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July 17 is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year.
180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.1402 – Zhu Di, better known by his era name as the Yongle Emperor , assumes the throne over the Ming dynasty of China.1429 – Hundred Years' War : Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign by Joan of Arc 1453 – Battle of Castillon : The last battle of Hundred Years' War , the French under Jean Bureau defeat the English under the Earl of Shrewsbury , who is killed in the battle in Gascony .1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel 's Water Music 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia .1771 – Bloody Falls massacre : Chipewyan chief Matonabbee , traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit .1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars , Paris, during the French Revolution , killing as many as 50 people.1794 – The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne are executed ten days prior to the end of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror .1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania , kills over 60 people.1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts . It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.1896 – Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi , the Indian sage, at age 16, spontaneously initiates a process of self-enquiry that culminates within a few minutes in his own permanent awakening .1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York .1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor .1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg , Russia .1918 – The RMS Carpathia , the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic , is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55 ; five lives are lost.
1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday : A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA , and the German Communist Party ensues.1933 – After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.1936 – Spanish Civil War : An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.1944 – Port Chicago disaster : Near the San Francisco Bay , two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California , killing 320.1944 – World War II : Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô , France.
1945 – World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill , Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin , meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.1948 – The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.1953 – The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida killing 44.1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California .1962 – Nuclear weapons testing : The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site .1968 – A revolution occurs in Iraq when Abdul Rahman Arif is overthrown and the Ba'ath Party is installed as the governing power in Iraq with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as the new Iraqi President.1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project : An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.1976 – East Timor is annexed , and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia .1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the New Zealand team.
1979 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami , Florida .1981 – The opening of the Humber Bridge by Queen Elizabeth II in England.1981 – A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.1985 – Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).1989 – First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.1989 – Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
1996 – TWA Flight 800 : Off the coast of Long Island, New York , a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.1996 – The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is founded.
1998 – Papua New Guinea earthquake : A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea killing an estimated 3,183, leaving 2,000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.1998 – A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide , crimes against humanity , war crimes , and the crime of aggression .
2001 – Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 , an Airbus A320 , crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.2009 – Two suicide bombers detonate themselves at two separate hotels in Jakarta , Indonesia.2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , a Boeing 777 , crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.2014 – A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near the town of Denguin , resulting in at least 25 injuries.
2015 – At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province , Iraq.
