January 10
January 10 this yearin various calendars Akan Monomemene Armenian 24 Arach 1475 Aztec Huei Tozoztli 20, 1 Tōchtli Babylonian 20 Kislimu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Menala, Paing, Maulu, Saniscara of Merakih, Yama, Erangan, Dewa Bengali 26 Poush , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Wood Monkey ・Root Mansion Wood Snake Year, Month 11 , Day 22Xiaohan , 10 days until Dahan )Common Era 10 January 2026 CE Coptic 2 Tobi , AM 1742Egyptian 29 Pachon , 2774 NE Ethiopian 2 Ṭer, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Primidi de Nivôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 10 January , AD 2026 Hebrew 21 Tevet , AM 5786 Hindu Hasta ・Atigaṇḍa Pauṣa , 1947 SE Saptamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Pauṣa , 2082 VE Siddhārthin ・5126 KY ・1,872,585 Icelandic Laugardagur, 18 Mörsugur 2025 Islamic 21 Rajab , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W02-6 Japanese 22 Shimotsuki , Reiwa 8Shōkan , 10 days until Daikan ) Julian 28 December , AD 2025 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461051 Korean 22 Jwidal , 4358 DE Maya 13.0.13.4.8 6 Muan , 1 Lamat Roman ante diem V Kalendas Ianuarias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 20 Dey , SH 1404 Tibetan 22 mgo, shing mo sbrul
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Day of the year
January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 355 days remain until the end of the year (356 in leap years ).
Events
– present1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas .1901 – New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.1916 – World War I : Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive , leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire ' s1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition : Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months.1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.1920 – League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany .
1927 – Fritz Lang 's futuristic film Metropolis 1941 – World War II : The Greek army captures Kleisoura .1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster . Fifty-one nations are represented.1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana , bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781 , a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 , explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea , killing 35 people.1966 – Tashkent Declaration , a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 .1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan .1980 – The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics , which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids .1981 – Salvadoran Civil War : The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.1984 – Holy See–United States relations : The United States and Holy See (Vatican City ) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress 's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications .2000 – Crossair Flight 498 , a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli , Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport , killing 13 people.2003 – North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons , making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.2012 – A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan .2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed , Karachi, killing at least 62 people.2019 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs , is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin , having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.Births
– 19001607 – Isaac Jogues , French priest and missionary (died 1646)1644 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers , French general (died 1711)1654 – Joshua Barnes , English historian and scholar (died 1712)1702 – Johannes Zick , German painter (died 1762)1715 – Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (died 1775)1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine , Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1823)1760 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , German composer and conductor (died 1802)1769 – Michel Ney , French general (died 1815)1776 – George Birkbeck , English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London (died 1841)1780 – Martin Lichtenstein , German physician and explorer (died 1857)1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega , Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (died 1860)1810 – Ferdinand Barbedienne , French engineer (died 1892)1810 – Jeremiah S. Black , American jurist and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of State (died 1883)
1810 – William Haines , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Victoria (died 1866)
