June 2
June 2 this yearin various calendars Akan Kwabene Armenian 17 Margach 1475 Aztec Teotleco 3, 1 Ozomahtli Babylonian 15 Ayaru, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Beteng, Jaya, Keliwon, Was, Anggara of Julungwangi, Guru, Jangur, Pati Bengali 19 Joishtho , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Fire Goat ・Tail Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 4 , Day 17Xiaoman , 3 days until Mangzhong )Common Era 2 June 2026 CE Coptic 25 Pashons , AM 1742Egyptian 17 Phaophi , 2775 NE Ethiopian 25 Genbot, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade II, Quartidi de Prairial de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 2 June , AD 2026 Hebrew 17 Sivan , AM 5786 Hindu Mūla ・Sādhya Jyeṣṭha , 1948 SE Dvitīyā , Kṛishna pakṣa of Adhika Jyeṣṭha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,728 Icelandic Þriðjudagur, 11 Skerpla 2026 Islamic 16 Dhu al-Hijjah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W23-2 Japanese 17 Uzuki , Reiwa 8Shōman , 4 days until Bōshu ) Julian 20 May , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461194 Korean 17 Baemdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.11.11 4 Zotz , 1 Chuen Roman ante diem XIII Kalendas Iunias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 12 Khordad , SH 1405 Tibetan 17 sa ga, me pho rta
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Day of the year
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 212 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1608 – The Colony of Virginia gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City , from Rouen , France.1676 – Franco-Dutch War : France ensures the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo .1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to be tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts ; she is found guilty the same day and hanged on June 10.1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion : At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan , Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse , then chasing a ball into the fort.1774 – Intolerable Acts : The Quartering Act of 1774 is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.1780 – The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.1793 – French Revolution : François Hanriot , leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat , setting the stage for the Reign of Terror .1805 – Napoleonic Wars : A Franco -Spanish fleet recaptures from the British the island of Diamond Rock , which guards the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France , Martinique.1848 – The Slavic Congress opens in Prague .1866 – The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie , but the raids end soon after.1878 - Nobiling assassination attempt by anarchist Karl Nobiling targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I .1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph .1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.1910 – Charles Rolls , a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited , becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.1941 – World War II : German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the villages of Kondomari and Alikianos .1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic : In a referendum , Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic . After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey becomes the first British coronation, and one of the first major international events, to be televised.1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948 .1958 – Aeronaves de México Flight 111 crashes on approach to Guadalajara International Airport , killing 45.1962 – During the FIFA World Cup , police intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.1966 – Surveyor program : Surveyor 1 Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon , becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado 's gas chamber , in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran are brutally suppressed, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement .
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky , and Ohio , killing 12.1997 – In Denver , Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 11 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-91 , the final mission of the Shuttle-Mir program .2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars . The European Space Agency 's Mars Express Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan .2010 – Twelve people are killed and eleven others injured in a spree shooting in Cumbria , England, before the perpetrator takes his own life.2012 – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution .2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India , formed from ten districts of northwestern Andhra Pradesh .2022 – Following a request from Ankara , the United Nations officially changes the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye ".2023 – A collision between two passenger trains and a parked freight train near the city of Balasor , Odisha in eastern India , results in 296 deaths and more than 1,200 people injured.Births