1487 – Ismail I of Iran (d. 1524)1674 – Isaac Watts , English hymnwriter and theologian (d. 1748)1695 – Christian Karl Reinhard of Leiningen-Dachsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim (d. 1766)1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis , French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)1708 – Frederick Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (d. 1769)1714 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher and academic (d. 1762)1744 – Elbridge Gerry , American merchant and politician, 5th Vice President of the United States (d. 1814)1763 – John Jacob Astor , German-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1848)1774 – John Wilbur , American minister and theologian (d. 1856)1797 – Paul Delaroche , French painter and academic (d. 1856)1823 – Leander Clark , American businessman, judge, and politician (d. 1910)1831 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (d. 1861)1837 – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 7th Secretary of State for Canada (d. 1886)1839 – Ephraim Shay , American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916)1853 – Alexius Meinong , Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and academic (d. 1920)1868 – Henri Nathansen , Danish director and playwright (d. 1944)1870 – Charles Davidson Dunbar , Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (d. 1939)1871 – Lyonel Feininger , German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1956)1879 – Jack Laviolette , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 1960)1882 – James Somerville , English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (d. 1949)1888 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Ukrainian-Israeli author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)1889 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American lawyer and author (d. 1970)1894 – Georges Lemaître , Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966)1898 – Berenice Abbott , American photographer (d. 1991)1898 – Osmond Borradaile , Canadian soldier and cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 – James Cagney , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1986)1900 – Marcel Dalio , French actor (d. 1983)1901 – Luigi Chinetti , Italian-American race car driver (d. 1994)1901 – Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet and author (d. 1938)
1901 – Patrick Smith , Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (d. 1982)
1902 – Christina Stead , Australian author and academic (d. 1983)1910 – James Coyne , Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (d. 2012)1910 – Barbara O'Neil , American actress (d. 1980)
1910 – Frank Olson , American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953)
1911 – Lionel Ferbos , American trumpet player (d. 2014)1911 – Heinz Lehmann , German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (d. 1999)
1912 – Erwin Bauer , German race car driver (d. 1958)1912 – Art Linkletter , Canadian-American radio and television host (d. 2010)
1913 – Bertrand Goldberg , American architect, designed the Marina City Building (d. 1997)1914 – Eleanor Steber , American soprano and educator (d. 1990)1915 – Fred Ball , American actor and manager (d. 2007)1915 – Arthur Rothstein , American photographer and educator (b. 1985)
1917 – Bijon Bhattacharya , Indian actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)1917 – Lou Boudreau , American baseball player and manager (d. 2001)
1917 – Phyllis Diller , American actress, singer, dancer, and voice artist (d. 2012)
1917 – Kenan Evren , Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (d. 2015)
1917 – Christiane Rochefort , French author (d. 1998)
1918 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio , Guatemalan soldier and politician, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)1918 – Red Sovine , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
1920 – Gordon Gould , American physicist and academic, invented the laser (d. 2005)1920 – Juan Antonio Samaranch , Spanish businessman, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 2010)
1921 – George Barnes , American guitarist, producer, and songwriter (The Three Suns ) (d. 1977)1921 – Louis Lachenal , French mountaineer (d. 1955)
1921 – Mary Osborne , American guitarist (d. 1992)
1921 – Toni Stone , American baseball player (d. 1996)
1921 – František Zvarík , Slovakian actor (d. 2008)
1923 – John Cooper , English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)1924 – Garde Gardom , Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (d. 2013)1925 – Jimmy Scott , American singer and actor (d. 2014)1926 – Édouard Carpentier , French-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)1928 – Vince Guaraldi , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1976)1928 – Joe Morello , American drummer (d. 2011)
1929 – Sergei K. Godunov , Russian mathematician and academic1932 – Quino , Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist1932 – Niccolò Castiglioni , Italian composer (d. 1996)
1932 – Johnny Kerr , American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
1932 – Wojciech Kilar , Polish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1932 – Karla Kuskin , American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
1932 – Hal Riney , American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008)
1933 – Keiko Awaji , Japanese actress (d. 2014)1933 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici , Maltese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
1933 – Tony Pithey , Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2006)
1935 – Diahann Carroll , American actress and singer1935 – Peter Schickele , American composer and educator
1935 – Donald Sutherland , Canadian-American actor and producer
