April 25 is the 115th day of the year (116th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 250 days remaining until the end of the year.
404 BC – Peloponnesian War : Lysander 's Spartan armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate . Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar Byzantine Empire .799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.1607 – Eighty Years' War : The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar .1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor , the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng .1707 – A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession .1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine .1792 – "La Marseillaise " (the French national anthem ) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle .
1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.1846 – Thornton Affair : Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas , triggering the Mexican–American War .1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.1849 – The Governor General of Canada , Lord Elgin , signs the Rebellion Losses Bill , outraging Montreal 's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots .1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal .1862 – American Civil War : Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana .1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills .1882 – Tonkin Campaign : French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin , when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.1898 – Spanish–American War : The United States declares war on Spain.1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates .1915 – World War I : The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles .1916 – Easter Rising : The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1920 – At the San Remo conference , the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman -ruled lands of the Middle East.1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins 1940 – Merkið , the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government .1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.1945 – Elbe Day : United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe , cutting the Wehrmacht Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe .1945 – Liberation Day (Italy) : The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement ; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization .
1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War . Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois .1951 – Korean War : Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong .1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid " describing the double helix structure of DNA .1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories .1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway , linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping .1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe .1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit .1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California .1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.1972 – Vietnam War : Nguyen Hue Offensive : The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum .1974 – Carnation Revolution : A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon , the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga , Japan.1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords .1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war .1983 – Pioneer 10 Pluto 's orbit .
1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland , succeeding his father Sobhuza II .1988 – In Israel , John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua , the first woman to hold the position.2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937 .2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union .
2005 – One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin 's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal .2015 – Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody .
1214 – Louis IX of France (d. 1270)1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)1284 – Edward II of England (d. 1327)1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1330)1502 – Georg Major , German theologian and academic (d. 1574)1599 – Oliver Cromwell , English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658)1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (d. 1660)1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , English soldier and politician (d. 1679)1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett , German organist and composer (d. 1727)1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , English architect and politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (d. 1753)1710 – James Ferguson , Scottish astronomer and author (d. 1776)1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini , Italian composer (d. 1797)1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel , English admiral and politician (d. 1786)1767 – Nicolas Oudinot , French general (d. 1847)1770 – Georg Sverdrup , Norwegian philologist and academic (d. 1850)1775 – Carlota Joaquina of Spain (d. 1830)1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)1818 – Gustavus Vaughan Brooke , Irish actor (d. 1866)1843 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)1849 – Felix Klein , German mathematician and academic (d. 1925)1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau , German composer and educator (d. 1927)1851 – Leopoldo Alas , Spanish author, critic, and academic (d. 1901)1862 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon , English ornithologist and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1933)1868 – John Moisant , American pilot and engineer (d. 1910)1871 – Lorne Currie , French-English sailor (d. 1926)1873 – Walter de la Mare , English poet and author (d. 1956)1874 – Guglielmo Marconi , Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)1874 – Ernest Webb , English-Canadian race walker (d. 1937)