1602 – Rudolf Christian, Count of East Frisia , Ruler of East Frisia (died 1628)1621 – Rutger von Ascheberg , Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (died 1693)1621 – (baptized) Isaac van Ostade , Dutch painter (died 1649)
1638 – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (died 1709)1644 – William Salmon , English medical writer (died 1713)1731 – Martha Washington , First Lady of the United States (died 1802)1739 – Jabez Bowen , American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (died 1815)1740 – Marquis de Sade , French philosopher and politician (died 1814)1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro , Italian occultist and explorer (died 1795)1773 – John Randolph of Roanoke , American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia (died 1833)1774 – William Lawson , English-Australian explorer and politician (died 1850)1813 – Daniel Pollen , Irish-New Zealand politician, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1896)1823 – Gédéon Ouimet , Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (died 1905)1835 – Pope Pius X (died 1914)1838 – Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (died 1900)1840 – Thomas Hardy , English novelist and poet (died 1928)1840 – Émile Munier , French artist (died 1895)
1857 – Edward Elgar , English composer and educator (died 1934)1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup , Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
1861 – Concordia Selander , Swedish actress and manager (died 1935)1863 – Felix Weingartner , Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1942)1865 – George Lohmann , English cricketer (died 1901)1865 – Adelaide Casely-Hayford , Sierra Leone Creole advocate and activist for cultural nationalism (died 1960)
1866 – Jack O'Connor , American baseball player and manager (died 1937)1875 – Charles Stewart Mott , American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan (died 1973)1878 – Wallace Hartley , English violinist and bandleader (died 1912)1881 – Walter Egan , American golfer (died 1971)1891 – Thurman Arnold , American lawyer and judge (died 1969)1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi , Japanese admiral and pilot (died 1945)
1893 – Maire Comerford , Irish Republican (died 1982)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger , German animator and director (died 1981)1899 – Edwin Way Teale , American environmentalist and photographer (died 1980) 1904 – Frank Runacres , English painter and educator (died 1974)1904 – Johnny Weissmuller , Hungarian-American swimmer and actor (died 1984)
1907 – Dorothy West , American journalist and author (died 1998)1907 – John Lehmann , English poet and publisher (died 1987)
1910 – Hector Dyer , American sprinter (died 1990)1911 – Joe McCluskey , American runner (died 2002)1913 – Barbara Pym , English author (died 1980)1913 – Elsie Tu , English-Hong Kong educator and politician (died 2015)
1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi , Romanian spy (died 1992)1915 – Lester del Rey , American science fiction author (died 1993)
1917 – Heinz Sielmann , German photographer and director (died 2006)1918 – Ruth Atkinson , Canadian-American illustrator (died 1997)1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham , American journalist and author (died 2011)
1920 – Frank G. Clement , American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Tennessee (died 1969)1920 – Yolande Donlan , American-English actress (died 2014)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Polish-German author and critic (died 2013)
1920 – Tex Schramm , American businessman (died 2003)
1920 – Johnny Speight , English screenwriter and producer (died 1998)
1921 – Betty Freeman , American photographer and philanthropist (died 2009)1921 – Ernie Royal , American trumpet player (died 1983)
1921 – Sigmund Sternberg , Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist (died 2016)
1921 – András Szennay , Hungarian priest (died 2012)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem , Spanish director and screenwriter (died 2002)1921 – Clair Patterson , American geochemist, determined age of the earth, discovered ubiquitous lead poisoning (died 1995)
1922 – Charlie Sifford , American professional golfer (died 2015)
1922 – Carmen Silvera , Canadian-English actress (died 2002)
1923 – Lloyd Shapley , American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)1924 – June Callwood , Canadian journalist, author, and activist (died 2007)1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (died 1977)1926 – Milo O'Shea , Irish-American actor (died 2013)
1927 – W. Watts Biggers , American author, screenwriter, and animator (died 2013)1927 – Colin Brittan , English footballer (died 2013)
1928 – Erzsi Kovács , Hungarian singer (died 2014)1928 – Ron Reynolds , English footballer (died 1999)
1929 – Norton Juster , American architect, author, and academic (died 2021)1929 – Ken McGregor , Australian tennis player (died 2007)
