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February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year (308 in leap years ).
380 – Edict of Thessalonica : Emperor Theodosius I , with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II , declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity .
425 – The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia .
907 – Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu , establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
1560 – The Treaty of Berwick , which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo , ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea .
1626 – Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong , after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci .
1700 – The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 – American Revolutionary War : The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 , Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress .
1809 – Action of 27 February 1809 : Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine
1812 – Argentine War of Independence : Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords , in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire .
1829 – Battle of Tarqui is fought.
1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti .
1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 – American Civil War : The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia .
1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 – First Boer War : The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 – King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 – Second Boer War : In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg .
1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 – Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
1902 – Second Boer War : Australian soldiers Harry 'Breaker' Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for war crimes .
1921 – The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna .
1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , allowing women the right to vote , is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett .
1933 – Reichstag fire : Germany 's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag , is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
1939 – United States labor law : The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 .
1942 – World War II : During the Battle of the Java Sea , an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies .
1943 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana , explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 – The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin.
1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution , limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1955 – Soviet Union regional elections, 1955 .
1961 – The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 – Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm .
1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch , since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo .
1964 – The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem ) start to perform aborti provocati .
1973 – The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota .
1976 – The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara , under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic .
1986 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
1988 – Sumgait pogrom : The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.
1989 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
1991 – Gulf War : U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
1995 – Zakho : A terrorist explosion in a market in the city of Zakho leaves about 100 dead and 150 wounded.
2002 – Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport . Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair 's handling of the evacuation.
2002 – Godhra train burning : A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya , killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
2004 – A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines ' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report , with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States , is released.
2007 – The Chinese Correction : The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
2010 – An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
2012 – A section of a nine-story apartment building in the city of Astrakhan , Russia, collapses in a natural gas explosion , killing ten people and injuring at least 12 others.
2013 – At least 19 people are killed when a fire breaks out at an illegal market in Kolkata , India.
2013 – Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau , Switzerland.
2015 – A gunman kills seven people then himself in a series of shootings in Tyrone, Missouri .
272 – Constantine the Great , Roman emperor (d. 337)
1572 – Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1632)
1575 – John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1616)
1606 – Laurent de La Hyre , French painter (d. 1656)
1630 – Roche Braziliano , Dutch pirate (d. 1671)
1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł , Prussian-Lithuanian wife of Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1695)
1689 – Pietro Gnocchi , Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
1691 – Edward Cave , English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine (d. 1754)
1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos , Ottoman ruler (d. 1769)
1724 – Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1767)