1876 – Jacob Nicol , Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (d. 1958)1878 – William Merz , American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1946)1887 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou , Beninese lawyer and critic (d. 1936)1892 – Maud Hart Lovelace , American author (d. 1980)1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)1898 – Fred Haney , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1977)1900 – Gladwyn Jebb , English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996)1900 – Wolfgang Pauli , Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 – Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist and academic (d. 1964)1902 – Mary Miles Minter , American actress (d. 1984)
1903 – Andrey Kolmogorov , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1987)1905 – George Nepia , New Zealand rugby player and referee (d. 1986)1906 – William J. Brennan, Jr. , American colonel and jurist (d. 1997)1908 – Edward R. Murrow , American journalist (d. 1965)1909 – William Pereira , American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid (d. 1985)1910 – Arapeta Awatere , New Zealand interpreter, military leader, maori welfare officer, politician, and murderer (d. 1976)1911 – Connie Marrero , Cuban baseball player and coach (d. 2014)1912 – Earl Bostic , American saxophonist (d. 1965)1913 – Nikolaos Roussen , Greek captain (d. 1944)1913 – Kenneth Lee Spencer , American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr. , American author and academic (d. 1948)1915 – Mort Weisinger , American journalist and author (d. 1978)1917 – Ella Fitzgerald , American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)1918 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs , French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995)1918 – Astrid Varnay , Swedish-American soprano and actress (d. 2006)
1919 – Finn Helgesen , Norwegian speed skater (d. 2011)1920 – Jean Carmet , French actor (d. 1994)1920 – Robert Q. Lewis , American game show host and actor (d. 1991)
1921 – Karel Appel , Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)1923 – Francis Graham-Smith , English astronomer and academic1923 – Melissa Hayden , Canadian-American ballerina and actress (d. 2006)
1923 – Albert King , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
1924 – Ingemar Johansson , Swedish race walker (d. 2009)1924 – Franco Mannino , Italian pianist, composer, director, and playwright (d. 2005)
1924 – Paulo Vanzolini , Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (d. 2013)
1925 – Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher , English union leader and businessman1925 – Sammy Drechsel , German comedian and journalist (d. 1986)
1925 – Kay E. Kuter , American actor and singer (d. 2003)
1925 – Louis O'Neil , Canadian academic and politician
1926 – Johnny Craig , American author and illustrator (d. 2001)1926 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner , Austrian politician (d. 2008)
1927 – Corín Tellado , Spanish author (d. 2009)1927 – Albert Uderzo , French author and illustrator
1928 – Vassar Clements , American fiddler (Old and in the Way ) (d. 2005)1928 – Cy Twombly , American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2011)
1929 – Yvette Williams , New Zealand long jumper, shot putter, and discus thrower1930 – Paul Mazursky , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)1930 – Godfrey Milton-Thompson , English admiral and surgeon (d. 2012)
1930 – Peter Schulz , German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Hamburg (d. 2013)
1931 – Felix Berezin , Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1980)1931 – James Fenton , Irish linguist and poet
1931 – David Shepherd , English painter and author
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon , American basketball player and actor1932 – Lia Manoliu , Romanian discus thrower and politician (d. 1998)
1932 – William Roache , English actor
1933 – Jerry Leiber , American songwriter and producer (d. 2011)1933 – Joyce Ricketts , American baseball player (d. 1992)
1934 – Peter McParland , Irish footballer and manager1934 – Denny Miller , American actor (d. 2014)
1935 – Bob Gutowski , American pole vaulter (d. 1960)1935 – Reinier Kreijermaat , Dutch footballer
1936 – Henck Arron , Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Ministers of the Republic of Suriname (d. 2000)1938 – Roger Boisjoly , American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 2012)1938 – Ton Schulten , Dutch painter and graphic designer
1939 – Tarcisio Burgnich , Italian footballer and manager1939 – Ted Kooser , American poet and author
1939 – Richard Lapthorne , English businessman
1939 – Michael Llewellyn-Smith , English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Greece
1939 – Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky , Chinese-English historian and academic
1939 – Veronica Sutherland , English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Ireland