1823 – Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev , Azerbaijani national industrial magnate and philanthropist (died 1924)1827 – Amanda Cajander , Finnish medical reformer (died 1871)1828 – Herman Koeckemann , German bishop and missionary (died 1892)1829 – Epameinondas Deligeorgis , Greek lawyer, journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1879)1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton , Italian-English historian and politician (died 1902)1840 – Louis-Nazaire Bégin , Canadian cardinal (died 1925)1842 – Luigi Pigorini , Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (died 1925)1843 – Frank James , American soldier and criminal (died 1915)1848 – Reinhold Sadler , American merchant and politician, 9th governor of Nevada (died 1906)1849 – Robert Crosbie , Canadian theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (died 1919)1850 – John Wellborn Root , American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (died 1891)1853 – Jessie Bond , mezzo-soprano roles in Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.(died 1942)1854 – Ramón Corral , Mexican general and politician, 6th Vice President of Mexico (died 1912)1858 – Heinrich Zille , German illustrator and photographer (died 1929)1859 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia , Spanish philosopher and academic (died 1909)1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts , Canadian poet and author (died 1943)1864 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (died 1931)1873 – Algernon Maudslay , English sailor (died 1948)1873 – Jack O'Neill , Irish-American baseball player (died 1935)
1873 – George Orton , Canadian runner and hurdler (died 1958)
1875 – Issai Schur , German mathematician and academic (died 1941)1877 – Frederick Gardner Cottrell , American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (died 1948)1878 – John McLean , American hurdler, football player, and coach (died 1955)1880 – Manuel Azaña , Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain (died 1940)1883 – Francis X. Bushman , American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1966)1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy , Russian journalist, author, and poet (died 1945)
1887 – Robinson Jeffers , American poet and philosopher (died 1962)1890 – Pina Menichelli , Italian actress (died 1984)1891 – Heinrich Behmann , German mathematician and academic (died 1970)1891 – Ann Shoemaker , American actress (died 1978)
1892 – Dumas Malone , American historian and author (died 1986)1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz , Polish soldier, journalist, and author (died 1974)
1893 – Albert Jacka , Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1932)1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam , Indian poet and author (died 1972)1895 – Percy Cerutty , Australian athletics coach (died 1975)1896 – Yong Mun Sen , Malaysian watercolour painter (died 1962)1896 – Dinkar G. Kelkar , Indian art collector (died 1990)
1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett , American physicist and engineer (died 1979)1900 – Violette Cordery , English racing driver (died 1983)– present1903 – Barbara Hepworth , English sculptor (died 1975)1903 – Voldemar Väli , Estonian wrestler (died 1997)
1904 – Ray Bolger , American actor and dancer (died 1987)1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal , American engineer and inventor (died 2003)1908 – Jaime Garcia Goulart , Portuguese Catholic missionary and bishop (died 1997)1908 – Paul Henreid , Italian-American actor and director (died 1992)
1908 – Bernard Lee , English actor (died 1981)
1910 – Jean Martinon , French conductor and composer (died 1976)1911 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury , Bangladeshi activist (died 2013)1911 – Norman Heatley , English biologist and chemist (died 2004)
1912 – Della H. Raney , American Army Air Corps officer (died 1987)1912 – Maria Mandl , Austrian Lagerführerin at Auschwitz koncentration camp (died 1948)
1913 – Gustáv Husák , Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (died 1991)1913 – Mehmet Shehu , Albanian soldier and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (died 1981)
1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa , Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (died 2000)1915 – Dean Dixon , American-Swiss conductor (died 1976)1915 – Cynthia Freeman , American author (died 1988)
1916 – Sune Bergström , Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)1916 – Eldzier Cortor , American painter (died 2015)
1916 – Don Metz , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)
1917 – Jerry Wexler , American journalist and producer (died 2008)1918 – Les Bennett , English footballer and manager (died 1999)1918 – Arthur Chung , Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (died 2008)
1919 – Terukuni Manzō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (died 1977)1919 – Milton Parker , American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (died 2009)
1920 – Rosella Hightower , American ballerina (died 2008)1920 – Roberto M. Levingston , Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (died 2015)
1921 – Rodger Ward , American aviator, race car driver and sportscaster (died 2004)1922 – Billy Liddell , Scottish-English footballer (died 2001)1924 – Earl Bakken , American inventor (died 2018)1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff , Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 1996)
