February 5
February 5 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonayaw Armenian 20 Mehekani 1475 Aztec Etzalcualiztli 6, 1 Ocēlōtl Babylonian 16 Tebetu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Beteng, Laba, Pon, Aryang, Wraspati of Uye, Brahma, Ogan, Manuh Bengali 22 Magh , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Metal Dog ・Horn Mansion Wood Snake Year, Month 12 , Day 18Lichun , 13 days until Yushui )Common Era 5 February 2026 CE Coptic 28 Tobi , AM 1742Egyptian 25 Payni , 2774 NE Ethiopian 28 Ṭer, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade II, Septidi de Pluviôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 5 February , AD 2026 Hebrew 18 Shevat , AM 5786 Hindu Uttaraphalgunī ・Atigaṇḍa Māgha , 1947 SE Caturthī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Māgha , 2082 VE Siddhārthin ・5126 KY ・1,872,611 Icelandic Fimmtudagur, 14 Þorri 2025 Islamic 17 Sha'aban , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W06-4 Japanese 18 Shiwasu , Reiwa 8Risshun , 14 days until Usui ) Julian 23 January , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461077 Korean 18 Sodal , 4358 DE Maya 13.0.13.5.14 12 Pax , 1 Ix Roman ante diem X Kalendas Februarias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 16 Bahman , SH 1404 Tibetan 19 rgyal, shing mo sbrul
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Day of the year
February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 329 days remain until the end of the year (330 in leap years ).
Events
1783 – In Calabria , a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.1810 – Peninsular War : Siege of Cádiz begins.1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg , Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza , Prince of Moldavia , is also elected as prince of Wallachia , joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities , an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire , which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state.1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger ", is found in Moliagul , Victoria, Australia.1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates U.S. Steel in the state of New Jersey , although the company would not start doing business until February 25 and the assets of Andrew Carnegie 's Carnegie Steel Company , Elbert H. Gary 's Federal Steel Company , and William Henry Moore 's National Steel Company were not acquired until April 1.1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, initially with four basic specialties.1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite , the world's first synthetic plastic .1913 – Greek military aviators Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.1913 – Claudio Monteverdi 's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea
1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson 's veto.
1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 – Charlie Chaplin , Mary Pickford , Douglas Fairbanks , and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists .1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal .1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra , Dutch East Indies .1941 – World War II : Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea .1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila .1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic .1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia , never to be recovered.
1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.1963 – The European Court of Justice 's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen direct effect , one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law .1967 – Cultural Revolution : The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders.1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.1975 – Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before . The uprising (locally known as the Limazo 1981 – Operation Soap : The Metropolitan Toronto Police Force raids four gay bathhouses in Toronto , Ontario, Canada, arresting just under 300, triggering mass protest and rallies.1985 – Ugo Vetere , then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi , then the mayor of Carthage , meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers .1994 – Markale massacres , more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo .
1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny , Chechnya.2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves , starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion .2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.2016 – New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.2016 – Cybercriminals initiate the Bangladesh Bank robbery , using the SWIFT network to fraudulently transfer $101 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account of Bangladesh Bank .2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi .2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial .2020 – Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179. Births
Pre-1600
976 – Sanjō , emperor of Japan (died 1017)1321 – John II , marquess of Montferrat (died 1372)1438 – Philip II , duke of Savoy (died 1497)1505 – Aegidius Tschudi , Swiss statesman and historian (died 1572)1519 – René of Châlon , prince of Orange (died 1544)1525 – Juraj Drašković , Croatian Catholic cardinal (died 1587)1533 – Andreas Dudith , Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (died 1589)1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi , Italian soldier, composer, and critic (died 1612)1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas , Spanish poet and educator (died 1669)1594 – Biagio Marini , Italian violinist and composer (died 1663)1608 – Gaspar Schott , German mathematician and physicist (died 1666)1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné , French author (died 1696)1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (died 1708)1703 – Gilbert Tennent , Irish-American minister (died 1764)1723 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (died 1794)1725 – James Otis Jr. , American lawyer and politician (died 1783)1744 – John Jeffries , American medical doctor, scientist, military surgeon, and inspiration for National Weatherperson's Day 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe , German composer and conductor (died 1798)1788 – Robert Peel , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1850)1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger , Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (died 1871)1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg , Finnish poet and hymn-writer (died 1877)1808 – Carl Spitzweg , German painter and poet (died 1885)1810 – Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist and composer (died 1880)1827 – Peter Lalor , Irish-Australian activist and politician (died 1889)1837 – Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church , Moody Bible Institute , and Moody Publishers (died 1899)1840 – John Boyd Dunlop , Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (died 1921)1840 – Hiram Maxim , American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (died 1916)