1938 – Hermann Huppen , Belgian author and illustrator1939 – Andrée Champagne , Canadian actress and politician1939 – Spencer Davis , Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Spencer Davis Group )
1939 – Ali Khamenei , Iranian cleric and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
1940 – Tim Brooke-Taylor , English actor and screenwriter1941 – Daryle Lamonica , American football player1941 – Bob Taylor , English cricketer
1941 – Achim Warmbold , German race car driver and manager
1942 – Gale Garnett , New Zealand-Canadian singer and actress1942 – Don Kessinger , American baseball player and manager
1942 – Connie Hawkins , American basketball player
1942 – Zoot Money , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band , Dantalian's Chariot , and The Hard Travelers )
1943 – Conor Myles John O'Brien, 18th Baron Inchiquin 1943 – LaVyrle Spencer , American author and educator
1944 – Mark Burgess , New Zealand cricketer and footballer1944 – Catherine Schell , Hungarian-English actress
1944 – Carlos Alberto Torres , Brazilian footballer and manager
1945 – Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia 1945 – John Patten, Baron Patten , English politician, Secretary of State for Education
1946 – Alun Armstrong , English actor and singer1947 – Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St John's , English educator and politician1947 – Robert Begerau , German footballer and manager
1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
1947 – Wolfgang Flür , German drummer (Kraftwerk and Dyko )
1948 – Ron Asheton , American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (The Stooges , Destroy All Monsters , The New Order , and New Race ) (d. 2009)1948 – Luc Bondy , Swiss director and producer
1949 – Geezer Butler , English bass player and songwriter (Black Sabbath , Geezer Butler Band , GZR , and Heaven & Hell )1949 – Wayne Sleep , English actor, dancer, and choreographer
1949 – Charley Steiner , American journalist and sportscaster
1950 – Derek de Lint , Dutch actor1950 – Damon Harris , American singer (The Temptations ) (d. 2013)
1950 – Phoebe Snow , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory ) (d. 2011)
1950 – P. J. Soles , German-American actress
1951 – Lucie Arnaz , American actress, singer, and dancer1951 – Mark Bowden , American journalist and author
1951 – Andrew Robathan , English soldier and politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
1952 – David Hasselhoff , American actor, singer, and producer1952 – Nicolette Larson , American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1952 – Thé Lau , Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1952 – Robert R. McCammon , American author
1954 – Angela Merkel , German chemist and politician, 8th Chancellor of Germany 1954 – Edward Natapei , Vanuatuan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (d. 2015)
1954 – J. Michael Straczynski , American author, screenwriter, and producer
1955 – Sylvie Léonard , Canadian actress and screenwriter1955 – Paul Stamets , American mycologist and author
1956 – Julie Bishop , Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1956 – Robert Romanus , American actor and singer
1956 – Bryan Trottier , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1957 – Fern Britton , English television host and actress1957 – Bruce Crump , American drummer and songwriter (Molly Hatchet and Gator Country ) (d. 2015)
1957 – Wendy Freedman , Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer
1958 – Wong Kar-wai , Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter1958 – Thérèse Rein , Australian businesswoman, founded Ingeus
1959 – Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin , Bangladeshi-English politician1960 – Kim Barnett , English cricketer and coach1960 – Mark Burnett , English-American screenwriter and producer
1960 – Nancy Giles , American journalist and actress
1960 – Robin Shou , Hong Kong actor and martial artist
1960 – Dawn Upshaw , American soprano
1960 – Jan Wouters , Dutch footballer and manager
1961 – Guru , American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr ) (d. 2010)1961 – Jeremy Hardy , English comedian and actor
1963 – Regina Belle , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress1963 – Letsie III of Lesotho
1963 – Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper and singer
1963 – John Ventimiglia , American actor, screenwriter, and composer
1964 – Heather Langenkamp , American actress, producer and director1965 – Billy Mitchell , American gamer1965 – Craig Morgan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Santiago Segura , Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965 – Alex Winter , English-born American actor, film director and screenwriter
1966 – Lou Barlow , American guitarist and songwriter (Deep Wound , Dinosaur Jr. , Sebadoh , and The Folk Implosion )1966 – Sten Tolgfors , Swedish lawyer and politician, 30th Swedish Minister of Defence
1968 – Beth Littleford , American comedian and actress1968 – Andre Royo , American actor and producer
1968 – Bitty Schram , American actress
1969 – F. Gary Gray , American actor and director1969 – Scott Johnson , American cartoonist
1969 – Jaan Kirsipuu , Estonian cyclist
1969 – Kazuki Kitamura , Japanese actor
1971 – Calbert Cheaney , American basketball player and coach1971 – Cory Doctorow , Canadian author and activist
