On This Day: September 30 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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2016 Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007. ↗
2016 Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002. ↗
2009 The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead. ↗
2005 Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper. ↗
2000 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada. ↗
1999 The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident. ↗
1994 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68. ↗
1993 The 6.2 Mw  Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000. ↗
1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. ↗
1978 Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland. ↗
1975 Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60. ↗
1970 Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings. ↗
1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time. ↗
1966 Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. ↗
1960 The Flintstones animated sitcom premieres on ABC television. ↗
1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. ↗
1949 The Berlin Airlift ends. ↗
1947 The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field. ↗
1947 Pakistan joins the United Nations. ↗
1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43. ↗
1944 World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden. ↗
1943 The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt. ↗
1941 World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end. ↗
1939 World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile. ↗
1939 NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game. ↗
1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. ↗
1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations". ↗
1936 American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. The race takes 18 ½ days. ↗
1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. ↗
1918 Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka. ↗
1915 World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire. ↗
1909 The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years. ↗
1907 The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio. ↗
1906 The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain. ↗
1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. ↗
1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation. ↗
1863 Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris. ↗
1791 The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death. ↗
1791 France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly. ↗
1744 War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia. ↗
1736 The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons. ↗
1551 A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned. ↗
1541 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. ↗
1520 Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire. ↗
1399 Henry IV is proclaimed king of England. ↗
1342 Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War. ↗
1139 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people. ↗
737 The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train. ↗
489 The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time. ↗

2002 Levi Miller, Australian actor and model ↗
2002 Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress ↗
1998 Landon Dickerson, American football player ↗
1998 Yui Imaizumi, Japanese actress, singer, model, and television personality ↗
1998 Trevi Moran, American YouTuber and singer ↗
1997 Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian gymnast ↗
1997 Max Verstappen – Dutch race car driver ↗
1996 Aaron Holiday, American basketball player ↗
1994 Aliya Mustafina, Russian gymnast ↗
1992 Bria Hartley, French-American basketball player ↗
1992 Ezra Miller, American actor and singer ↗
1991 David Bakhtiari, American football player ↗
1991 Joffrey Lauvergne, French basketball player ↗
1991 Thomas Röhler, German javelin thrower ↗
1989 Jasmine Thomas, American basketball player ↗
1988 Natalie Eggermont, Belgian politician ↗
1987 Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano ↗
1987 Kenley Jansen, Curaçaoan baseball player ↗
1986 Olivier Giroud, French footballer ↗
1986 Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer ↗
1986 Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter ↗
1986 Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer ↗
1985 Adam Cooney, Australian footballer ↗
1985 Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author ↗
1985 Cristian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer ↗
1984 T-Pain, American rapper, producer, and actor ↗
1983 Adam Jones, American football player and analyst ↗
1983 Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast ↗
1982 Lacey Chabert, American actress ↗
1982 Ryane Clowe, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1982 Kieran Culkin, American actor ↗
1982 Andrew Hastie, Australian politician ↗
1982 Seth Smith, American baseball player ↗
1981 Cecelia Ahern, Irish author ↗
1981 Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast ↗
1980 Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player ↗
1980 Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player ↗
1980 Toni Trucks, American actress ↗
1979 Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach ↗
1979 Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer ↗
1978 Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish volleyball player ↗
1978 Candice Michelle, American wrestler ↗
1977 Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager ↗
1977 Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2012) ↗
1975 Jay Asher, American author ↗
1975 Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist ↗
1975 Marion Cotillard – French actress and singer ↗
1975 Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player ↗
1975 Laure Pequegnot, French skier ↗
1975 Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician, and composer ↗
1974 Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player (died 2022) ↗
1974 Tom Greatrex, English politician ↗
1974 Daniel Wu, American–born Hong Kong actor, director, and producer ↗
1973 Rubén Wolkowyski, Argentine basketball player ↗
1972 Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster ↗
1972 Ari Behn, Danish-Norwegian author and playwright (died 2019) ↗
1972 Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter ↗
1972 José Lima, Dominican baseball player (died 2010) ↗
1971 Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer ↗
1970 Tony Hale, American actor and producer ↗
1970 Damian Mori, Australian footballer and manager ↗
1970 Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player ↗
1969 Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player ↗
1969 Amy Landecker, American actress ↗
1969 Silas Weir Mitchell, American actor ↗
1969 Chris von Erich, American wrestler (died 1991) ↗
1967 Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss-French author and illustrator ↗
1967 Gibby Haynes, American musician, radio personality and painter ↗
1967 Andrea Roth, Canadian actress ↗
1966 Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player ↗
1966 Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator ↗
1966 Angus Taylor, Australian politician ↗
1965 Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer ↗
1965 Club Chalamet, an American social media personality ↗
1964 Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ↗
1964 Monica Bellucci – Italian actress and fashion model ↗
1963 David Barbe, American bass player and producer ↗
1962 Marley Marl, American record producer and rapper ↗
1961 Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer-songwriter ↗