1732 – Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin , French cardinal (d. 1804)
1746 – Louis-Jérôme Gohier , French politician, French Minister of Justice (d. 1830)
1748 – Anders Erikson Sparrman , Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
1767 – Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure , French lawyer and politician, 24th Prime Minister of France (d. 1855)
1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst , English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (d. 1842)
1789 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza , Chilean lawyer and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1818)
1795 – José Antonio Navarro , American merchant and politician (d. 1871)
1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American poet and educator (d. 1882)
1809 – Jean-Charles Cornay , French missionary and saint (d. 1837)
1812 – Pieter Harting , Dutch biologist and botanist (d. 1885)
1831 – Nikolai Ge , Russian painter (d. 1894)
1846 – Franz Mehring , German historian and politician (d. 1919)
1847 – Ellen Terry , English actress (d. 1928)
1848 – Hubert Parry , English composer and historian (d. 1918)
1850 – Laura E. Richards , American author and poet (d. 1943)
1856 – Mattia Battistini , Italian opera singer (d. 1928)
1859 – Bertha Pappenheim , Austrian-German activist and author (d. 1936)
1862 – Anastasios Metaxas , Greek target shooter and architect (d. 1937)
1863 – Joaquín Sorolla , Spanish painter (d. 1923)
1863 – George Herbert Mead , American sociologist and philosopher (d. 1930)
1864 – Eemil Nestor Setälä , Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1935)
1867 – Irving Fisher , American economist and statistician (d. 1947)
1867 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger , Swedish composer and critic (d. 1942)
1869 – Alice Hamilton , American physician and academic (d. 1970)
1870 – Louis Coerne , American composer and educator (d. 1922)
1872 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod , Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1950)
1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr. , American businessman (d. 1952)
1877 – Adela Verne , English pianist and composer (d. 1952)
1878 – Alvan T. Fuller , American politician, 50th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1879 – René Lefebvre , French businessman (d. 1944)
1881 – Sveinn Björnsson , Danish-Icelandic lawyer and politician, 1st President of Iceland (d. 1952)
1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer , Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1966)
1882 – George Terwilliger , American film director and screenwriter (d. 1970)
1886 – Hugo Black , American captain, jurist, and politician (d. 1971)
1887 – Pyotr Nesterov , Russian captain, pilot, and engineer (d. 1914)
1888 – Roberto Assagioli , Italian psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1974)
1888 – Earl Caddock , American wrestler (d. 1950)
1888 – Lotte Lehmann , German soprano (d. 1976)
1888 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. , American historian and academic (d. 1965)
1890 – Freddie Keppard , American cornet player (d. 1933)
1891 – David Sarnoff , Belarusian-American journalist and businessman, founded RCA (d. 1971)
1892 – William Demarest , American actor and singer (d. 1983)
1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu , Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
1897 – Marian Anderson , American singer (d. 1993)
1899 – Charles Herbert Best , American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)
1899 – Ian Keith , American actor (d. 1960)
1901 – Marino Marini , Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980)
1902 – Gene Sarazen , American golfer and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1902 – Ethelda Bleibtrey , American swimmer (d. 1978)
1902 – Lúcio Costa , French-Brazilian architect and engineer, designed Gustavo Capanema Palace (d. 1998)
1902 – John Steinbeck , American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1903 – Ion Irimescu , Romanian sculptor and illustrator (d. 2005)
1903 – Grethe Weiser , German actress and singer (d. 1970)
1903 – Reginald Gardiner , English-American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1904 – James T. Farrell , American author and poet (d. 1979)
1904 – Chick Fullis , American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton , Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)
1904 – André Leducq , French cyclist (d. 1980)
1905 – Franchot Tone , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1968)
1907 – Mildred Bailey , American singer (d. 1951)
1907 – Momčilo Đujić , Serbian-American priest and commander (d. 1999)
1909 – Väinö Myllyrinne , Finnish giant (d. 1963)
1910 – Joan Bennett , American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1910 – Peter De Vries , American editor and novelist (d. 1993)
1910 – Ted Horn , American race car driver (d. 1948)
1910 – Kelly Johnson , American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
1910 – Genrikh Kasparyan , Armenian chess player (d. 1995)
1912 – Kusumagraj , Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999)
1912 – Lawrence Durrell , Indian-French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1990)
1913 – Paul Ricœur , French philosopher and academic (d. 2005)
1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat , Polish soldier and politician, President of Poland (d. 1989)
1913 – Irwin Shaw , American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1915 – Olavi Virta , Finnish singer (d. 1972)
1915 – Denis Whitaker , Canadian general, football player, and businessman (d. 2001)
1917 – John Connally , American lieutenant and politician, 61st United States Secretary of Treasury (d. 1993)
