Δύο ελληνικές παραλίες-έκπληξη στη λίστα με τις 7 καλύτερες της Μεσογείου! 

Μία λίστα με τις 7 καλύτερες παραλίες της Μεσογείου δημοσίευσε το διεθνές ταξιδιωτικό site  travelnpleasure.com. Δύο ελληνικές φιγουράρουν στη λίστα!

Και δεν είναι ούτε η Κόκκινη Παραλία της Μυκόνου, ούτε το Ελαφονήσι, ούτε το Ναυάγιο. Η Πλάκα Νάξου και ο Άγιος Γόρδιος Κέρκυρας είναι οι δύο παραλίες που ξεχώρισαν σε όλη τη Μεσόγειο! 

Πλάκα Νάξου: "Το πιο πράσινο νησί της Ελλάδας, η Νάξος, διαθέτει εύφορες πεδιάδες και ψηλά βουνά. Επίσης είναι γεμάτο από παρθένες παραλίες και εντυπωσιακά τοπία. Η ενδοχώρα της Νάξου θεωρείται ως ένας από τους κορυφαίους προορισμούς του διεθνούς τζετ σετ. Η παραλία Πλάκα είναι μία από τις καλύτερες παραλίες του νησιού και ιδιαίτερα δημοφιλής για την έκταση της αμμουδιάς της. Πίσω από την παραλία βρίσκονται αμμόλοφοι που προσελκύουν πολλους επισκέπτες. Επομένως, η Πλάκα δικαιολογεί εύκολα την παρουσία της ανάμεσα στις καλύτερες παραλίες της Μεσογείου", αναφέρει το δημοσίευμα.

Ενώ για τον Άγιο Γόρδιο Κέρκυρας αναφέρει τα εξής:  "Άλλος ένας προορισμός παραλίας στην Ελλάδα είναι το νησί της Κέρκυρας, το οποίο διαθέτει μερικές από τις ομορφότερες παραλίες στη Μεσόγειο. Μία από αυτές είναι ο Άγιος Γόρδιος, μια παρθένα και ήρεμη περιοχή που διαθέτει μια πραγματικά εντυπωσιακή παραλία. Είναι ο ιδανικός προορισμός για να αποφύγετε τα μεγάλα πλήθη".

Δείτε και τις 7 παραλίες...

Paraggi Beach - Πορτοφίνο, Ιταλία

Παραλία Πλάκα - Νάξος

Άγιος Γόρδιος - Κέρκυρα

Carmel Beach - Χάιφα, Ισραήλ

Port Grimaud Beach - Γαλλία

Plage de Bestouan - Cassis, Γαλλία

Giardini- Naxos Beach - Taormina, Ιταλία

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• 769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
• 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
• 1395 – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the throne.
• 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
• 1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
• 1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
• 1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
• 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
• 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
• 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
• 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
• 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
• 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
• 1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
• 1907 – Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
• 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• 1921 – Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
• 1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
• 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
• 1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• 1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
• 1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
• 1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
• 1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
• 1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.
• 1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
• 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
• 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
• 1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
• 1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
• 1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
• 1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
• 1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
• 1983 – Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.
• 1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
• 1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
• 1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
• 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
• 1994 – Conclusion of the Uruguay Round(eight round) of GATT, officially establishing WTO.
• 2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
• 2014 – More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.

Births[edit]