1925 – Billie Sol Estes , American financier and businessman (died 2013)1926 – Musallam Bseiso , Palestinian journalist and politician (died 2017)1927 – Gisele MacKenzie , Canadian-American singer and actress (died 2003)1927 – Johnnie Ray , American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1990)
1927 – Otto Stich , Swiss lawyer and politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2012)
1928 – Philip Levine , American poet and academic (died 2015)1928 – Peter Mathias , English historian and academic (died 2016)
1930 – Roy E. Disney , American businessman (died 2009)1931 – Peter Barnes , English playwright and screenwriter (died 2004)1931 – Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids , Grenadian-English academic and politician (died 2025)
1931 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat , Malaysian cleric and politician, 12th Menteri Besar of Kelantan (died 2015)
1932 – Lou Henson , American college basketball coach (died 2020)1934 – Leonid Kravchuk , Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine (died 2022)1935 – Ronnie Hawkins , American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)1935 – Sherrill Milnes , American opera singer and educator
1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose , American historian and author (died 2002)1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson , American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Lucienne Stassaert , Belgian poet and painter (died 2026)
1938 – Elza Ibrahimova , Azerbaijani composer (died 2012)1938 – Donald Knuth , American computer scientist and mathematician
1938 – Frank Mahovlich , Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1938 – Willie McCovey , American baseball player (died 2018)
1939 – David Horowitz , American writer and activist (died 2025)1939 – Scott McKenzie , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2012)
1939 – Sal Mineo , American actor (died 1976)
1939 – Bill Toomey , American athlete
1940 – Godfrey Hewitt , English geneticist and academic (died 2013)1940 – K. J. Yesudas , Indian singer and music director
1941 – Tom Clarke , Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland 1942 – Graeme Gahan , Australian footballer and coach (died 2018)1943 – Jim Croce , American singer-songwriter (died 1973)1944 – Jeffrey Catherine Jones , American comics and fantasy artist (died 2011)1944 – William Sanderson , American actor
1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr. , American singer and actor (died 2016)
1945 – John Fahey , New Zealand-Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales (died 2020)1945 – Rod Stewart , British singer-songwriter
1945 – Gunther von Hagens , German anatomist, invented plastination
1947 – George Alec Effinger , American author (died 2002)1947 – James Morris , American opera singer
1947 – Peer Steinbrück , German politician, German Minister of Finance
1947 – Tiit Vähi , Estonian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Estonia
1948 – Remu Aaltonen , Finnish musician1948 – Donald Fagen , American singer-songwriter and musician
1948 – Bernard Thévenet , French cyclist and sportscaster
1949 – Kemal Derviş , Turkish economist and politician, Turkish Minister of Economy (died 2023)1949 – George Foreman , American boxer, actor, and businessman (died 2025)
1949 – Linda Lovelace , American pornographic actress and activist (died 2002)
1953 – Pat Benatar , American singer-songwriter1953 – Bobby Rahal , American race car driver
1954 – Baba Vaziroglu , Azerbaijani writer, poet and translator1955 – Michael Schenker , German musician and songwriter1956 – Shawn Colvin , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1956 – Antonio Muñoz Molina , Spanish author
1959 – Chandra Cheeseborough , American sprinter and coach1959 – Chris Van Hollen , American lawyer and politician
1959 – Fran Walsh , New Zealand screenwriter and producer
1960 – Richard Bartle , British game designer and academic1960 – Gurinder Chadha , Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Brian Cowen , Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
1960 – Benoît Pelletier , Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2024)
1961 – Evan Handler , American actor1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , Italian-American violinist, author, and educator
1962 – Michael Fortier , Canadian lawyer and politician1962 – Kathryn S. McKinley , American computer scientist and academic
1963 – Malcolm Dunford , New Zealand-Australian footballer1963 – Kira Ivanova , Russian figure skater (died 2001)
1964 – Brad Roberts , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist1966 – Jeremy Sims , Australian actor1968 – Zoe Tay , Singaporean actress and model1969 – Simone Bagel-Trah , German businessperson1970 – Alisa Marić , Serbian chess player and politician, Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports 1972 – Mohammed Benzakour , Moroccan-Dutch journalist, poet, and author1973 – Glenn Robinson , American basketball player1973 – Félix Trinidad , Puerto Rican boxer
1974 – Jemaine Clement , New Zealand comedian, actor, and musician1974 – Davide Dionigi , Italian footballer and manager
1974 – Steve Marlet , French footballer and coach
1974 – Bob Peeters , Belgian footballer and manager
1974 – Hrithik Roshan , Indian actor
1975 – Jake Delhomme , American football player1976 – Khairy Jamaluddin , Malaysian politician, Malaysian Minister of Health 1976 – Adam Kennedy , American baseball player