1940 – Al Pacino , American actor and director1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan1941 – Bertrand Tavernier , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1942 – Mr. Hito , Japanese wrestler (d. 2010)1942 – Jon Kyl , American lawyer and politician
1943 – Tony Christie , English singer-songwriter and actor1943 – Alan Feduccia , American ornithologist and academic
1944 – Len Goodman , English dancer and actor1944 – Stephen Nickell , English economist and academic
1944 – Bruce Ponder , English academician and educator (University of Cambridge )
1945 – Stu Cook , American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival and Southern Pacific )1945 – Richard C. Hoagland , American theorist and author
1945 – Björn Ulvaeus , Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA and Hootenanny Singers )
1946 – Talia Shire , American actress and producer1946 – Peter Sutherland , Irish lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Ireland
1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky , Russian colonel, lawyer, and politician
1947 – Johan Cruyff , Dutch footballer and manager1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn , American actor
1948 – Mike Selvey , English cricketer and sportscaster1948 – Yu Shyi-kun , Taiwanese politician, 39th Premier of the Republic of China
1949 – Michael Brown , American keyboard player and songwriter (The Left Banke and Stories ) (d. 2015)1949 – James Fenton , English poet and critic
1949 – Vicente Pernía , Argentinian footballer and race car driver
1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn , French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance
1950 – Donnell Deeny , Irish lawyer and judge1950 – Steve Ferrone , English drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Average White Band )
1950 – Peter Jurasik , American actor
1950 – Valentyna Kozyr , Ukrainian high jumper
1950 – Apollo Quiboloy , Filipino religious leader
1951 – Ian McCartney , Scottish politician, Minister of State for Trade 1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad , Norwegian pianist and composer1952 – Vladislav Tretiak , Russian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – Jacques Santini , French footballer and coach
1953 – Ron Clements , American animator, producer, and screenwriter1953 – Anthony Venables , English economist, author, and academic
1954 – Melvin Burgess , English author1954 – Randy Cross , American football player and sportscaster
1954 – Róisín Shortall , Irish educator and politician
1955 – Américo Gallego , Argentinian footballer and coach1955 – Parviz Parastui , Iranian actor and singer
1955 – Zev Siegl , American businessman, co-founded Starbucks
1956 – Dominique Blanc , French actress, director, and screenwriter1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová , Czech actress
1956 – Andres Sõber , Estonian basketball player and coach
1957 – Eric Bristow , English darts player1957 – Theo de Rooij , Dutch cyclist and manager
1958 – Fish , Scottish singer-songwriter and actor (Marillion )1959 – Clarissa Burt , American model and actress1959 – Paul Madden , English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia
1959 – Daniel Kash , Canadian actor and director
1959 – Tony Phillips , American baseball player
1960 – Michael Lohan , American father of Lindsay Lohan 1960 – Robert Peston , English journalist and author
1960 – Bruce Redman , Australian director, producer, and critic
1961 – Dinesh D'Souza , Indian-American journalist and author1962 – Foeke Booy , Dutch footballer and manager1963 – Joy Covey , American businesswoman (d. 2013)1963 – Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu , French actress
1963 – David Moyes , Scottish footballer and manager
1963 – Bernd Müller , German footballer and manager
1963 – Paul Wassif , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – Hank Azaria , American actor and director1964 – Andy Bell , English singer-songwriter and DJ (Erasure )
1964 – Fiona Bruce , Singaporean-English journalist
1965 – Eric Avery , American bass player and songwriter (Jane's Addiction , Deconstruction , and Polar Bear )1965 – Mark Bryant , American basketball player and coach
1965 – Simon Fowler , English singer and guitarist (Ocean Colour Scene and Merrymouth )
1965 – John Henson , American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2014)
1966 – Man Arenas , Belgian-Spanish production designer and illustrator1966 – James Stacy Barbour , American actor and singer
1966 – Diego Domínguez , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1966 – Femke Halsema , Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician
1966 – Darren Holmes , American baseball player and coach
1966 – Erik Pappas , American baseball player and coach
1966 – Rubén Sosa , Uruguayan footballer and coach
1967 – Tim Davie , English broadcaster1968 – Vitaliy Kyrylenko , Ukrainian long jumper1969 – Joe Buck , American sportscaster1969 – Martin Koolhoven , Dutch director and screenwriter
1969 – Gina Torres , American actress
1969 – Darren Woodson , American football player and sportscaster
1969 – Renée Zellweger , American actress and producer
1970 – Jason Lee , American skateboarder, actor, and producer1970 – Tomoko Kawakami , Japanese voice actress (d. 2011)
1970 – Steve Tovar , American football player and coach
1970 – Jason Wiles , American actor, director, and producer
1970 – Kjersti Stubø , Norwegian singer
1971 – Sara Baras , Spanish actress and dancer1971 – Trygve Seim , Norwegian saxophonist
1971 – Brad Clontz , American baseball player
1972 – Zaza Zazirov , Georgian-Ukrainian wrestler1973 – Carlota Castrejana , Spanish triple jumper1973 – Fredrik Larzon , Swedish drummer (Millencolin and Kvoteringen )