• 1282 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1329)
• 1367 – Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
• 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
• 1469 – Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (d. 1539)
• 1552 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
• 1588 – Claudius Salmasius, French author and scholar (d. 1653)
• 1641 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722)
• 1642 – Suleiman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1691)
• 1646 – Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
• 1646 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1719)
• 1684 – Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
• 1688 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (d. 1758)
• 1707 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
• 1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)
• 1721 – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1765)
• 1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter and soldier (d. 1827)
• 1771 – Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator (d. 1844)
• 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844)
• 1783 – Maria Branwell, English mother of the Brontë family (d. 1821)
• 1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)
• 1800 – James Clark Ross, English captain and explorer (d. 1862)
• 1809 – Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)
• 1828 – Jean Danjou, French captain (d. 1863)
• 1832 – Wilhelm Busch, German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908)
• 1841 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (d. 1919)
• 1843 – Henry James, American-English author (d. 1916)
• 1851 – Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (d. 1930)
• 1856 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (d. 1910)
• 1858 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917)
• 1861 – Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)
• 1874 – George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)
• 1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1875 – James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)
• 1877 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (d. 1947)
• 1878 – Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956)
• 1879 – Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
• 1883 – Stanley Bruce, Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 1885 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)
• 1888 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (d. 1904)
• 1889 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (d. 1975)
• 1889 – A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Percy Shaw, English businessman, invented the cat's eye (d. 1976)
• 1892 – Theo Osterkamp, German general and pilot (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American clocksmith and author (d. 1983)
• 1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
• 1894 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (d. 1937)
• 1895 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)
• 1896 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Harry Edward, Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
• 1901 – Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)
• 1901 – René Pleven, French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
• 1903 – John Williams, English-American actor (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Antero Kivi, Finnish discus thrower (d. 1981)
• 1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter (d. 1986)
• 1910 – Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997)
• 1912 – William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Elizabeth Catlett, American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2012)
• 1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
• 1916 – Albert Dumouchel, Canadian painter and photographer (d. 1971)
• 1916 – Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1917 – James Kee, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
• 1918 – Hans Billian, German film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Alberto Breccia, Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Godfrey Stafford, English-South African physicist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Angelo DiGeorge, American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Joyce Jacobs, English-Australian actress (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Hasrat Jaipuri, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Graham Whitehead, English racing driver (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (d. 1966)
• 1923 – Robert DePugh, American activist, founded the Minutemen Organization (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1923 – Douglas Wass, English civil servant
• 1924 – M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1980)
• 1924 – Neville Marriner, English violinist and conductor
• 1925 – George Shuffler, American guitarist (The Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys) (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Georges Descrières, French actor (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland
• 1931 – Kenneth Bloomfield, Northern Irish civil servant
• 1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish psychologist, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
• 1932 – Suresh Bhat, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Roy Clark, American musician and television personality
• 1933 – David Hamilton, English-French photographer and director
• 1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1933 – Jim Towers, English footballer (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Soichiro Tahara, Japanese journalist
• 1935 – Stavros Paravas, Greek actor and producer (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
• 1937 – Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
• 1937 – Uldis Pūcītis, Latvian actor and director (d. 2000)
• 1938 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
• 1938 – Hso Khan Pha, Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician
• 1939 – Marty Wilde, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1940 – Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician
• 1940 – Penelope Coelen, South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World
• 1940 – Willie Davis, American baseball player and actor (d. 2010)
• 1940 – Robert Lacroix, Canadian economist and academic
• 1940 – Yossef Romano, Libyan-Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
• 1940 – Robert Walker, Jr., American actor
• 1941 – Howard Berman, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 – Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop
• 1942 – Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1942 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Tim Lankester, English economist and academic
• 1943 – Pınar Kür, Turkish author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 – Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater, English politician
• 1943 – Mighty Sam McClain, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Hugh Thompson, Jr., American soldier and pilot (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996)
• 1944 – Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer, guitarist, and producer (Love Sculpture and Rockpile)
• 1945 – İstemihan Taviloğlu, Turkish composer and a music educator (d. 2006)
• 1946 – John Lloyd, Scottish journalist and author
• 1946 – Pete Rouse, American politician, White House Chief of Staff
• 1946 – Michael Tucci, American actor
• 1947 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter and producer
• 1947 – Martin Broughton, English businessman
• 1947 – Lois Chiles, American model and actress
• 1947 – David Omand, English civil servant and academic
• 1947 – Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security