1930 – Pete Conrad , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 1999)1933 – Sasao Gouland , governor of Chuuk State , Micronesia (died 2011)1933 – Lew "Sneaky Pete" Robinson , drag racer (died 1971)
1935 – Carol Shields , American-Canadian novelist and short story writer (died 2003)1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis , Greek poet and educator (died 2021)
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy , Ukrainian race walker (died 2021)1937 – Rosalyn Higgins , English lawyer and judge1937 – Sally Kellerman , American actress (died 2022)
1937 – Klaus-Michael Kühne , German billionaire and businessman (died 2026)
1937 – Jimmy Jones , American singer-songwriter (died 2012)
1937 – Robert Paul , Canadian figure skater and choreographer (died 2024)
1937 – Deric Washburn , American screenwriter and playwright
1938 – Kevin Brownlow , English historian and author1938 – George William Penrose, Lord Penrose , Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2025)
1939 – Charles Miller , American musician (died 1980)1939 – John Schlee , American golfer (died 2000)
1940 – Constantine II of Greece (died 2023)1941 – Stacy Keach , American actor (died 2026)1941 – Lou Nanne , Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1941 – Irène Schweizer , Swiss jazz pianist (died 2024)
1941 – Charlie Watts , English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2021)
1942 – Mike Ahern , Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (died 2023)1943 – Ivi Eenmaa , Estonian politician, 36th Mayor of Tallinn 1943 – Charles Haid , American actor and director
1943 – Crescenzio Sepe , Italian cardinal
1944 – Robert Elliott , American actor (died 2004)1944 – Marvin Hamlisch , American composer and conductor (died 2012)
1945 – Richard Long , English painter, sculptor, and photographer1945 – Bonnie Newman , American businesswoman and politician
1946 – Lasse Hallström , Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter1946 – Peter Sutcliffe , English serial killer (died 2020)
1948 – Jerry Mathers , American actor1949 – Heather Couper , English astronomer and physicist (died 2020)1949 – Frank Rich , American journalist and critic
1950 – Joanna Gleason , Canadian actress and singer1950 – Momčilo Vukotić , Serbian footballer and manager (died 2021)
1951 – Gilbert Baker , American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (died 2017)1951 – Arnold Mühren , Dutch footballer and manager
1951 – Larry Robinson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Alexander Wylie, Lord Kinclaven , Scottish lawyer, judge, and educator
1952 – Gary Bettman , American sports executive, 14th Commissioner of the National Hockey League 1953 – Vidar Johansen , Norwegian saxophonist1953 – Craig Stadler , American golfer
1953 – Cornel West , American philosopher, author, and academic
1954 – Dennis Haysbert , American actor and producer1955 – Dana Carvey , American comedian and actor1955 – Nandan Nilekani , Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
1955 – Mani Ratnam , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Michael Steele , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1956 – Jan Lammers , Dutch race car driver1957 – Mark Lawrenson , English footballer and manager1958 – Lex Luger , American wrestler and football player1959 – Rineke Dijkstra , Dutch photographer1959 – Lydia Lunch , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1960 – Olga Bondarenko , Russian runner1960 – Tony Hadley , English singer-songwriter and actor
1960 – Kyle Petty , American race car driver and sportscaster
1962 – Mark Plaatjes , South African-American runner and coach1963 – Anand Abhyankar , Indian actor (died 2012)1964 – Caroline Link , German director and screenwriter1965 – Mark Waugh , Australian cricketer and journalist1965 – Steve Waugh , Australian cricketer
1966 – Dayana Cadeau , Haitian born Canadian-American professional bodybuilder1966 – Candace Gingrich , American activist
1966 – Pedro Guerra , Spanish singer-songwriter
1966 – Catherine King , Australian politician
1966 – Petra van Staveren , Dutch swimmer
1967 – Remigija Nazarovienė , Lithuanian heptathlete and coach1967 – Mike Stanton , American baseball player
1967 – Nadhim Zahawi , British politician
1968 – Merril Bainbridge , Australian singer-songwriter1968 – Andy Cohen , American television host
1968 – Lester Green , American comedian and actor
1969 – Kurt Abbott , American baseball player1969 – Paulo Sérgio , Brazilian footballer
1969 – David Wheaton , American tennis player, radio host, and author
1970 – B Real , American rapper and actor1971 – Kateřina Jacques , Czech translator and politician1972 – Wayne Brady , American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer1972 – Raúl Ibañez , American baseball player
1972 – Wentworth Miller , American actor and screenwriter
1973 – Marko Kristal , Estonian footballer and manager1973 – Neifi Pérez , Dominican-American baseball player
1974 – Gata Kamsky , Russian-American chess player1974 – Matt Serra , American mixed martial artist