1977 – A. J. Bramlett , American basketball player1977 – Clark Haggans , American football player (died 2023)
1978 – Brent Smith , American singer and songwriter1978 – Tamina Snuka , American wrestler
1978 – Johan van der Wath , South African cricketer
1979 – Simone Cavalli , Italian footballer1979 – Silvia Kumpan-Takacs , Austrian politician
1979 – Henrik Tallinder , Swedish ice hockey player
1980 – Sarah Shahi , American actress1980 – Rastislav Staňa , Slovak ice hockey player
1981 – Jared Kushner , American real estate investor and political figure1981 – Belinda Snell , Australian basketball player
1982 – Julien Brellier , French footballer1982 – Tomasz Brzyski , Polish footballer
1984 – Marouane Chamakh , Moroccan footballer1984 – Ariane Friedrich , German high jumper
1984 – Kalki Koechlin , Indian actress
1985 – Robert Nilsson , Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player1986 – Kirsten Flipkens , Belgian tennis player1986 – Marcus Freeman , American football coach
1987 – César Cielo , Brazilian swimmer1988 – Leonard Patrick Komon , Kenyan runner1989 – Ali Gabr , Egyptian footballer1990 – John Carlson , American ice hockey player1990 – Martin Jones , Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Ishiura Shikanosuke , Japanese sumo wrestler
1990 – Cody Walker , Australian rugby league player
1991 – Chad Townsend , Australian rugby league player1993 – Tobias Rieder , German ice hockey player1996 – Budda Baker , American football player1996 – Matthew Dufty , Australian rugby league player
1996 – Dylan Edwards , Australian rugby league player
1996 – Ahmed Sayed , Egyptian footballer
1997 – Patrick Herbert , New Zealand rugby league player1997 – Blake Lawrie , Australian rugby league player
1999 – Mason Mount , English footballer1999 – Youssouf Fofana , French footballer
2000 – Erik Botheim , Norwegian footballer2000 – Reneé Rapp , American singer-songwriter and actress
2001 – Santi Aldama , Spanish basketball player2003 – Cesare Casadei , Italian footballerDeaths
Pre-1600
259 – Polyeuctus , Roman saint314 – Miltiades , pope of the Catholic Church681 – Agatho , pope of the Catholic Church976 – John I Tzimiskes , Byzantine emperor (born 925)987 – Pietro I Orseolo , doge of Venice (born 928)1055 – Bretislav I , duke of Bohemia1094 – Al-Mustansir Billah , Egyptian caliph (born 1029)1218 – Hugh I , king of Cyprus1276 – Gregory X , pope of the Catholic Church (born c.1210)1322 – Petrus Aureolus , scholastic philosopher1358 – Abu Inan Faris , Marinid ruler of Morocco (born 1329)1552 – Johann Cochlaeus , German humanist and controversialist (born 1479)– 19001645 – William Laud , English archbishop and academic (born 1573)1654 – Nicholas Culpeper , English botanist, physician, and astrologer (born 1616)1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont , French priest and historian (born 1637)1754 – Edward Cave , English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine 1761 – Edward Boscawen , English admiral and politician (born 1711)1778 – Carl Linnaeus , Swedish botanist and physician (born 1707)1794 – Georg Forster , German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (born 1754)1811 – Joseph Chénier , French poet, playwright, and politician (born 1764)1824 – Victor Emmanuel I , duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (born 1759)1828 – François de Neufchâteau , French poet, academic, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (born 1750)1829 – Gregorio Funes , Argentinian clergyman, historian, and educator (born 1749)1843 – Dimitrie Macedonski , Greek-Romanian captain and politician (born 1780)1851 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling , Prussian field marshal (born 1775)1855 – Mary Russell Mitford , English author and playwright (born 1787)1862 – Samuel Colt , American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (born 1814)1863 – Lyman Beecher , American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (born 1775)1895 – Benjamin Godard , French violinist and composer (born 1849)– present1901 – James Dickson , English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Australian Minister for Defence (born 1832)1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme , French painter and sculptor (born 1824)1905 – Kārlis Baumanis , Latvian composer (born 1835)1917 – Buffalo Bill , American soldier and hunter (born 1846)1917 – Feliks Leparsky , Russian fencer and captain (born 1875)
1920 – Sali Nivica , Albanian journalist and politician (born 1890)1922 – Frank Tudor , Australian politician, 6th Australian Minister for Trade and Investment (born 1866)1926 – Eino Leino , Finnish poet and journalist (born 1878)1935 – Edwin Flack , Australian tennis player and runner (born 1873)1935 – Charlie McGahey , English cricketer and footballer (born 1871)
1941 – Frank Bridge , English viola player and composer (born 1879)1941 – John Lavery , Irish painter and academic (born 1856)
1941 – Issai Schur , Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (born 1875)
1946 – Matti Turkia , Finnish politician (born 1871)1949 – Erich von Drygalski , German geographer and geophysicist (born 1865)1951 – Sinclair Lewis , American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)1951 – Yoshio Nishina , Japanese physicist and academic (born 1890)