• 1947 – Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer and keyboard player (Barclay James Harvest) (d. 2010)
• 1948 – Christopher Brown, English historian, curator, and academic
• 1948 – Michael Kamen, American composer and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1949 – Craig Zadan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Kadir İnanır, Turkish film actor and director
• 1950 – Josiane Balasko, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Amy Wright, American actress
• 1951 – Heloise, American journalist and author
• 1951 – John L. Phillips, American captain and astronaut
• 1951 – Stuart Prebble, English journalist and producer
• 1952 – Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
• 1952 – Kym Gyngell, Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1952 – Sam McMurray, American actor
• 1952 – Brian Muir, English sculptor and set designer
• 1952 – Avital Ronell, Czech-American philosopher and academic
• 1952 – Glenn Shadix, American actor and singer (d. 2010)
• 1955 – Mark Damazer, English broadcaster and academic
• 1955 – Jeff Golub, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
• 1956 – Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Evelyn Ashford, American runner and coach
• 1958 – Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Abu Hamza al-Masri, Egyptian-English criminal
• 1958 – John Bracewell, New Zealand cricketer
• 1958 – Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1958 – Sir Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet, Scottish politician
• 1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah, English actor, author, poet, and playwright
• 1959 – Fruit Chan, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress and screenwriter
• 1959 – Thomas F. Wilson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Pierre Aubry, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Susanne Bier, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1960 – Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
• 1960 – Tony Jones, English snooker player
• 1960 – Philippe of Belgium
• 1961 – Neil Carmichael, English academic and politician
• 1962 – Tom Kane, American voice actor
• 1963 – Alex Crawford, Nigerian-South African journalist
• 1963 – Manzoor Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
• 1963 – Bobby Pepper, American journalist
• 1963 – Manoj Prabhakar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1964 – Andre Joubert, South African rugby player
• 1965 – Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (4 Non Blondes)
• 1965 – Michele Redman, American golfer
• 1965 – Kevin Stevens, American ice hockey player
• 1966 – Samantha Fox, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1966 – Mott Green, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 1967 – Frankie Poullain, Scottish bass player and songwriter (The Darkness)
• 1967 – Dara Torres, American swimmer and journalist
• 1968 – Ben Clarke, English rugby player and coach
• 1968 – Brahim Lahlafi, Moroccan-French runner
• 1968 – Ed O'Brien, English guitarist and songwriter (Radiohead)
• 1969 – Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
• 1969 – Kaisa Roose, Estonian pianist and conductor
• 1969 – Jimmy Waite, Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 – Flex Alexander, American actor, dancer, and producer
• 1970 – Chris Huffins, American decathlete and coach
• 1971 – Jason Sehorn, American football player
• 1971 – Josia Thugwane, South African runner
• 1971 – Karl Turner, English lawyer and politician
• 1972 – Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
• 1972 – Lou Romano, American animator and voice actor
• 1974 – Kim Min-kyo, South Korean actor and director
• 1974 – Danny Pino, American actor and screenwriter
• 1974 – Mike Quinn, American football player
• 1974 – Douglas Spain, American actor, director, and producer
• 1974 – Tim Thomas, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1975 – Philip Labonte, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (All That Remains and Shadows Fall)
• 1975 – Sarah Teichmann, German-American biophysicist and immunologist
• 1976 – Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 – Darius Regelskis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Kęstutis Šeštokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1976 – Susan Ward, American actress and model
• 1976 – Steve Williams, English rower
• 1977 – Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor
• 1977 – Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Jamie Wall, English racing driver
• 1978 – Austin Aries, American wrestler
• 1978 – Milton Bradley, American baseball player
• 1978 – Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
• 1978 – Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1979 – Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
• 1980 – Patrick Carney, American drummer (The Black Keys, The Rentals, and Drummer)
• 1980 – James Foster, English cricketer
• 1980 – Raül López, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 – Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1980 – Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and author
• 1980 – Víctor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
• 1980 – Fränk Schleck, Luxembourger cyclist
• 1980 – Billy Yates, American football player
• 1981 – Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 – Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
• 1982 – Anthony Green, American singer-songwriter (Circa Survive, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Saosin, High and Driving, and Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer)
• 1982 – Ester Dean, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
• 1982 – Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
• 1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Blu, American rapper and producer (All City Chess Club)
• 1983 – Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
• 1983 – Matt Cardle, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Seven Summers and Darwyn)
• 1983 – Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Andreas Fransson, Swedish skier (d. 2014)
• 1983 – Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Bronson La'Cassie, Australian golfer
• 1983 – Martin Pedersen, Danish cyclist
• 1984 – Antonio Cromartie, American football player
• 1984 – Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
• 1984 – Ben Kasica, American guitarist and producer (Skillet)
• 1984 – Daniel Paille, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Chris Cates, American baseball player
• 1985 – John Danks, American baseball player
• 1985 – Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
• 1985 – Diana Zubiri, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Tom Heaton, English footballer
• 1986 – Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
• 1986 – Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Ghanaian footballer
• 1986 – Giorgio Rubino, Italian race walker
• 1987 – Iyaz, Virgin Islander singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Samira Wiley, American actress
• 1988 – Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 – Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Yann David, French rugby player
• 1988 – Eliza Doolittle, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Beate Schrott, Austrian hurdler
• 1990 – Emma Watson, English actress
• 1991 – Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater
• 1991 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor and singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
• 1992 – Amy Diamond, Swedish singer and actress
• 1992 – John Guidetti, Swedish footballer
• 1992 – Richard Sandrak, Ukrainian-American bodybuilder, martial artist, and actor
• 1993 – Madeleine Martin, American actress and singer
• 1994 – Shaunae Miller, Bahamian sprinter
• 1994 – Bea Nicolas, Filipino actress
• 1996 – İpek Soylu, Turkish tennis player
• 1997 – Maisie Williams, English actress