1971 – Nico Mattan , Belgian cyclist
1972 – Elizabeth Cook , American singer and guitarist1972 – Donny Marshall , American basketball player and sportscaster
1972 – Jason Rullo , American drummer (Symphony X and Redemption )
1972 – Jaap Stam , Dutch footballer and manager
1972 – Eric Williams , American basketball player
1973 – Tony Dovolani , Albanian-American dancer and actor1973 – Eric Moulds , American football player
1973 – Liam Kyle Sullivan , American comedian and actor
1974 – Andrew Downton , Australian cricketer1975 – Darude , Finnish DJ and producer1975 – Harlette , Australian-English fashion designer
1975 – Andre Adams , New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Elena Anaya , Spanish actress
1975 – Cécile de France , Belgian actress
1975 – Carey Hart , American motorcycle racer
1975 – Paul Hinojos , American guitarist and songwriter (At the Drive-In , The Mars Volta , and Sparta )
1975 – Konnie Huq , English television host and actress
1975 – Terence Tao , Australian-American mathematician and academic
1976 – Luke Bryan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1976 – Gino D'Acampo , Italian chef and author
1976 – Dagmara Domińczyk , Polish-American actress
1976 – Anders Svensson , Swedish footballer and sportscaster
1976 – Matt Holmes , Australian actor
1976 – Eric Winter , American model and actor
1977 – Leif Hoste , Belgian cyclist1977 – Lehmber Hussainpuri , Indian singer
1977 – Marc Savard , Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Ricardo Arona , Brazilian mixed martial artist1978 – Panda Bear , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Animal Collective and Jane )
1978 – Mike Knox , American wrestler
1978 – Trevor McNevan , Canadian singer-songwriter (Thousand Foot Krutch and FM Static )
1979 – Mike Vogel , American actor1980 – Javier Camuñas , Spanish footballer1980 – Ryan Miller , American ice hockey player
1981 – Hely Ollarves , Venezuelan runner1981 – Elpida Romantzi , Greek archer
1981 – Raigo Toompuu , Estonian shot putter
1982 – Omari Banks , Anguillan cricketer1982 – Natasha Hamilton , English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Atomic Kitten )
1982 – René Herms , German runner (d. 2009)
1983 – Jessi Cruickshank , Canadian television host1983 – Ryan Guettler , Australian motocross racer
1983 – Sarah Jones , American actress
1983 – Adam Lind , American baseball player
1984 – David Katoatau , I-Kiribati weightlifter1984 – Asami Kimura , Japanese singer (Country Musume )
1984 – Samyr Laine , Haitian triple jumper
1984 – Sotiris Leontiou , Greek footballer
1985 – Loui Eriksson , Swedish ice hockey player1985 – Tom Fletcher , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (McFly and McBusted )
1985 – Neil McGregor , Scottish footballer
1986 – Dana , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (The Grace )1986 – Brando Eaton , American actor
1986 – DeAngelo Smith , American football player
1986 – Lacey Von Erich , American wrestler
1987 – Darius Boyd , Australian rugby league player1987 – Jeremih , American singer-songwriter and producer
1987 – Wankelmut , German DJ and producer
1987 – Darius Boyd , Australian rugby player
1987 – Jan Charouz , Czech race car driver
1988 – Summer Bishil , American actress1988 – Guo Yue , Chinese table tennis player
1990 – Jonty Usborne , Belgian-English engineer1991 – Mann , American rapper1992 – Taavi Rand , Estonian ice dancer1993 – Ai Okawa , Japanese model and actress1994 – Jessica Amlee , Canadian actress2000 – Maria Aragon , Canadian singer2000 – Nico Liersch , German actor
521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius , Latin bishop and poet (b. 474)924 – Edward the Elder , English king (b. 877)1070 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)1453 – John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , English commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1387)1531 – Hosokawa Takakuni , Japanese commander (b. 1484)1571 – Georg Fabricius , German poet and historian (b. 1516)1588 – Mimar Sinan , Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489)1645 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset , English-Scottish politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1587)1704 – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur , French-American fur trader and explorer (b. 1657)1709 – Robert Bolling , English-American planter and merchant (b. 1646)1762 – Peter III of Russia (b. 1728)1790 – Adam Smith , Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)1791 – Martin Dobrizhoffer , Austrian missionary and author (b. 1717)1793 – Charlotte Corday , French murderer (b. 1768)1794 – John Roebuck , English chemist and businessman (b. 1718)1845 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)1878 – Aleardo Aleardi , Italian poet and politician (b. 1812)1879 – Maurycy Gottlieb , Ukrainian-Polish painter (b. 1856)1881 – Jim Bridger , American scout and explorer (b. 1804)1883 – Tự Đức , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1892)1885 – Jean-Charles Chapais , Canadian farmer and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1811)1887 – Dorothea Dix , American nurse and activist (b. 1802)1893 – Frederick A. Johnson , American banker and politician (b. 1833)1894 – Leconte de Lisle , French poet and translator (b. 1818)1894 – Josef Hyrtl , Austrian anatomist and biologist (b. 1810)