1975 – Salvatore Scibona , American author1976 – Earl Boykins , American basketball player1976 – Martin Čech , Czech ice hockey player (died 2007)
1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira , Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1977 – Teet Allas , Estonian footballer1977 – A.J. Styles , American wrestler
1977 – Zachary Quinto , American actor and producer
1978 – Dominic Cooper , English actor1978 – Nikki Cox , American actress
1978 – Yi So-yeon , biotechnologist and astronaut , the first Korean in space
1978 – Justin Long , American actor
1979 – Morena Baccarin , Brazilian-American actress1979 – Butterfly Boucher , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1980 – Fabrizio Moretti , Brazilian-American drummer1980 – Bobby Simmons , American basketball player
1980 – Richard Skuse , English rugby player
1980 – Abby Wambach , American soccer player and coach
1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski , Polish bass player and songwriter
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko , Russian tennis player1981 – Chin-hui Tsao , Taiwanese baseball player
1982 – Jewel Staite , Canadian actress1983 – Chris Higgins , American ice hockey player1983 – Toni Livers , Swiss skier
1984 – Jack Afamasaga , New Zealand rugby league player1984 – Feleti Mateo , Australian-Tongan rugby league player
1985 – Rhett Bomar , American football player1985 – Miyuki Sawashiro , Japanese voice actress and singer
1986 – Todd Carney , Australian rugby league player1987 – Clayton Bartolo , Maltese politician1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen , South African netball player
1987 – Yoann Huget , French rugby player
1987 – Matthew Koma , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Angelo Mathews , Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha , Indian actress
1988 – Sergio Agüero , Argentine footballer1988 – Awkwafina , American actress, rapper, and comedian
1988 – Staniliya Stamenova , Bulgarian canoeist
1989 – Steve Smith , Australian cricketer1990 – Dane Rampe , Australian rules footballer1992 – Pajtim Kasami , Swiss footballer1993 – Adam Taggart , Australian footballer1996 – Morissette , Filipina singer-songwriter1997 – Scott Wozniak , American YouTuber1999 – Campbell Graham , Australian rugby league player2000 – Jay Idzes , Indonesian footballer2001 – Kysaiah Pickett , Australian rules footballer2002 – Madison Hu , American actress2002 – Fonua Pole , New Zealand rugby league player Deaths
Pre-1600
657 – Pope Eugene I 891 – Al-Muwaffaq , Abbasid general (born 842)910 – Richilde of Provence (born 845)1200 – Bishop John of Oxford 1258 – Peter I, Count of Urgell 1292 – Rhys ap Maredudd , Welsh nobleman and rebel leader1418 – Katherine of Lancaster , queen of Henry III of Castile 1453 – Álvaro de Luna, Duke of Trujillo , Constable of Castile1567 – Shane O'Neill , head of the O'Neill dynasty in Ireland (born 1530)1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton , Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1525)1603 – Bernard of Wąbrzeźno , Roman Catholic priest (born 1575)1693 – John Wildman , English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1621)1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry , French author (born 1607)1716 – Ogata Kōrin , Japanese painter and educator (born 1658)1754 – Ebenezer Erskine , Scottish minister and theologian (born 1680)1761 – Jonas Alströmer , Swedish businessman (born 1685)1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves , French mathematician and academic (born 1713)1806 – William Tate , English painter (born 1747)1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre , English general (born 1777)1865 – Ner Middleswarth , American judge and politician (born 1783)1875 – Józef Kremer , Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (born 1806)1881 – Émile Littré , French lexicographer and philosopher (born 1801)1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian general and politician (born 1807)1901 – George Leslie Mackay , Canadian missionary and author (born 1844)1927 – Hüseyin Avni Lifij , Turkish painter (born 1886)1929 – Enrique Gorostieta , Mexican general (born 1889)1933 – Frank Jarvis , American runner and triple jumper (born 1878)1937 – Louis Vierne , French organist and composer (born 1870)1941 – Lou Gehrig , American baseball player (born 1903)1942 – Bunny Berigan , American singer and trumpet player (born 1908)1947 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton , English sailor and politician (born 1867)1948 – Viktor Brack , German physician (born 1904)1948 – Karl Brandt , German SS officer (born 1904)
1948 – Karl Gebhardt , German physician (born 1897)
1948 – Waldemar Hoven , German physician (born 1903)
1948 – Wolfram Sievers , German SS officer (born 1905)