Deaths[edit]

• 628 – Empress Suiko of Japan (b. 554)
• 1053 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
• 1220 – Adolf of Altena, German archbishop (b. 1157)
• 1415 – Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355)
• 1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377)
• 1558 – Roxelana, Ottoman wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. ca. 1502)
• 1610 – Robert Persons, English-Italian priest and author (b. 1546)
• 1632 – George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1580)
• 1652 – Patriarch Joseph of Moscow, Russian patriarch
• 1659 – Simon Dach, German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605)
• 1704 – Johannes Hudde, Dutch mathematician and politician (b. 1628)
• 1719 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• 1754 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)
• 1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682)
• 1761 – William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696)
• 1764 – Madame de Pompadour, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
• 1764 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)
• 1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)
• 1788 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
• 1793 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)
• 1854 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
• 1861 – Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
• 1865 – Abraham Lincoln, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
• 1889 – Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
• 1898 – Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
• 1912 – Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster
  • Thomas Andrews, Irish businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873)
  • John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864)
  • Archibald Butt, American general and journalist (b. 1865)
  • Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and author (b. 1875)
  • Benjamin Guggenheim American businessman (b. 1865)
  • Henry B. Harris, American producer and manager (b. 1866)
  • Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878)
  • James Paul Moody, English sailor and sixth officer (b. 1887)
  • William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor and first officer (b. 1873)
  • Jack Phillips, English telegraphist (b. 1887)
  • Edward Smith, English captain (b. 1850)
  • William Thomas Stead English journalist (b. 1849)
  • Ida Straus, German-American businesswoman (b. 1849)
  • Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845)
  • John Thayer, American cricketer (b. 1862)
  • Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer (b. 1872)
• 1917 – János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1927 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1931 – Joe Masseria, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1886)
• 1938 – César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 – Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 – Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 – Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)
• 1945 – Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 – Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1963 – Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1967 – Totò, Italian actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1969 – Maria Caserini, Italian actress (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1971 – Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Dan Reeves, American businessman (b. 1912)
• 1971 – Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1974 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Blake Butler, English actor (b. 1924)
• 1982 – Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Khalid Islambouli, Egyptian army officer and assassin of Egypt's president Anwar Sadat (b. 1955)
• 1983 – John Engstead, American photographer and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1983 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American clocksmith and author (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1984 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author and poet (b. 1925)
• 1986 – Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 – Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician (b. 1915)
• 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 – William Bakewell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Leslie Charteris, Singaporean-English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
• 1994 – John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1903)
• 1998 – William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (b. 1944)
• 2000 – Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Turkish actor and producer (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (Ramones and Sniper) (b. 1951)
• 2002 – Damon Knight, American author and critic (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Byron White, American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Reg Bundy, English actor and dancer (b. 1941)
• 2004 – Ray Condo, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Margaretta Scott, English actress (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Sean Costello, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Ed Blake, American baseball player and plumber (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)
• 2009 – László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 2009 – Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Michael Pataki, American actor and director (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Paul Bogart, American director and producer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Bob Perani, Italian-American ice hockey player (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Murray Rose, English-Australian swimmer and actor (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Rich Saul, American football player (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968)
• 2012 – Bob Wright, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Tadashi Yamamoto, Japanese businessman (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Sal Castro, American educator and activist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Benny Frankie Cerezo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Richard Collins, Canadian actor (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Joe Francis, American football player and coach (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hello Sailor) (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Scott Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Game Theory and The Loud Family) (b. 1960)
• 2014 – Júnior, Filipino-Spanish singer and actor (b. 1943)
• 2014 – Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Shane Gibson, American guitarist (stOrk and Jonathan Davis and the SFA) (b. 1979)
• 2014 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Owen Woodhouse, New Zealand commander and jurist (b. 1916)
• 2015 – Sidney Abbott, American author and activist (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966)
• 2015 – Barbara Strauch, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
• 2015 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)

