• 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
• 1277 – Treaty of Aberconwy brings to an end the first of the Welsh Wars.
• 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
• 1330 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
• 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
• 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
• 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
• 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
• 1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
• 1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
• 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
• 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor (Consulate Government).
• 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
• 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
• 1867 – Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• 1883 – The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.
• 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• 1888 – The mutilated body of Mary Jane Kelly, believed to be the final victim of Jack the Ripper, is discovered in Spitalfields, London, England.
• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
• 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
• 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
• 1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
• 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
• 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
• 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
• 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
• 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
• 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
• 1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
• 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
• 1965 – A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
• 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1979 – Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
• 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
• 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
• 1989 –  Pradeep Kumar P T, born Nick Name PT, ), Madurai, Tamilnadu.
• 1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
• 1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
• 1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
• 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
• 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• 2005 – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
• 2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
• 2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
• 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
• 2016 – Donald Trump is declared the winner of the US Presidential Election

• 955 – Gyeongjong, Korean king (d. 981)
• 1383 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
• 1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England (d. 1409)
• 1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
• 1455 – Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz, Dutch count (d. 1516)
• 1467 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (d. 1538)
• 1467 – Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (d. 1547)
• 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (d. 1586)
• 1535 – Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (d. 1600)
• 1580 – Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (d. 1637)
• 1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (d. 1681)
• 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
• 1664 – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (d. 1695)
• 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian singer and composer (d. 1760)
• 1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic (d. 1796)
• 1721 – Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (d. 1770)
• 1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1787)
• 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author (d. 1806)
• 1732 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author (d. 1776)
• 1773 – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author (d. 1856)
• 1799 – Gustav, Prince of Vasa (d. 1877)
• 1801 – Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk (d. 1874)
• 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (d. 1837)
• 1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic (d. 1887)
• 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1883)
• 1825 – A. P. Hill, American general (d. 1865)
• 1829 – Peter Lumsden, English general (d. 1918)
• 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (d. 1873)
• 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
• 1841 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
• 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (d. 1929)
• 1853 – Stanford White, American architect and partner, co-founded McKim, Mead & White (d. 1906)
• 1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, American activist and author (d. 1948)
• 1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter and educator (d. 1936)
• 1867 – Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)
• 1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1934)
• 1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (d. 1953)
• 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1941)
• 1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon (d. 1941)
• 1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (d. 1954)
• 1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
• 1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (d. 1938)
• 1878 – Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (d. 1959)
• 1879 – S. O. Davies, Welsh union leader and politician (d. 1972)
• 1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician (d. 1931)
• 1880 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box (d. 1960)
• 1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954)
• 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
• 1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (d. 1952)
• 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
• 1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1983)
• 1892 – Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
• 1894 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1894 – Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II
• 1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961)
• 1902 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
• 1904 – Viktor Brack, German SS officer (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (d. 1947)
• 1905 – Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Paulene Myers, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (d. 2000)
• 1915 – André François, Romanian-French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Sargent Shriver, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (d. 2011)
• 1916 – Martha Settle Putney, American lieutenant, historian, and educator (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
• 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (d. 2001)
• 1920 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1965)
• 1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1974)
• 1923 – Alice Coachman, American high jumper (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Elizabeth Hawley, American-Nepali journalist and historian (d. 2018)
• 1923 – James Schuyler, American poet and author (d. 1991)
• 1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director
• 1925 – Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (d. 2017)
• 1926 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet and academic (d. 1974)
• 1929 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player and manager
• 1931 – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Valery Shumakov, Russian surgeon and transplantologist (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Ed Corney, American professional bodybuilder
• 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (d. 1996)
• 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player and manager
• 1935 – David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician
• 1936 – Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida
• 1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1937 – Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
• 1937 – Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic
• 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
• 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
• 1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic
• 1939 – Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
• 1941 – David Constant, English cricketer and umpire
• 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
• 1941 – John Singleton, Australian businessman
• 1942 – Victor Blank, English businessman and philanthropist
• 1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1944 – Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Phil May, English singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist and academic
• 1946 – Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Marina Warner, English author and academic
• 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor, singer, and pianist
• 1948 – Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
• 1948 – Joe Bouchard, American bass player and songwriter
• 1948 – Jane Humphries, English economist, historian, and academic
• 1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1950 – Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
• 1952 – Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician
• 1952 – Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
• 1954 – Aed Carabao, Thai singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Bob Nault, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Sean Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Demetra Plakas, American drummer
• 1960 – Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
• 1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
• 1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, director, and producer
• 1965 – Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
• 1965 – Andrei Lapushkin, Russian footballer
• 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
• 1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
• 1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist and educator
• 1968 – Colin Hay, English political scientist, author, and academic
• 1969 – Sandra Denton, Jamaican-American rapper and actress
• 1969 – Ramona Milano, Canadian actress
• 1969 – Roxanne Shanté, American rapper
• 1969 – Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer and coach
• 1970 – Domino, American DJ and producer
• 1970 – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
• 1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 – Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler
• 1970 – Scarface, American rapper and producer
• 1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – David Duval, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1971 – Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer and manager
• 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
• 1972 – Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1972 – Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
• 1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
• 1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
• 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
• 1975 – Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
• 1975 – Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer
• 1976 – Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager
• 1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
• 1978 – Steven López, American martial artist
• 1978 – Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
• 1978 – Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1979 – Dave Bush, American baseball player
• 1979 – Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model
• 1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
• 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
• 1980 – James Harper, English footballer
• 1980 – Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress
• 1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
• 1981 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (d. 2010)
• 1981 – Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player
• 1981 – Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
• 1982 – Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer
• 1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler
• 1983 – Rob Elloway, German rugby player
• 1983 – Ted Potter Jr., American golfer
• 1983 – Michael Turner, English footballer
• 1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1984 – Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
• 1984 – Ku Hye Sun, South Korean actress, director, singer
• 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
• 1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Raul Must, Estonian badminton player
• 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1988 – Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress, and figure skater
• 1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
• 1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
• 1993 – Pete Dunne, English wrestler and promoter