1961 Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player ↗
1961 Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer ↗
1961 Mel Stride, English politician ↗
1961 Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver ↗
1960 Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer ↗
1960 Nicola Griffith, English-American author ↗
1960 Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ↗
1960 Blanche Lincoln, American politician ↗
1959 Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach ↗
1958 Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1957 Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1956 Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager ↗
1955 Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems ↗
1955 Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (died 1994) ↗
1954 Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and record producer ↗
1954 John Drew, American basketball player (died 2022) ↗
1954 Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer ↗
1954 Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer ↗
1954 Barry Williams, American actor ↗
1953 Matt Abts, American drummer ↗
1953 Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress ↗
1952 John Finn, American actor ↗
1952 John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1951 John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer ↗
1951 Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1951 Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic ↗
1950 Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter ↗
1950 Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer ↗
1949 Michel Tognini, French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut ↗
1948 Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (died 2006) ↗
1947 Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977) ↗
1947 Rula Lenska, English actress ↗
1946 Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer ↗
1946 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords ↗
1946 Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993) ↗
1946 Jochen Mass, German race car driver (died 2025) ↗
1946 Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator ↗
1946 Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism ↗
1945 Richard Edwin Hills, English astronomer and academic (died 2022) ↗
1945 Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel ↗
1944 Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter ↗
1944 Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (died 2006) ↗
1944 Red Robbins, American basketball player (died 2009) ↗
1943 Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1943 Marilyn McCoo, American singer ↗
1943 Philip Moore, English organist and composer ↗
1943 Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author ↗
1942 Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (died 2002) ↗
1942 Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (died 1968) ↗
1941 Samuel F. Pickering Jr., American author and educator ↗
1941 Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General ↗
1941 Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver (died 2022) ↗
1940 Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (died 2015) ↗
1940 Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (died 1982) ↗
1940 Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (died 2009) ↗
1939 Len Cariou, Canadian actor ↗
1939 Anthony Green, English painter and academic (died 2023) ↗
1939 Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
1938 Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (died 2012) ↗
1937 Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (died 1997) ↗
1937 Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer ↗
1937 Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (died 1962) ↗
1936 Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (died 2024) ↗
1936 Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (died 1976) ↗
1935 Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor ↗
1934 Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (died 2009) ↗
1934 Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2014) ↗
1934 Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (died 2015) ↗
1933 Cissy Houston, American singer (died 2024) ↗
1932 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (died 2022) ↗
1932 Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (died 2008) ↗
1931 Angie Dickinson, American actress ↗
1931 Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (died 2015) ↗
1929 Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (died 2002) ↗
1929 Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic (died 2022) ↗
1929 Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino politician, diplomat and writer (died 2017) ↗
1929 Dorothee Sölle, German theologian and author (died 2003) ↗
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016) ↗
1928 Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (died 2013) ↗
1927 W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (died 2019) ↗
1926 Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2012) ↗
1926 Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2010) ↗
1925 Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and scientist in the former Soviet space program (died 1998) ↗
1924 Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1984) ↗
1923 Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (died 1994) ↗
1922 Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (died 2010) ↗
1922 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006) ↗
1921 Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (died 2007) ↗
1921 Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator (died 2018) ↗
1919 Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (died 1992) ↗
1919 Elizabeth Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2008) ↗
1919 William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (died 2013) ↗
1919 Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (died 2012) ↗
1918 Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army captain (died 1995) ↗
1918 René Rémond, French historian and economist (died 2007) ↗
1917 Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (died 2014) ↗
1917 Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (died 1987) ↗
1915 Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (died 2003) ↗
1913 Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (died 1975) ↗
1912 Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (died 1985) ↗
1911 Gustave Gilbert, American psychologist (died 1977) ↗
1910 Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain (died 1962) ↗
1908 David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 1974) ↗
1906 Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996) ↗
1905 Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996) ↗
1905 Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1990) ↗
1904 Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (died 1971) ↗
1901 Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (died 1966) ↗
1898 Renée Adorée, French-American actress (died 1933) ↗
1898 Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (died 1977) ↗
1898 Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (died 1986) ↗
1897 Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (died 1966) ↗
1897 Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician and psychotherapist (died 1986) ↗
1895 Lewis Milestone, Moldovan-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1980) ↗
1893 Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1964) ↗
1887 Lil Dagover, Indonesian-German actress (died 1980) ↗
1883 Bernhard Rust, German educator and politician (died 1945) ↗