Lawyers seek to end 'We Shall Overcome' copyright

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A song that became an anthem of the US civil rights movement should be free for all to perform, say lawyers seeking to end its copyright protection.

They claim the holders of the copyright are not entitled to charge for the use of We Shall Overcome, which was sung by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr's campaign against institutional racism.

The song has a long history and can be traced back to a 19th Century hymn.

It was later used by the labour movement in the early 20th Century.

We Shall Overcome was taken up as a rally cry and was sung at the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King.

The song was popularised in the 1960s by folk musician Pete Seeger and others, which led it to be copyrighted as a "derivative work".

Seeger's arrangement has since been performed by many artists, including Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters.

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The current dispute arose when a California-based group called the We Shall Overcome Foundation sought permission to include the song in a documentary.

New York-based publishers the Richmond Organisation and Ludlow Music Inc refused the request and threatened it with a financial penalty if it violated the copyright.

Lawyers from Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman have now taken up the case, claiming that licensing fees for We Shall Overcome have been "unlawfully demanded and extracted".

The same law firm previously argued for Happy Birthday to enter the public domain, a case that led to a judge's ruling that its lyrics could be used without the payment of royalties.

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• 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
• 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
• 1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
• 1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
• 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
• 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
• 1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
• 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
• 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
• 1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
• 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
• 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
• 1863 – American Civil War: During the Siege of Vicksburg, gunboats commanded by Acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
• 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• 1894 – Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C..
• 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
• 1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
• 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
• 1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
• 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
• 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
• 1940 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
• 1941 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
• 1941 – World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian ultranationalist organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
• 1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
• 1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
• 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
• 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
• 1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
• 1947 – Texas City disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
• 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
• 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
• 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
• 1992 – The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
• 1995 – George W. Bush names April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killed two weeks earlier.
• 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
• 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
• 2007 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
• 2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
• 2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
• 2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
• 2014 – The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.

Births[edit]