1974 – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou 1974 – Dean Phoenix , Mexican porn actor
1975 – Emily Bergl , English-American actress1975 – Jacque Jones , American baseball player and coach
1976 – Gilberto da Silva Melo , Brazilian footballer1976 – Tim Duncan , American basketball player
1976 – Kim Jong-kook , South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Turbo and Running Man Brothers )
1976 – Rainer Schüttler , German tennis player and coach
1976 – Kristin Sutton , American actress
1977 – Constantinos Christoforou , Cypriot singer-songwriter (One )1977 – Ilias Kotsios , Greek footballer
1977 – Tommy Mac , German-Canadian singer and bass player (Hedley )
1977 – Marguerite Moreau , American actress and producer
1977 – Paavo Siljamäki , Finnish DJ and producer (Above & Beyond )
1977 – Matthew West , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1978 – Letícia Birkheuer , Brazilian model and actress1978 – Duncan Kibet , Kenyan runner
1978 – Matt Walker , English swimmer
1980 – Ben Johnston , Scottish drummer and songwriter (Biffy Clyro )1980 – James Johnston , Scottish bass player and songwriter (Biffy Clyro )
1980 – Daniel MacPherson , Australian actor and television host
1980 – Bruce Martin , New Zealand cricketer
1980 – Juri Miyazawa , Japanese actress and model
1980 – Lee Spick , English snooker player (d. 2015)
1980 – Kazuhito Tadano , Japanese baseball player
1980 – Alejandro Valverde , Spanish cyclist
1981 – Dwone Hicks , American football player1981 – Felipe Massa , Brazilian race car driver
1981 – John McFall , English sprinter
1981 – Anja Pärson , Swedish skier
1982 – Brian Barton , American baseball player1982 – Monty Panesar , English cricketer
1982 – Marco Russo , Italian footballer
1983 – J. P. Howell , American baseball player1983 – Joanne Peh , Singaporean actress and singer
1983 – Johnathan Thurston , Australian rugby player
1983 – DeAngelo Williams , American football player
1983 – Nick Willis , New Zealand runner
1984 – Robert Andino , American baseball player1984 – Melonie Diaz , American actress and producer
1984 – Jen Johnson , American model and actress
1984 – Isaac Kiprono Songok , Kenyan runner
1984 – Andre' Woodson , American football player and coach
1985 – Giedo van der Garde , Dutch race car driver1986 – John DeLuca , American actor and singer1986 – Alexei Emelin , Russian ice hockey player
1986 – Claudia Rath , German heptathlete
1986 – Daniel Sharman , English actor
1987 – Razak Boukari , Togolese footballer1987 – Jay Park , American-South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (2PM and Art of Movement )
1987 – Johann Smith , American soccer player
1988 – James Sheppard , Canadian ice hockey player1988 – Sara Paxton , American actress and singer
1989 – Victor Engström , Swedish Bandy player (d. 2013)1989 – Marie-Michèle Gagnon , Canadian skier
1989 – Michael van Gerwen , Dutch darts player
1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima , Chinese 11th Panchen Lama
1990 – Jean-Éric Vergne , French race car driver1990 – Taylor Walker , Australian footballer
1991 – Alex Shibutani , American ice dancer1993 – Alex Bowman , American race car driver1993 – Daniel Norris , American baseball player
1993 – Raphaël Varane , French footballer
1994 – Elena Ilinykh , Russian ice dancer1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm , American actress
501 – Saint Rusticus , French archbishop (b. 455)1077 – Géza I of Hungary (b. 1040)1185 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)1265 – Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester , medieval English nobleman; Earl of Winchester (b. 1195)1295 – Sancho IV of Castile (b. 1258)1342 – Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)1397 – Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent , English noblemen and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England (b. c. 1350/4)1472 – Leon Battista Alberti , Italian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)1516 – John Yonge , English diplomat (b. 1467)1566 – Diane de Poitiers , French mistress of Henry II of France (b. 1499)1566 – Louise Labé , French poet and author (b. 1520)
1595 – Torquato Tasso , Italian poet and songwriter (b. 1544)1644 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (b. 1611)1660 – Henry Hammond , English cleric and theologian (b. 1605)1690 – David Teniers the Younger , Flemish painter and educator (b. 1610)1744 – Anders Celsius , Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701)1770 – Jean-Antoine Nollet , French minister, physicist, and academic (b. 1700)1800 – William Cowper , English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1731)1827 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1751)1840 – Siméon Denis Poisson , French mathematician and physicist (b. 1781)1873 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy , Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1783)1875 – 12th Dalai Lama (b. 1857)1878 – Anna Sewell , English author (b. 1820)1891 – Nathaniel Woodard , English priest and educator (b. 1811)1892 – Henri Duveyrier , French explorer (b. 1840)1892 – Karl von Ditmar , Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