1952 – Naum Torbov , Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (born 1880)1956 – Jean Hersholt , Danish-American actor and director (born 1886)1959 – Lyda Borelli , Italian actress (born 1884)1961 – George S. Kaufman , American director, producer, and playwright (born 1889)1962 – Vita Sackville-West , English author and poet (born 1892)1967 – Benno Ohnesorg , German student and activist (born 1940)1968 – André Mathieu , Canadian pianist and composer (born 1929)1969 – Leo Gorcey , American actor (born 1917)1970 – Orhan Kemal , Turkish author (born 1914)1970 – Albert Lamorisse , French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
1970 – Bruce McLaren , New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (born 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1888)
1970 – Lucía Sánchez Saornil , Spanish anarchist feminist (born 1895)
1974 – Hiroshi Kazato , Japanese race car driver (born 1949)1976 – Kenneth Mason , English soldier and geographer (born 1887)1976 – Juan José Torres , Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (born 1920)
1977 – Albert Bittlmayer , German footballer (born 1952)1977 – Stephen Boyd , Northern Irish-born American actor (born 1931)
1978 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste , Spanish footballer and coach (born 1895)1979 – Jim Hutton , American actor (born 1934)1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1904)1982 – Shah Abdul Wahhab , Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (born 1894)
1983 – Stan Rogers , Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1949)1983 – Ray Stehr , Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1913)
1986 – Aurèle Joliat , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1901)1987 – Anthony de Mello , Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (born 1931)1987 – Sammy Kaye , American bandleader and songwriter (born 1910)
1987 – Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (born 1893)
1988 – Raj Kapoor , Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1924)1989 – Ted a'Beckett , Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1907)1990 – Rex Harrison , English actor (born 1908)1991 – Ahmed Arif , Turkish poet and author (born 1927)1992 – Philip Dunne , American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908)1993 – Johnny Mize , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1913)1993 – Tahar Djaout , Algerian journalist, writer and poet (born 1954)
1994 – David Stove , Australian philosopher, author, and academic (born 1927)1996 – John Alton , Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (born 1901)1996 – Leon Garfield , English author (born 1921)
1996 – Ray Combs , American game show host (born 1956)
1997 – Doc Cheatham , American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (born 1905)1997 – Helen Jacobs , American tennis champion (born 1908)
1999 – Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican singer (born 1949)2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov , Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (born 1927)2000 – John Schlee , American golfer (born 1939)
2000 – Gerald James Whitrow , English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (born 1912)
2001 – Imogene Coca , American actress and comedian (born 1908)2001 – Joey Maxim , American boxer (born 1922)
2002 – Hugo van Lawick , Dutch director and photographer (born 1937)2003 – Freddie Blassie , American wrestler and manager (born 1918)2003 – Alma Ricard , Canadian broadcaster and philanthropist (born 1906)
2005 – Lucien Cliche , Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1916)2005 – Gunder Gundersen , Norwegian skier (born 1930)
2005 – Samir Kassir , Lebanese journalist and educator (born 1950)
2005 – Melita Norwood , English civil servant and spy (born 1912)
2006 – Keith Smith , English rugby player and coach (born 1952)2007 – Kentarō Haneda , Japanese pianist and composer (born 1949)2007 – Huang Ju , Chinese engineer and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1938)
2008 – Bo Diddley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)2008 – Mel Ferrer , American actor (born 1917)
2009 – David Eddings , American author (born 1931)2012 – Adolfo Calero , Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (born 1931)2012 – Richard Dawson , English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (born 1932)
2012 – LeRoy Ellis , American basketball player (born 1940)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten , American actress (born 1939)
2013 – Mario Bernardi , Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1930)2013 – Chen Xitong , Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (born 1930)
2013 – Mandawuy Yunupingu , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)
2014 – Ivica Brzić , Serbian footballer and manager (born 1941)2014 – Nikolay Khrenkov , Russian bobsledder (born 1984)
2014 – Alexander Shulgin , American pharmacologist and chemist (born 1925)
2015 – Fernando de Araújo , East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (born 1963)2015 – Irwin Rose , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
2024 – Larry Allen , American football player (born 1971)2024 – Rob Burrow , English rugby league footballer (born 1982)
2024 – David Levy , Israeli politician (born 1937)
2024 – Janis Paige , American actress and singer (born 1922)