1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson , Estonian missionary and engraver (died 1903)1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author and critic (died 1907)1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto , Chilean lieutenant (died 1882)
1852 – Terauchi Masatake , Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1919)1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla , Irish politician, 3rd and last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (died 1963)1870 – Charles Edmund Brock , British painter and book illustrator (died 1938)1876 – Ernie McLea , Canadian ice hockey player (died 1931)1878 – André Citroën , French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (died 1935)1880 – Gabriel Voisin , French pilot and engineer (died 1973)1889 – Patsy Hendren , English cricketer and footballer (died 1962)1889 – Ernest Tyldesley , English cricketer (died 1962)
1889 – Recep Peker , Turkish officer and politician (died 1950)
1891 – Renato Petronio , Italian rower (died 1976)1892 – Elizabeth Ryan , American tennis player (died 1979)1897 – Dirk Stikker , Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (died 1979)1900 – Adlai Stevenson II , American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1965)1903 – Koto Matsudaira , Japanese diplomat, ambassador to the United Nations (died 1994)1903 – Joan Whitney Payson , American businesswoman and philanthropist (died 1975)
1906 – John Carradine , American actor (died 1988)1907 – Birgit Dalland , Norwegian politician (died 2007)1907 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000)
1908 – Marie Baron , Dutch swimmer and diver (died 1948)1908 – Peg Entwistle , Welsh-American actress (died 1932)
1908 – Eugen Weidmann , German criminal (died 1939)
1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish violinist and composer (died 1969)1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond , French-Canadian biologist and academic (died 2007)1910 – Francisco Varallo , Argentinian footballer (died 2010)
1911 – Jussi Björling , Swedish tenor (died 1960)1914 – William S. Burroughs , American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1997)1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
1915 – Robert Hofstadter , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1990)1917 – Edward J. Mortola , American academic and president of Pace University (died 2002)1917 – Isuzu Yamada , Japanese actress (died 2012)
1919 – Red Buttons , American actor (died 2006)1919 – Tim Holt , American actor (died 1973)
1919 – Andreas Papandreou , Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1996)
1921 – Ken Adam , German-born English production designer and art director (died 2016)1923 – Claude King , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)1923 – James E. Bowman , American physician and academic (died 2011)
1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Indian cardinal (died 2014)1927 – Robert Allen , American pianist and composer (died 2000)1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten , Dutch captain and pilot (died 1977)
1928 – Hristu Cândroveanu , Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (died 2013)1928 – Tage Danielsson , Swedish author, actor, and director (died 1985)
1928 – Andrew Greeley , American priest, sociologist, and author (died 2013)
1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis , Israeli-American historian and political scientist (died 1997)
1929 – Hal Blaine , American session drummer (died 2019)1929 – Luc Ferrari , French pianist and composer (died 2005)
1929 – Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (died 2008)
1932 – Cesare Maldini , Italian footballer and manager (died 2016)1933 – Jörn Donner , Finnish director and screenwriter (died 2020)1933 – B. S. Johnson , English author, poet, and critic (died 1973)
1934 – Hank Aaron , American baseball player (died 2021)1934 – Don Cherry , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1935 – Alex Harvey , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1982)1935 – Johannes Geldenhuys , South African military commander (died 2018)
1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed , Indian poet and academic (died 2020)1937 – Stuart Damon , American actor and singer (died 2021)1937 – Larry Hillman , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)
1937 – Gaston Roelants , Belgian runner
1937 – Alar Toomre , Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician
1937 – Wang Xuan , Chinese computer scientist and academic (died 2006)
1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia , Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat (died 2024)1939 – Brian Luckhurst , English cricketer (died 2005)1939 – Jane Bryant Quinn , American financial journalist
1940 – H. R. Giger , Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (died 2014)1940 – Luke Graham , American wrestler (died 2006)
1941 – Stephen J. Cannell , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)1941 – Henson Cargill , American country music singer (died 2007)
1941 – David Selby , American actor and playwright
1941 – Barrett Strong , American soul singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2023)
1941 – Kaspar Villiger , Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation
1942 – Roger Staubach , American football player, sportscaster, and businessman1943 – Nolan Bushnell , American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc. 1943 – Michael Mann , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1943 – Craig Morton , American football player and sportscaster