• 1319 – John II of France (d. 1364)
• 1488 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544)
• 1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557)
• 1516 – Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (d. 1550)
• 1635 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
• 1646 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect, designed the Château de Dampierre and Grand Trianon (d. 1708)
• 1660 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (d. 1753)
• 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (d. 1715)
• 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744)
• 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish wife of Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1743)
• 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German organist and composer (d. 1778)
• 1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
• 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795)
• 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
• 1786 – John Franklin, English admiral and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (d. 1847)
• 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English field marshal and politician (d. 1888)
• 1808 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1864)
• 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, French-English soldier and painter (d. 1893)
• 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
• 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (d. 1879)
• 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Italian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
• 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (d. 1862)
• 1844 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (d. 1919)
• 1851 – Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (d. 1930)
• 1865 – Harry Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
• 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1918)
• 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912)
• 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1909)
• 1874 – Jōtarō Watanabe, Japanese general (d. 1936)
• 1878 – R. E. Foster, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1914)
• 1882 – Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1884 – Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, journalist, and politician (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (d. 1960)
• 1886 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American football player and javelin thrower (d. 1957)
• 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
• 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
• 1888 – Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (d. 1940)
• 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
• 1890 – Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Dorothy P. Lathrop, American author and illustrator (d. 1980)
• 1892 – Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (d. 1980)
• 1893 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1968)
• 1893 – John Norton, American hurdler (d. 1979)
• 1894 – Ernst Ziegler, German actor (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988)
• 1896 – Robert Henry Best, American journalist (d. 1952)
• 1896 – Pat Clayton, English soldier and surveyor (d. 1962)
• 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)
• 1903 – Paul Waner, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
• 1904 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American vaudevillian and actress (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
• 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (d. 1947)
• 1908 – Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Ray Ventura, French-Spanish pianist and bandleader (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (d. 1963)
• 1912 – Gordon Dunn, American discus thrower (d. 1964)
• 1912 – David Langton, Scottish-English actor (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, English-Irish actor and playwright (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Robert Speck, Canadian politician, 1st Mayor of Mississauga (d. 1972)
• 1916 – Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet, and translator (d. 1979)
• 1917 – Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Dick Gibson, English race car driver (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese-American monk and author (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, singer, screenwriter, and author (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Thomas Willmore, English geometer and academic (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Ananda Dassanayake, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Arlin M. Adams, American lawyer and judge (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1995)
• 1922 – John Christopher, English author (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Lawrence N. Guarino, American colonel (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Warren Barker, American composer (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Arch A. Moore, Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015)
• 1924 – John Harvey-Jones, English academic and businessman (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
• 1924 – Madanjeet Singh, Indian diplomat, author, and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI
• 1927 – Dick Lane, American football player and soldier (d. 2002)
• 1927 – Rolf Schult, German actor (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (d. 1979)
• 1929 – Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Doug Beasy, Australian footballer and educator (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Russian weightlifter (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Herbie Mann, American flute player and composer (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Maury Meyers, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author
• 1933 – Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper
• 1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (d. 2012)
• 1934 – Robert Stigwood, Australian producer and manager (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Marcel Carrière, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Lennart Risberg, Swedish boxer (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Bobby Vinton, American singer
• 1936 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter, producer, and playwright
• 1937 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Gert Potgieter, South African hurdler and coach
• 1938 – Rich Rollins, American baseball player
• 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1939 – John Amabile, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1939 – John Delafose, American accordion player (d. 1994)
• 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer and record producer (The Lana Sisters and The Springfields) (d. 1999)
• 1940 – Benoît Bouchard, Canadian academic and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1940 – David Holford, Barbadian cricketer
• 1940 – Margaret Maden, English academic
• 1940 – Margrethe II of Denmark
• 1940 – Joan Snyder, American painter
• 1940 – Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, English banker and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom
• 1941 – Allan Segal, American director and producer (d. 2012)
• 1942 – Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
• 1942 – Frank Williams, English businessman, founded the Williams F1 Racing Team
• 1943 – Ruth Madoc, Welsh actress and singer
• 1943 – Dave Peverett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foghat and Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
• 1943 – Morris Stevenson, Scottish footballer (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Petro Tyschtschenko, Austrian-German businessman
• 1943 – John Watkins, Australian cricketer
• 1944 – Sue Clifford, English environmentalist and academic, co-founded Common Ground
• 1945 – Tom Allen, American lawyer and politician
