil , Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
1921 – Angelica Rozeanu , Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)1922 – Agustina Bessa-Luís , Portuguese author (died 2019)1922 – Tommy Edwards , American singer-songwriter (died 1969)
1922 – Preben Munthe , Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)
1923 – Italo Calvino , Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)1923 – Antonio Fontán , Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)
1923 – Eugene Patterson , American journalist and activist (died 2013)
1923 – Lindsay Thompson , Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)
1924 – Marguerite Andersen , German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)1924 – Lee Iacocca , American businessman and author (died 2019)
1924 – Warren Miller , American director and screenwriter (died 2018)
1925 – Mickey Baker , American-French guitarist (died 2012)1925 – Aurora Bautista , Spanish actress (died 2012)
1925 – Tony Hart , English painter and television host (died 2009)
1926 – James E. Akins , American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)1926 – Agustín García Calvo , Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)
1926 – Michel Foucault , French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
1926 – Ed McBain , American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
1926 – Jean Peters , American actress (died 2000)
1926 – Karl Richter , German organist and conductor (died 1981)
1927 – B. S. Abdur Rahman , Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)1929 – Hubert Dreyfus , American philosopher best known for his critiques of AI (died 2017)1929 – Will Insley , American painter and architect (died 2011)
1930 – FM-2030 , Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)1930 – Ned McWherter , American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)
1931 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)1931 – Freddy Cole , American jazz singer and pianist (died 2020)
1931 – Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark , English academic and politician
1932 – Jaan Rääts , Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)1933 – Nicky Barnes , American drug lord (died 2012)1934 – Alan Elsdon , English trumpet player (died 2016)1934 – N. Ramani , Indian flute player (died 2015)
1935 – Barry McGuire , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1935 – Dick McTaggart , Scottish boxer (died 2025)
1935 – Bobby Morrow , American sprinter (died 2020)
1935 – Willie O'Ree , Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
1936 – Michel Aumont , French actor (died 2019)1936 – Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell , South African-English businessman (died 2019)
1937 – Linda Lavin , American actress and singer (died 2024)1938 – Marv Johnson , American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)1938 – Fela Kuti , Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)
1938 – Brice Marden , American painter (died 2023)
1938 – Robert Ward , American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
1940 – Tommy Bishop , English rugby league player and coach1940 – Peter C. Doherty , Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Roy Masters , Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author1942 – Hilo Chen , Taiwanese-American painter1942 – Harold W. Gehman, Jr. , American admiral
1942 – Don Stevenson , American singer-songwriter and drummer
1943 – Stanley Fischer , American and Israeli economist (died 2025)1943 – Penny Marshall , American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)
1944 – Sali Berisha , Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania 1944 – A. Chandranehru , Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)
1944 – Haim Saban , Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
1944 – David Trimble , Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland , Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
1945 – Steve Camacho , Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)1945 – Antonio Cañizares Llovera , Spanish cardinal
1945 – Neophyte of Bulgaria , Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)
1945 – Jim Palmer , American baseball player and sportscaster
1946 – Victor Banerjee , Indian actor and director1946 – Richard Carpenter , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1946 – Palle Danielsson , Swedish bassist and composer
1946 – Stewart Stevenson , Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
1947 – Hümeyra , Turkish singer-songwriter and actress1947 – Jaroslav Erno Šedivý , Czech drummer
1948 – Renato Corona , Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)1948 – Chris de Burgh , British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1949 – Laurie McBain , American author1949 – Prannoy Roy , Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
1950 – Candida Royalle , American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)1951 – Peter Richardson , English actor, director, and screenwriter1951 – Roscoe Tanner , American tennis player
1951 – Rafael Vaganian , Armenian chess player
1953 – Betsy Clifford , Canadian skier1953 – Tito Jackson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
1953 – Larry Miller , American actor and comedian
1953 – Peter Phillips , English conductor and musicologist
1954 – Peter Bakowski , Australian poet and educator1954 – Steve Bracks , Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
1954 – Jere Burns , American actor
1954 – Julia Yeomans , English physicist and academic
1955 – Kulbir Bhaura , Indian field hockey player1955 – Emma Chichester Clark , English author and illustrator