1943 – Dušan Uhrin , Czech and Slovak footballer and manager
1944 – J. R. Cobb , American guitarist and songwriter (died 2019)1944 – Henfil , Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (died 1988)
1944 – Al Kooper , American singer-songwriter and producer
1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (died 1971)
1945 – Douglas Hogg , English lawyer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1946 – Amnon Dankner , Israeli journalist and author (died 2013)1946 – Charlotte Rampling , English actress
1947 – Mary L. Cleave , American engineer and astronaut (died 2023)1947 – Clemente Mastella , Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice
1947 – Darrell Waltrip , American race car driver and sportscaster
1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish footballer and manager (died 2024)1948 – Christopher Guest , British-American actor and director
1948 – Barbara Hershey , American actress
1948 – Errol Morris , American director and producer
1948 – Tom Wilkinson , English actor (died 2023)
1949 – Kurt Beck , German politician1949 – Maidarjavyn Ganzorig , Mongolian cosmonaut and academic (died 2021)
1949 – Yvon Vallières , Canadian educator and politician
1950 – Jonathan Freeman , American actor and singer1950 – Rafael Puente , Mexican footballer
1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin , Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia 1952 – Daniel Balavoine , French singer-songwriter and producer (died 1986)1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin , Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic
1953 – Freddie Aguilar , Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)1953 – John Beilein , American basketball player and coach
1953 – Gustavo Benítez , Paraguayan footballer and manager
1954 – Cliff Martinez , American drummer and songwriter1954 – Frank Walker , Australian journalist and author
1955 – Mike Heath , American baseball player and manager1956 – Vinnie Colaiuta , American drummer1956 – Héctor Rebaque , Mexican race car driver
1956 – David Wiesner , American author and illustrator
1956 – Mao Daichi , Japanese actress
1957 – Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician (died 2021)1959 – Jennifer Granholm , Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan 1960 – Aris Christofellis , Greek soprano and musicologist1960 – Bonnie Crombie , Canadian businesswoman and politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga
1960 – Micky Hazard , English footballer
1961 – Savvas Kofidis , Greek footballer and manager1961 – Tim Meadows , American actor and screenwriter
1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress, screenwriter, producer and director1963 – Steven Shainberg , American film director and producer1964 – Laura Linney , American actress1964 – Ha Seung-moo , Korean poet, pastor, historical theologian
1964 – Duff McKagan , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1965 – Tarik Benhabiles , Algerian-French tennis player and coach1965 – Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer and manager
1965 – Keith Moseley , American bass player and songwriter
1965 – Quique Sánchez Flores , Spanish footballer and manager
1965 – Jon Spencer , American singer, guitarist, and bandleader
1966 – José María Olazábal , Spanish golfer1966 – Rok Petrovič , Slovenian skier (died 1993)
1967 – Chris Parnell , American actor and comedian1968 – Roberto Alomar , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach1968 – Chris Barron , American rock singer
1968 – Marcus Grönholm , Finnish race car driver
1969 – Bobby Brown , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor1969 – Michael Sheen , Welsh actor and director
1969 – Derek Stephen Prince , American voice actor
1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin , Belgian basketball player and coach1970 – Darren Lehmann , Australian cricketer and coach
1970 – Jeremy Rockliff , Australian politician, 47th Premier of Tasmania
1971 – Michel Breistroff , French ice hockey player (died 1996)1971 – Sara Evans , American country singer
1972 – Queen Mary of Denmark 1972 – Brad Fittler , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1973 – Richard Matvichuk , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis , Dutch singer-songwriter
1973 – Luke Ricketson , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1974 – Michael Maguire , Australian rugby league player and coach1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst , Dutch footballer and manager1976 – John Aloisi , Australian footballer and manager1976 – Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor
1977 – Ben Ainslie , English sailor1977 – Adam Dykes , Australian rugby league player
1977 – Adam Everett , American baseball player and coach
1978 – Brian Russell , American football player1978 – Samuel Sánchez , Spanish cyclist
1979 – Nate Holzapfel , American entrepreneur and television personality1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick , American programmer, created LiveJournal 1980 – Jo Swinson , Scottish politician
1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve , French director and screenwriter1981 – Loukas Vyntra , Czech-Greek footballer
1982 – Laura del Río , Spanish footballer1982 – Kevin Everett , American football player
1982 – Tomáš Kopecký , Slovak ice hockey player
1982 – Rodrigo Palacio , Argentinian footballer
1983 – Anja Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player1984 – Carlos Tevez , Argentinian footballer1985 – Lloyd Johansson , Australian rugby player1985 – Laurence Maroney , American football player
1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Vedran Ćorluka , Croatian footballer1986 – Kevin Gates , American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur
1987 – Alex Brightman , American actor, singer, and voice actor1989 – Jeremy Sumpter , American actor
1990 – Dmitry Andreikin , Russian chess player1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar , Indian cricketer
1990 – Jordan Rhodes , Scottish footballer
1991 – Nabil Bahoui , Swedish footballer1991 – Gerald Tusha , Albanian footballer
1992 – Stefan de Vrij , Dutch footballer1992 – Neymar , Brazilian footballer
1993 – Leilani Latu , Australian rugby league player1993 – Ty Rattie , Canadian ice hockey player