1907 – Hector Malot , French author and critic (b. 1830)1912 – Henri Poincaré , French mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1854)1918 – People of the Shooting of the Romanov family
1928 – Giovanni Giolitti , Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)1928 – Álvaro Obregón , Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico (b. 1880)
1932 – Rasmus Rasmussen , Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)1935 – Nie Er , Chinese violinist and composer (b. 1912)1935 – George William Russell , Irish poet and painter (b. 1867)
1944 – William James Sidis , American mathematician and anthropologist (b. 1898)1945 – Ernst Busch , German field marshal (b. 1885)1946 – Draža Mihailović , Serbian general (b. 1893)1950 – Evangeline Booth , English 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)1950 – Antonie Nedošinská , Czech actress (b. 1885)
1959 – Billie Holiday , American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1915)1959 – Eugene Meyer , American businessman and publisher (b. 1875)
1961 – Ty Cobb , American baseball player and manager (b. 1886)1961 – Emin Halid Onat , Turkish architect and academic (b. 1908)
1967 – John Coltrane , American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet ) (b. 1926)1974 – Dizzy Dean , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)1975 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia , Georgian author (b. 1893)1980 – Don "Red" Barry , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)1980 – Boris Delaunay , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
1987 – Yujiro Ishihara , Japanese actor and singer (b. 1934)1987 – Kristjan Palusalu , Estonian wrestler, referee, and trainer (b. 1908)
1988 – Bruiser Brody , American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)1989 – Itubwa Amram , Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)1991 – John Patrick Spiegel , American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)1994 – Jean Borotra , French tennis player (b. 1898)1995 – Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)1996 – Victims of TWA Flight 800
1996 – Chas Chandler , American bass player and producer (The Animals ) (b. 1938)
1998 – Lillian Hoban , American author and illustrator (b. 1925)2000 – Zhao Lirong , Chinese actress (b. 1928)2001 – Katharine Graham , American publisher (b. 1917)2002 – Joseph Luns , Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)2003 – David Kelly , Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)2003 – Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)
2003 – Walter Zapp , Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)
2004 – Pat Roach , English wrestler and actor (b. 1937)2005 – Laurel Aitken , Cuban singer (b. 1927)2005 – Geraldine Fitzgerald , Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
2005 – Edward Heath , English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
2005 – Joe Vialls , Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)
2006 – Sam Myers , American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)2006 – Mickey Spillane , American soldier, pilot, and author (b. 1918)
2007 – Grant Forsberg , American actor and businessman (b. 1959)2007 – Júlio Redecker , Brazilian politician (b. 1956)
2007 – Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza , Brazilian lawyer and businessman (b. 1945)
2008 – Larry Haines , American actor (b. 1918)2009 – Walter Cronkite , American journalist and actor (b. 1916)2009 – Leszek Kołakowski , Polish historian and philosopher (b. 1927)
2010 – Larry Keith , American actor (b. 1931)2011 – David Ngoombujarra , Australian actor (b. 1967)2012 – Richard Evatt , English boxer (b. 1973)2012 – Forrest S. McCartney , American general (b. 1931)
2012 – Ms. Melodie , American rapper (b. 1964)
2012 – İlhan Mimaroğlu , Turkish-American composer and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Morgan Paull , American actor (b. 1944)
2012 – William Raspberry , American journalist and academic (b. 1935)
2012 – Marsha Singh , Indian-English politician (b. 1954)
2013 – Henri Alleg , English-French journalist and author (b. 1921)2013 – Peter Appleyard , English-Canadian vibraphone player and composer (b. 1928)
2013 – Vincenzo Cerami , Italian screenwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2013 – Don Flye , American tennis player (b. 1933)
2013 – Ian Gourlay , English general (b. 1920)
2013 – Briony McRoberts , English actress (b. 1957)
2013 – David White , Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2014 – Victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
2014 – Henry Hartsfield , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1933)
2014 – Otto Piene , German sculptor and academic (b. 1928)
2014 – J. Sasikumar , Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2014 – Elaine Stritch , American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2015 – Bill Arnsparger , American football player and coach (b. 1926)2015 – Jules Bianchi , French race car river (b. 1989)
2015 – Owen Chadwick , English rugby player, historian, and academic (b. 1916)
2015 – Van Miller , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2015 – John Taylor , English pianist and educator (Nucleus ) (b. 1942)
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