1955 – Tanya Roberts , American actress (died 2021)
1957 – Michael Caton-Jones , Scottish actor, director, and producer1957 – Mira Nair , Indian-American actress, director, and producer
1957 – Stacy Peralta , American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
1958 – Stephen Clarke , English-French journalist and author1959 – Emeril Lagasse , American chef and author1959 – Alex Paterson , English keyboard player
1959 – Sarah Ferguson
1959 – Todd Solondz , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1961 – Vyacheslav Butusov , Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist1963 – Stanley Menzo , Dutch footballer and manager1964 – Roberto Vittori , Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut1965 – Nasser El Sonbaty , German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)1966 – Eric Benét , American singer-songwriter1966 – Jorge Campos , Mexican footballer and manager
1966 – Bill Charlap , American pianist and composer
1966 – Ilse Huizinga , Dutch singer
1966 – Dave Stead , English drummer
1967 – Dan Forest , American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina 1967 – Götz Otto , German actor and screenwriter
1968 – Didier Deschamps , French footballer and manager1968 – Vanessa Marcil , American actress
1968 – Rod Wishart , Australian rugby league player
1968 – Trent Zimmerman , Australian politician
1969 – Vítor Baía , Portuguese footballer1969 – Dominic West , English actor and director
1970 – Ginuwine , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor1970 – Pernilla Wiberg , Swedish skier
1971 – Andy Cole , English footballer and coach1971 – Lauri Pilter , Estonian author and translator
1972 – Fred Hoiberg , American basketball player and coach1972 – Michél Mazingu-Dinzey , German-Congolese footballer and manager
1973 – Aleksandr Filimonov , Russian footballer1974 – Bianca Rinaldi , Brazilian actress1976 – Elisa Aguilar , Spanish basketball player1975 – Chukwudi Iwuji , Nigerian-British actor1977 – Masato Kawabata , Japanese racing driver1977 – Erin McKeown , American indie rock-folk musician and singer-songwriter
1977 – David Trezeguet , French footballer
1977 – Patricio Urrutia , Ecuadorian footballer
1978 – Wes Moore , American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland 1978 – Takeshi Morishima , Japanese wrestler
1979 – Bohemia , Pakistani-American rapper and producer1979 – Paul Robinson , English footballer
1979 – Jaci Velasquez , American singer-songwriter and actress
1979 – Māris Verpakovskis , Latvian footballer
1980 – Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist1981 – Keyshia Cole , American singer-songwriter and producer1981 – Elena Dementieva , Russian tennis player
1982 – Charline Labonté , French Canadian ice hockey goaltender (Canadian team)1983 – Stephy Tang , Hong Kong singer1983 – Bruno Senna , Brazilian race car driver
1984 – Izale McLeod , English footballer1984 – Jessie Ware , English singer-songwriter
1985 – Arron Afflalo , American basketball player1986 – Lee Donghae , South Korean singer-songwriter1986 – Carlo Janka , Swiss skier
1986 – Nolito , Spanish footballer
1987 – Ott Tänak , Estonian racing driver1988 – Dominique Jones , American basketball player1988 – Mesut Özil , German footballer
1989 – Blaine Gabbert , American football player1989 – Anthony Joshua , British professional boxer
1990 – Jeon Ji-yoon , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer1991 – Brock Nelson , American ice hockey player1992 – Ncuti Gatwa , Rwandan-Scottish actor1992 – Teoscar Hernández , Dominican baseball player
1992 – Vincent Martella , American actor
1993 – Richaun Holmes , American basketball player1993 – Roh Tae-hyun , South Korean singer and dancer
1994 – Lil' Kleine , Dutch rapper1994 – Babar Azam , Pakistani cricket player
1995 – Jack Flaherty , American baseball player1995 – Jakob Pöltl , Austrian basketball player
1996 – Charly Musonda , Belgian footballer1996 – Grace Van Dien , American actress
1996 – Zelo , South Korean rapper and dancer
1998 – Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar , Indonesian activist and politician1999 – Bailee Madison , American-Canadian actress and singer1999 – Ben Woodburn , Welsh footballer
2000 – Melki Sedek Huang , Indonesian activist and sex offender
2005 – Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark Deaths
Pre-1600
55 BC – Lucretius , Roman poet and philosopher (born 98 BC)412 – Theophilus , Patriarch of Alexandria 892 – Al-Mu'tamid , Abbasid caliph 898 – Lambert of Italy (born 880)912 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi , Spanish emir (born 844)925 – Rhazes , Persian polymath (born 864)961 – Abd-al-Rahman III , caliph of Córdoba1002 – Otto-Henry , Duke of Burgundy (born 946)1080 – Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)1173 – Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)1240 – Razia Sultana , sultan of Delhi (born 1205)1243 – Hedwig of Silesia , Polish saint (born 1174)1326 – Walter Stapledon , bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon , judge and politician.1385 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow 1389 – Pope Urban VI (born 1318)1404 – Marie Valois , French princess (born 1344)1496 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)1564 – Andreas Vesalius , Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)1674 – Robert Herrick , English poet (born 1591)1684 – Géraud de Cordemoy , French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)1690 – Juan de Valdés Leal , Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)1715 – Humphry Ditton , English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)1788 – Samuel Greig , Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735)1810 – Alfred Moore , American captain and judge (born 1755)1811 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland , English painter and politician (born 1735)1817 – Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)1819 – Sergey Vyazmitinov , Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)1820 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)1837 – Ivan Dmitriev , Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)1838 – Letitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist (born 1802)1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett , English author and songwriter (born 1837)1900 – Zdeněk Fibich , Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)1910 – Stanley Ketchel , American boxer (born 1886)1917 – Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)1918 – Sai Baba of Shirdi , Indian guru and saint (born 1838)1925 – Dolores Jiménez y Muro , Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)1930 – Herbert Henry Dow , Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)1934 – Raymond Poincaré , French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)1940 – Lluís Companys , Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)1945 – Pierre Laval , French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France , convicted Vichy collaborator (born 1883)1946 – Hermann Göring , German general and Nazi politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1893)1948 – Edythe Chapman , American actress (born 1863)1955 – Fumio Hayasaka , Japanese composer (born 1914)1958 – Asaf Halet Çelebi , Turkish poet and author (born 1907)1958 – Elizabeth Alexander , British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)
1959 – Stepan Bandera , Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)1959 – Lipót Fejér , Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
1960 – Clara Kimball Young , American actress and producer (born 1890)1961 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' , Indian poet and author (born 1896)1963 – Horton Smith , American golfer and captain (born 1908)1964 – Cole Porter , American composer and songwriter (born 1891)1965 – Abraham Fraenkel , German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)1966 – Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell , English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)1968 – Virginia Lee Burton , American author and illustrator (born 1909)1976 – Carlo Gambino , Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)1978 – W. Eugene Smith , American photojournalist (born 1918)1978 – Rolf Stenersen , Norwegian businessman (born 1899)
1980 – Mikhail Lavrentyev , Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)1980 – Apostolos Nikolaidis , Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
1983 – Pat O'Brien , American actor (born 1899)1987 – Thomas Sankara , Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)1987 – Donald Wandrei , American author and poet (born 1908)
1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji , English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)1989 – Danilo Kiš , Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)1990 – Delphine Seyrig , French actress and director (born 1932)1993 – Aydın Sayılı , Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)1994 – Sarah Kofman , French philosopher and academic (born 1934)1995 – Bengt Åkerblom , Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)1995 – Marco Campos , Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)
1999 – Josef Locke , British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch , Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)2000 – Vincent Canby , American journalist and critic (born 1924)
2001 – Zhang Xueliang , Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)2003 – Ben Metcalfe , Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)2004 – Per Højholt , Danish poet (born 1928)2005 – Jason Collier , American basketball player (born 1977)2005 – Matti Wuori , Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)
2007 – Piet Boukema , Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)2008 – Edie Adams , American actress and singer (born 1927)2008 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca , Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)
2008 – Jack Narz , American game show host and announcer (born 1922)
2009 – Heinz Versteeg , Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)2010 – Richard C. Miller , American photographer (born 1912)2010 – Mildred Fay Jefferson , American physician and activist (born 1926)
2010 – Johnny Sheffield , American actor (born 1931)
2011 – Betty Driver , English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)2012 – Claude Cheysson , French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)2012 – Erol Günaydın , Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
2012 – Maria Petrou , Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk , Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
2013 – Donald Bailey , American drummer (born 1933)2014 – Giovanni Reale , Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)2017 – Chinggoy Alonzo , Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)2017 – Deng Ken , Chinese politician, younger brother of former Paramount leader of China Deng Xiaoping (born 1911)2018 – Paul Allen , co-founder of Microsoft , philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)2021 – David Amess , British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)2024 – Mike Jackson , English general (born 1944)2025 – Jim Bolger , New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1935)