1883 Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist (died 1971) ↗
1882 Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (died 1945) ↗
1870 Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (died 1948) ↗
1870 Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1942) ↗
1863 Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (died 1928) ↗
1861 William Wrigley Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (died 1932) ↗
1852 Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator (died 1924) ↗
1836 Remigio Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian politician, 56th President of Peru (died 1894) ↗
1832 Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (died 1905) ↗
1827 Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (died 1918) ↗
1827 Peter Ward, New York politician (died 1891) ↗
1814 Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, American feminist, educator, and philanthropist (died 1900) ↗
1813 John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (died 1893) ↗
1800 Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse (died 1881) ↗
1765 José María Morelos, Mexican priest and general (died 1815) ↗
1743 Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (died 1813) ↗
1732 Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1804) ↗
1714 Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (died 1780) ↗
1710 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1771) ↗
1700 Stanisław Konarski, Polish monk, poet, and playwright (died 1773) ↗
1689 Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (died 1753) ↗
1622 Johann Sebastiani, German composer (died 1683) ↗
1550 Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1631) ↗
1530 Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (died 1606) ↗
1227 Pope Nicholas IV (died 1292) ↗
1207 Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (died 1273) ↗

2024 Gavin Creel, American actor, singer and songwriter (born 1976) ↗
2024 Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player (born 1966) ↗
2024 Humberto Ortega, Nicaraguan military leader (born 1947) ↗
2024 Ken Page, American actor and cabaret singer (born 1954) ↗
2024 Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager (born 1941) ↗
2021 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer and orchestrator (born 1931) ↗
2019 Victoria Braithwaite, British research scientist who proved fish feel pain (born 1967) ↗
2018 Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (born 1945) ↗
2018 Geoffrey Hayes, British television presenter and actor (born 1942) ↗
2018 Sonia Orbuch, Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War and Holocaust educator. (born 1925) ↗
2017 Monty Hall, American game show host (born 1921) ↗
2017 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (born 1966) ↗
2015 Guido Altarelli, Italian-Swiss physicist and academic (born 1941) ↗
2015 Claude Dauphin, French businessman (born 1951) ↗
2015 Göran Hägg, Swedish author and critic (born 1947) ↗
2014 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) ↗
2013 Janet Powell, Australian educator and politician (born 1942) ↗
2012 Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (born 1922) ↗
2012 Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (born 1917) ↗
2012 Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (born 1948) ↗
2012 Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (born 1913) ↗
2012 Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (born 1928) ↗
2012 Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (born 1956) ↗
2011 Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (born 1971) ↗
2011 Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943) ↗
2010 Stephen J. Cannell, American screenwriter and producer (born 1941) ↗
2008 J. B. Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (born 1926) ↗
2004 Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, director, and politician (born 1936) ↗
2004 Jacques Levy, American director and songwriter (born 1935) ↗
2004 Michael Relph, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915) ↗
2003 Yusuf Bey, American activist, founded Your Black Muslim Bakery (born 1935) ↗
2003 Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939) ↗
2003 Robert Kardashian, American lawyer and businessman (born 1944) ↗
2002 Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (born 1966) ↗
2002 Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1913) ↗
1998 Marius Goring, English actor (born 1912) ↗
1998 Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (born 1953) ↗
1998 Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (born 1912) ↗
1994 André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902) ↗
1991 Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1938) ↗
1990 Rob Moroso, American race car driver (born 1968) ↗
1990 Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (born 1930) ↗
1990 Patrick White – Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912) ↗
1989 Drew Shafer, American LGBT rights activist (born 1936) ↗
1989 Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (born 1896) ↗
1988 Al Holbert, American race car driver (born 1946) ↗
1987 Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (born 1913) ↗
1986 Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (born 1908) ↗
1985 Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (born 1900) ↗
1985 Simone Signoret, French actress (born 1921) ↗
1978 Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (born 1903) ↗
1977 Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (born 1924) ↗
1974 Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (born 1915) ↗
1973 Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (born 1902) ↗
1961 Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1888) ↗
1959 Henry Barwell, Australian politician, 28th Premier of South Australia (born 1877) ↗
1955 James Dean, American actor (born 1931) ↗
1946 Takashi Sakai, Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (born 1887) ↗
1943 Franz Oppenheimer, German-American sociologist and economist (born 1864) ↗
1942 Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (born 1919) ↗
1921 Fanya Baron, Lithuanian Jewish anarchist (born 1887) ↗
1910 Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (born 1838) ↗
1897 Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (born 1873) ↗
1891 Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1837) ↗
1866 Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, Swedo-Finnish treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President P. E. Svinhufvud (born 1804) ↗
1865 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (born 1800) ↗
1770 Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1695) ↗
1770 George Whitefield, English-American priest and theologian (born 1714) ↗
1628 Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1554) ↗
1626 Nurhaci, Chinese emperor (born 1559) ↗
1581 Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (born 1518) ↗
1572 Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1510) ↗
1560 Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (born 1525) ↗
1551 Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (born 1507) ↗
1487 John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1400) ↗
1440 Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Welsh soldier and politician (born 1362) ↗
1376 Adelaide of Vianden, German countess ↗
1288 Leszek II the Black, Polish prince, Duke of Łęczyca, Sieradz, Kraków, Sandomierz (born 1241) ↗
1246 Yaroslav II of Vladimir (born 1191) ↗
1101 Anselm IV, Italian archbishop ↗
954 Louis IV of France (born 920) ↗
940 Fan Yanguang, Chinese general ↗
653 Honorius of Canterbury, Italian archbishop and saint ↗
420 Jerome, Roman priest, theologian, and saint ↗