1995 – Adnan Januzaj , Belgian-Albanian footballer1996 – Stina Blackstenius , Swedish footballer1997 – Patrick Roberts , English footballer2001 – Kim Min-ju , South Korean actress2002 – Jisung , South Korean rapper2002 – Taehyun , South Korean singer-songwriter2016 – Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck , Bhutanese princeDeaths
1661 – Shunzhi , Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (born 1638)1705 – Philipp Spener , German theologian and author (born 1635)1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau , French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (born 1668)1754 – Nicolaas Kruik , Dutch astronomer and cartographer (born 1678)1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , Austrian field marshal (born 1705)1775 – Eusebius Amort , German theologian and academic (born 1692)1790 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (born 1710)1807 – Pasquale Paoli , Corsican commander and politician (born 1725)1818 – Charles XIII , king of Sweden (born 1748)1881 – Thomas Carlyle , Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (born 1795)1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra , Spanish orientalist and diplomat (born 1841)1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish author (born 1807)1915 – Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager (born 1850)1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah , Kuwaiti ruler (born 1860)1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (born 1871)1927 – Inayat Khan , Indian mystic and educator (born 1882)1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias , Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1849)1933 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician (born 1863)1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé , Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1861)1938 – Hans Litten , German lawyer and jurist (born 1903)1941 – Banjo Paterson , Australian journalist, author, and poet (born 1864)1941 – Otto Strandman , Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (born 1875)
1946 – George Arliss , English actor and playwright (born 1868)1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz , German general (born 1883)1952 – Adela Verne , English pianist and composer (born 1877)1954 – Hossein Sami'i , Iranian politician, diplomat, writer and poet (born 1876)1955 – Victor Houteff , Bulgarian religious reformer and author (born 1885)1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad , Lebanese surgeon and author (born 1890)1962 – Jacques Ibert , French-Swiss composer (born 1890)1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean , American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (born 1872)1969 – Thelma Ritter , American actress (born 1902)1970 – Rudy York , American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1913)1972 – Marianne Moore , American poet, author, critic, and translator (born 1887)1976 – Rudy Pompilli , American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets ) (born 1926)1977 – Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist and academic (born 1894)1981 – Ella Grasso , American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (born 1919)1982 – Neil Aggett , Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (born 1953)1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff , American chemist and academic (born 1925)1984 – El Santo , Mexican professional wrestler (born 1917)1987 – William Collier Jr. , American actor and producer (born 1902)1989 – Joe Raposo , American pianist and composer (born 1937)1991 – Dean Jagger , American actor (born 1903)1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian , Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (born 1913)1993 – Seán Flanagan , Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (born 1922)1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
1993 – William Pène du Bois , American author and illustrator (born 1916)
1995 – Doug McClure , American actor (born 1935)1997 – Pamela Harriman , English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (born 1920)1997 – René Huyghe , French historian and author (born 1906)
1998 – Tim Kelly , American guitarist (born 1963)1999 – Wassily Leontief , Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)2000 – Claude Autant-Lara , French director and screenwriter (born 1901)2004 – John Hench , American animator (born 1908)2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma , Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (born 1937)2005 – Michalina Wisłocka , Polish gynecologist and sexologist (born 1921)
2006 – Norma Candal , Puerto Rican-American actress (born 1927)2007 – Leo T. McCarthy , New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (born 1930)2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (born 1918)2010 – Brendan Burke , Canadian ice hockey player and activist (born 1988)2010 – Harry Schwarz , South African lawyer, anti-apartheid leader, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (born 1924)
2011 – Brian Jacques , English author and radio host (born 1939)2011 – Peggy Rea , American actress and casting director (born 1921)
2012 – Sam Coppola , American actor (born 1932)2012 – Al De Lory , American keyboard player, conductor, and producer (born 1930)
2012 – John Turner Sargent Sr. , American publisher (born 1924)
2012 – Jo Zwaan , Dutch sprinter (born 1922)
2013 – Reinaldo Gargano , Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (born 1934)2013 – Egil Hovland , Norwegian composer and conductor (born 1924)
2013 – Tom McGuigan , New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (born 1921)
2014 – Robert Dahl , American political scientist and academic (born 1915)2015 – K. N. Choksy , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (born 1933)2015 – Marisa Del Frate , Italian actress and singer (born 1931)
2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
2015 – Herman Rosenblat , Polish-American author (born 1929)
2016 – Ciriaco Cañete , Filipino martial artist (born 1919)2020 – Kirk Douglas , American actor (born 1916)2021 – Örs Siklósi , Hungarian singer (born 1991)
2021 – Christopher Plummer , Canadian actor (born 1929)2023 – Pervez Musharraf , Pakistani military officer and politician, 10th President of Pakistan (born 1943)2024 – Toby Keith , American country singer (born 1961)2025 – Irv Gotti , American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records (born 1970)