• 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b. 905)
• 1034 – Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (b. c. 975)
• 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (b. 1107)
• 1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1154)
• 1261 – Sanchia of Provence, queen consort of Germany
• 1286 – Roger Northwode, English statesman (b. 1230)
• 1312 – Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1261)
• 1321 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)
• 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
• 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
• 1596 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (b. 1556)
• 1623 – William Camden, English historian and topographer (b. 1551)
• 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1610)
• 1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (b. 1692)
• 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1693)
• 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (b. 1745)
• 1848 – Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
• 1854 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
• 1880 – Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1911 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1918 – Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 – Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
• 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
• 1940 – Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)
• 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• 1942 – Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (b. 1886)
• 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
• 1953 – Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
• 1953 – Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1880)
• 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1956 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (b. 1872)
• 1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
• 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1972 – Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
• 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (b. 1924)
• 1988 – John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (b. 1904)
• 1992 – William Hillcourt, Danish-American scout leader and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 – T. Sivasithamparam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (b. 1925)
• 1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and curator (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Art Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English-American painter (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Mario Merz, Italian artist (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian physician and author (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Iris Chang, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and manager (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1954)
• 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
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Oscar-winning Love Story composer Francis Lai dies at 86

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Oscar-winning French composer Francis Lai has died at the age of 86.

He was best-known for winning the prize for composing the memorable piano theme to the 1970 film Love Story.

Crooner Andy Williams also released (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story in 1971, which was a hit single, peaking at number nine in the US chart. 

Lai also wrote the score for the 1966 film A Man and a Woman, with one song later chosen as BBC's Panorama's dramatic theme music.

He was born in Nice and played the accordion and piano, bug moved to Paris in his 20s, where he became accompanist for French singer Edith Piaf.

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Lai then went on to collaborate many times with A Man and a Woman director Claude Lelouch, composing music for him for nearly 40 projects.

These included Edith and Marcel in 1983, A Man and a Woman, 20 Years Later in 1986 and their final film together, last year's Everyone's Life.

The news of his death was reposted by Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi, who did not reveal the cause.

"It is with great sadness that I learn of the death of Francis Lai, this great composer from Nice," Estrosi told local press. 

"I will soon propose to his family to give his name to an emblematic place of our city," added former president of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob.

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