• 1945 – Sebastian Barker, English poet and journalist (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Ernst Bakker, Dutch politician (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Justice of Liberia (d. 2015)
• 1946 – R. Carlos Nakai, American flute player
• 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
• 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) (d. 2011)
• 1948 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician, 17th Canadian President of the Treasury Board (d. 2011)
• 1948 – Lynne Franks, English businesswoman
• 1948 – Kazuyuki Sogabe, Japanese voice actor and guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Robert Dutil, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1950 – David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1950 – Colleen Hewett, Australian singer and actress
• 1951 – Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian author and photographer
• 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer-songwriter
• 1951 – David Nutt, English psychiatrist and academic
• 1952 – Bill Belichick, American football player and coach
• 1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor and director
• 1952 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli sprinter and hurdler
• 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician and songwriter
• 1952 – Nick Young, English lawyer and activist
• 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer-songwriter and politician (Midnight Oil)
• 1953 – Jay O. Sanders, American actor
• 1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress
• 1954 – John Bowe, Australian race car driver
• 1954 – Mike Zuke, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
• 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• 1956 – David M. Brown, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
• 1956 – T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (Dixie Dregs, Jazz Is Dead, and Widespread Panic) (d. 2010)
• 1956 – Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
• 1957 – Patricia De Martelaere, Belgian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 2009)
• 1958 – Tim Flach, English photographer and director
• 1958 – Ulf Wakenius, Swedish guitarist (Oscar Peterson Tro)
• 1959 – Robert Casilla, American illustrator
• 1959 – Scott McKinsey, American director and producer
• 1959 – Alison Ramsay, English-Scottish field hockey player and lawyer
• 1960 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
• 1960 – Rafael Benítez, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (d. 2014)
• 1961 – Linda Ruth Williams, British film studies academic
• 1962 – Anna Dello Russo, Italian journalist
• 1962 – Douglas Elmendorf, American economist and politician
• 1962 – Ian MacKaye, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fugazi, Minor Threat, The Teen Idles, The Evens, and Embrace)
• 1963 – Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
• 1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer and actor (The Osmonds)
• 1964 – David Kohan, American screenwriter and producer
• 1964 – Dave Pirner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Soul Asylum)
• 1964 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish pianist (Esbjörn Svensson Trio) (d. 2008)
• 1965 – Yves-François Blanchet, Canadian politician
• 1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Jarle Vespestad, Norwegian drummer (Farmers Market)
• 1968 – Vickie Guerrero, American wrestler and manager
• 1968 – Rüdiger Stenzel, German runner
• 1969 – Stacy Francis, American singer and actress (Ex Girlfriend)
• 1969 – Patrik Järbyn, Swedish skier
• 1969 – Fernando Viña, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Dero Goi, German singer-songwriter and drummer (Oomph!)
• 1970 – Walt Williams, American basketball player
• 1971 – Selena, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (Selena y Los Dinos) (d. 1995)
• 1971 – Peter Billingsley, American actor, director, and producer
• 1971 – Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
• 1971 – Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
• 1971 – Natasha Zvereva, Belarusian tennis player
• 1972 – Conchita Martínez, Spanish-American tennis player
• 1972 – John McGuinness, English motorcycle racer
• 1972 – Tracy K. Smith, American poet and educator
• 1973 – Akon, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1973 – Gary Delaney, English comedian
• 1973 – Hirofumi Nojima, Japanese voice actor
• 1973 – Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Charlotta Sorenstam, Swedish golfer
• 1973 – Oksana Yermakova, Estonian-Russian fencer
• 1974 – Mat Devine, American singer-songwriter and actor (Kill Hannah)
• 1974 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
• 1974 – Fabián Robles, Mexican actor
• 1975 – Keon Clark, American basketball player
• 1975 – Sean Maher, American actor
• 1976 – Phil Baroni, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1976 – Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hellacopters, Dundertåget, and Thunder Express)
• 1976 – Lukas Haas, American actor, pianist, drummer, and composer
• 1976 – Dan Kellner, American fencer
• 1976 – David Lyons, Australian actor
• 1976 – Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
• 1976 – Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1977 – Tameka Empson, English actress and screenwriter
• 1977 – Florentijn Hofman, Dutch sculptor
• 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
• 1978 – Lara Dutta, Indian model and actress, Miss Universe 2000
• 1978 – Jody Marie Gnant, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1978 – Matthew Lloyd, Australian footballer and coach
• 1978 – Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer and manager
• 1978 – Ivan Urgant, Russian television host and actor
• 1978 – Christos Vasilopoulos, Greek actor
• 1979 – Christijan Albers, Dutch race car driver
• 1979 – Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter
• 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 – Sean Costello, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1979 – Sixto Peralta, Argentinian-English footballer
• 1980 – Jens Hartwig, German actor
• 1980 – Paul London, American wrestler
• 1981 – Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Maya Dunietz, Israeli singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1982 – Boris Diaw, French basketball player
• 1982 – Michael Ratajczak, German footballer
• 1982 – Jonathan Vilma, American football player
• 1983 – Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1983 – Manuela Martelli, Chilean actress
• 1983 – Cat Osterman, American softball player
• 1983 – George Patis, Greek badminton player
• 1984 – Natalie Blair, Australian actress
• 1984 – Teddy Blass, American composer and producer
• 1984 – Claire Foy, English actress
• 1984 – Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
• 1984 – Paweł Kieszek, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Kerron Stewart, Jamaican sprinter
• 1985 – Luol Deng, Sudanese-English basketball player
• 1985 – Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
• 1985 – Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 – Benjamín Rojas, Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (Erreway)
• 1985 – Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 – Paul di Resta, Scottish race car driver
• 1986 – Laura Langman, New Zealand netball player
• 1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player
• 1986 – Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast
• 1987 – Savant, Norwegian DJ and producer
• 1987 – Cenk Akyol, Turkish basketball player
• 1987 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
• 1990 – Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
• 1990 – Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
• 1990 – Tony McQuay, American sprinter
• 1991 – Nolan Arenado, American baseball player
• 1991 – Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
• 1991 – Yurie Midori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
• 1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
• 1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater

Deaths[edit]

• 69 – Otho, Roman emperor (b. 32)
• 665 – Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint
• 1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
• 1118 – Adelaide del Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily (b. 1075)
• 1198 – Frederick I, Duke of Austria (b. 1175)
• 1640 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
• 1645 – Tobias Hume, Scottish soldier, viol player, and composer (b. 1569)
• 1687 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English poet and politician, Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire (b. 1628)
• 1689 – Aphra Behn, English author and playwright (b. 1640)
• 1742 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet and translator (b. 1672)
• 1756 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
• 1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (b. 1719)
• 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
• 1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746)
• 1846 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (b. 1763)
• 1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)
• 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845)
• 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)
• 1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (b. 1888)
• 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish-English author (b. 1812)
• 1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
• 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (b. 1841)
• 1924 – Amleto Novelli, Italian actor (b. 1885)
• 1925 – Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (b. 1867)
• 1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1928 – Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (b. 1900)
• 1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (b. 1894)
• 1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1937 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870)
• 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (b. 1874)
• 1941 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (b. 1880)
• 1942 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
• 1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)
• 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1905)
• 1950 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (b. 1867)
• 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish engineer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mobster (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1959 – Charles Halton, American actor (b. 1876)
• 1960 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1965 – Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour, English Lieutenant-Colonel in the british Army and colonial administrator (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Eric Lambert, Australian author (b. 1918)
• 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
• 1972 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
• 1973 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
• 1978 – Lucius D. Clay, American general (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1988 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (b. 1935)
• 1988 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954)
• 1989 – Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
• 1989 – Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1991 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian spy and activist (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and critic (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek-Swiss businessman (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Roland Topor, French actor, director, and painter (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880)
• 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Putra of Perlis (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American businesswoman, founded Ruth's Chris Steak House (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticulturalist and author (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Kay Walsh, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor (b. 1983)
• 2007 – Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shooting (b. 1984) and 32 victims
• 2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Chandrabose Suthaharan, Sri Lankan journalist
• 2008 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Rasim Delić, Bosnian general (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian scholar and politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Sol Saks, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Sári Barabás, Hungarian soprano (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Marian Biskup, Polish author and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Ray Davey, Northern Irish minister, founded the Corrymeela Community (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and conductor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – George Kunda, Zambian lawyer and politician, 11th Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Carlo Petrini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Charles Bruzon, Gibraltarian politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Jack Daniels, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2013 – George Horse Capture, American anthropologist and author (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Ali Kafi, Algerian colonel and politician (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Francis Leo Lawrence, American academic and scholar (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1944)
• 2013 – George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
• 2013 – Edwin Shirley, English businessman (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, English author and songwriter (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Frank Kopel, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Basil A. Paterson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Attaphol Buspakom, Thai footballer and manager (b. 1962)
• 2015 – Oles Buzina, Ukrainian journalist and author (b. 1969)
• 2015 – Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
• 2015 – Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Nimal Mendis, Sri Lankan singer-songwriter (b. 1934)