1906 – John Knowles Paine , American composer and educator (b. 1839)1911 – Emilio Salgari , Italian journalist and author (b. 1862)1913 – Joseph-Alfred Archambeault , Canadian bishop (b. 1859)1915 – Frederick W. Seward , American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)1919 – Augustus D. Juilliard , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1836)1923 – Louis-Olivier Taillon , Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (b. 1840)1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel , Russian general (b. 1878)1937 – Michał Drzymała , Polish rebel (b. 1857)1941 – Salih Bozok , Turkish commander and politician (b. 1881)1943 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Russian director, producer, and playwright (b. 1858)1944 – George Herriman , American cartoonist (b. 1880)1944 – Tony Mullane , Irish-American baseball player (b. 1859)
1944 – William Stephens , American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
1945 – Huldreich Georg Früh , Swiss composer (b. 1903)1961 – Robert Garrett , American discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1875)1968 – Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , Indian singer (b. 1902)1972 – George Sanders , English actor and singer (b. 1906)1973 – Olga Grey , Hungarian-American actress (b. 1896)1975 – Mike Brant , Cypriot-Israeli singer (b. 1947)1976 – Carol Reed , English director and producer (b. 1906)1976 – Markus Reiner , Israeli engineer and educator (b. 1886)
1978 – Lee Kim Lai , Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)1980 – Katia Mann , German wife of Thomas Mann (b. 1883)1982 – John Cody , American cardinal (b. 1907)1983 – William S. Bowdern , American priest and author (b. 1897)1985 – Uku Masing , Estonian philosopher and theologist (b. 1909)1988 – Carolyn Franklin , American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)1988 – Clifford D. Simak , American journalist and author (b. 1904)
1988 – Valerie Solanas , American author and playwright (b. 1936)
1990 – Dexter Gordon , American saxophonist, composer, and actor (b. 1923)1992 – Yutaka Ozaki , Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)1993 – Rosita Moreno , Spanish-American actress (b. 1907)1995 – Art Fleming , American game show host and actor (b. 1925)1995 – Ginger Rogers , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
1996 – Saul Bass , American graphic designer and director (b. 1920)1998 – Wright Morris , American author and photographer (b. 1910)1998 – Christian Mortensen , Danish-American super-centenarian (b. 1882)
1999 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin , Irish journalist and author (b. 1914)1999 – Roger Troutman , American singer-songwriter and producer (Zapp and Parliament-Funkadelic ) (b. 1951)
2000 – Lucien Le Cam , French mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)2000 – David Merrick , American director and producer (b. 1911)
2001 – Michele Alboreto , Italian race car driver (b. 1956)2002 – Indra Devi , Russian yoga teacher (b. 1899)2002 – Lisa Lopes , American rapper and dancer (TLC ) (b. 1971)
2002 – Athanasios Papoulis , Greek-American mathematician and engineer (b. 1921)
2003 – Samson Kitur , Kenyan runner (b. 1966)2004 – Thom Gunn , English-American poet and academic (b. 1929)2005 – Swami Ranganathananda , Indian monk and educator (b. 1908)2006 – Jane Jacobs , American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1916)2007 – Alan Ball, Jr. , English footballer and manager (b. 1945)2007 – Arthur Milton , English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
2007 – Bobby Pickett , American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton , English trumpet player, composer, and radio host (b. 1921)2009 – Bea Arthur , American actress and singer (b. 1922)2010 – Dorothy Provine , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1935)2010 – Alan Sillitoe , English author and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2011 – Poly Styrene , British musician (X-Ray Spex ) (b. 1957)2012 – Gerry Bahen , Australian footballer (b. 1929)2012 – Charles G. Hall , American photographer and journalist (b. 1930)
2012 – Denny Jones , American rancher and politician (b. 1910)
2012 – Moscelyne Larkin , American ballerina and educator (b. 1925)
2012 – Louis le Brocquy , Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1916)
2012 – Paul L. Smith , American-Israeli actor and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Brian Adam , Scottish biochemist and politician (b. 1948)2013 – Jacob Avshalomov , American composer and conductor (b. 1919)
2013 – György Berencsi , Hungarian virologist and academic (b. 1941)
2013 – Rick Camp , American baseball player (b. 1953)
2013 – Virginia Gibson , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
2013 – Johnny Lockwood , English-Australian actor (b. 1920)
2013 – Anna Proclemer , Italian actress (b. 1923)
2013 – Yoshio Tabata , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919)
2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun , American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)2014 – Dan Heap , Canadian priest and politician (b. 1925)
2014 – William Judson Holloway, Jr. , American soldier, lawyer, and judge (b. 1923)
2014 – Connor Michalek , American cancer victim (b. 2005)
2014 – Earl Morrall , American football player and coach (b. 1934)
2014 – Tito Vilanova , Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1968)
2014 – Stefanie Zweig , German journalist and author (b. 1932)
2015 – Colin Bloomfield , English radio host (b. 1982)2015 – Jim Fanning , American-Canadian baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
2015 – Dan Fredinburg , American businessman (b. 1981)
2015 – Matthias Kuhle , German geographer and academic (b. 1948)
2015 – Sabeen Mahmud , Pakistani activist (b. 1975)
2015 – Mike Phillips , American basketball player (b. 1956)
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