1954 – Chester Wilmot , American journalist and historian (born 1911)1956 – Zonia Baber , American geographer and geologist (born 1862)1957 – Gabriela Mistral , Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)1959 – Şükrü Kaya , Turkish jurist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1883)1960 – Jack Laviolette , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1879)1961 – Dashiell Hammett , American detective novelist and screenwriter (born 1894)1967 – Charles E. Burchfield , American painter (born 1893)1968 – Ali Fuat Cebesoy , Turkish general and politician, 6th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (born 1882)1969 – Sampurnanand , Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (born 1891)1970 – Pavel Belyayev , Russian pilot and astronaut (born 1925)1971 – Coco Chanel , French fashion designer, founded Chanel (born 1883)1971 – Ignazio Giunti , Italian racing driver (born 1941)
1972 – Aksel Larsen , Danish lawyer and politician (born 1897)1976 – Howlin' Wolf , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1910)1978 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal , Nicaraguan journalist and author (born 1924)1978 – Don Gillis , American composer and conductor (born 1912)
1978 – Hannah Gluckstein , British painter (born 1895)
1981 – Fawn M. Brodie , American historian and author (born 1915)1984 – Souvanna Phouma , Laotian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Laos (born 1901)1986 – Jaroslav Seifert , Czech journalist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)1987 – Marion Hutton , American singer (born 1919)1987 – David Robinson , English businessman and philanthropist (born 1904)
1989 – Herbert Morrison , American journalist and producer (born 1905)1990 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (born 1925)1992 – Roberto Bonomi , Argentinian racing driver (born 1919)1995 – Kathleen Tynan , Canadian-English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1937)1997 – Elspeth Huxley , Kenyan-English journalist and author (born 1907)1997 – Sheldon Leonard , American actor, director, and producer (born 1907)
1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd , Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)
1999 – Edward Williams , Australian lieutenant, pilot, and judge (born 1921)2000 – Sam Jaffe , American screenwriter and producer (born 1901)2004 – Spalding Gray , American actor and screenwriter (born 1941)2005 – Wasyly , Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (born 1909)2005 – Jack Horner , American journalist (born 1912)
2005 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (born 1927)
2007 – Carlo Ponti , Italian film producer (born 1912)2007 – Bradford Washburn , American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (born 1910)
2008 – Christopher Bowman , American figure skater and actor (born 1967)2008 – Maila Nurmi , Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
2010 – Patcha Ramachandra Rao , Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (born 1942)2011 – María Elena Walsh , Argentine author and composer (born 1930)2011 – Margaret Whiting , American singer (born 1924)
2012 – Jean Pigott , Canadian businesswoman and politician (born 1924)2012 – Gevork Vartanian , Russian intelligence agent (born 1924)
2013 – George Gruntz , Swiss pianist and composer (born 1932)2013 – Claude Nobs , Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (born 1936)
2014 – Sam Berns , American activist (born 1996)2014 – Petr Hlaváček , Czech shoemaker and academic (born 1950)
2014 – Zbigniew Messner , Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (born 1929)
2014 – Larry Speakes , American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)
2014 – Dajikaka Gadgil , Indian jeweller (born 1915)
2015 – Junior Malanda , Belgian footballer (born 1994)2015 – Taylor Negron , American actor, playwright, and painter (born 1957)
2015 – Francesco Rosi , Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)
2015 – Robert Stone , American novelist and short story writer (born 1937)
2016 – David Bowie , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1947)2016 – Bård Breivik , Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (born 1948)
2016 – George Jonas , Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (born 1935)
2017 – Buddy Greco , American jazz and pop singer and pianist (born 1926)2017 – Clare Hollingworth , English journalist (born 1911)
2019 – Ross Lowell , American inventor, photographer & author (born 1926)2020 – Qaboos bin Said , ruler of Oman (born 1940)2022 – Joyce Eliason , American television personality (born 1934)2022 – Robert Durst , American real estate heir and convicted murderer (born 1943)2023 – Jeff Beck , English guitarist and songwriter (born 1944)2023 – Constantine II of Greece , King of Greece (1964-1973) (born 1940)
2025 – José Jiménez , Puerto Rican activist (born 1948)2025 – Bill McCartney , American football player and coach (born 1940)
2025 – Sam Moore , American soul singer-songwriter (born 1935)
2026 – Yeison Jiménez , Colombian singer, (born 1991)2026 – Bob Weir , American musician, (born 1947)