1921 – Theodore Van Kirk , American soldier, pilot, and navigator (d. 2014)
1922 – Hans Rookmaaker , Dutch historian, author, and scholar (d. 1977)
1923 – Dexter Gordon , American saxophonist, composer, and actor (d. 1990)
1925 – Samuel Dash , American lawyer and academic (d. 2004)
1925 – Hardrock Gunter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1926 – David H. Hubel , Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1927 – Lynn Cartwright , American actress (d. 2004)
1927 – Peter Whittle , New Zealand-English mathematician and theorist
1928 – Alfred Hrdlicka , Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 2009)
1929 – Bella Flores , Filipino actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Jack Gibson , Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
1929 – Stefan Kudelski , Polish engineer, invented the Nagra (d. 2013)
1929 – Djalma Santos , Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
1930 – Jovan Krkobabić , Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2014)
1930 – Peter Stone , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer , American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
1930 – Joanne Woodward , American actress and producer
1932 – Elizabeth Taylor , English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2011)
1932 – David Young, Baron Young of Graffham , English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1933 – Raymond Berry , American football player and coach
1933 – Edward Lucie-Smith , British poet, author, and critic
1934 – Vincent Fourcade , French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 – N. Scott Momaday , American author and academic
1934 – Ralph Nader , American lawyer and politician
1934 – Van Williams , American actor
1935 – Mirella Freni , Italian soprano and actress
1935 – Brian Heap , English biologist and academic
1935 – Uri Shulevitz , American author and illustrator
1936 – Ron Barassi , Australian footballer and coach
1936 – Roger Mahony , American cardinal
1937 – Barbara Babcock , American actress
1937 – Aslan Usoyan , Georgian-Russian mobster (d. 2013)
1938 – Jake Thackray , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002)
1939 – Don McKinnon , English-New Zealand politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
1939 – Peter Revson , American race car driver (d. 1974)
1940 – Pierre Duchesne , Canadian politician, 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
1940 – Howard Hesseman , American actor
1940 – Bill Hunter , Australian actor (d. 2011)
1941 – Paddy Ashdown , Indian-English captain and politician
1942 – Jimmy Burns , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Michel Forget , Canadian actor
1942 – Robert H. Grubbs , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault , American journalist
1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff , German footballer (d. 2011)
1943 – Mary Frann , American actress (d. 1998)
1943 – Morten Lauridsen , American composer and conductor
1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira , Brazilian footballer and manager
1944 – Ken Grimwood , American author (d. 2003)
1944 – Graeme Pollock , South African cricketer and coach
1944 – Roger Scruton , English philosopher and author
1945 – Carl Anderson , American singer and actor (d. 2004)
1947 – Alan Guth , American physicist and cosmologist
1947 – Gidon Kremer , Latvian violinist and conductor
1949 – Istvan Banyai , Hungarian illustrator and animator
1949 – Rosalinda Galli , Italian voice actress
1949 – Robert Paterson , English bishop
1950 – Gilla , Austrian singer
1950 – Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger , English rabbi and politician
1950 – Annabel Goldie , Scottish lawyer and politician
1951 – Lee Atwater , American politician (d. 1991)
1951 – Steve Harley , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cockney Rebel )
1951 – Janet Steinbeck , Australian swimmer
1952 – Stathis Psaltis , Greek actor
1953 – Gavin Esler , Scottish journalist and author
1953 – Ian Khama , English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician, 4th President of Botswana
1953 – Yolande Moreau , Belgian actress and director
1954 – JoAnn Falletta , American conductor
1954 – Neal Schon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Journey , Santana , Bad English , and Hardline )
1955 – Peter Christopherson , English keyboard player, songwriter, and director (Coil and Throbbing Gristle (d. 2010)
1955 – Lou Hirsch , American actor
1956 – Anne Veski , Estonian singer
1957 – Danny Antonucci , Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Robert de Castella , Australian runner
1957 – Adrian Smith , English guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden , ASAP , and Psycho Motel , and Urchin )
1957 – Timothy Spall , English actor and singer
1958 – Naas Botha , South African rugby player
1958 – Max Crivello , Italian illustrator
1958 – Maggie Hassan , American lawyer and politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire
1958 – Nancy Spungen , American murder victim, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (d. 1978)
1959 – Frédéric Durieux , French composer
1959 – Vardan Petrosyan , Armenian-French actor and screenwriter
1959 – Johnny Van Zant , American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Zant )
1960 – Andrés Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis player
1960 – Paul Humphreys , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , The Listening Pool , and Onetwo )
1960 – Carson Yeung , Hong Kong businessman
1961 – James Worthy , American basketball player and sportscaster
1962 – Adam Baldwin , American actor
1962 – Grant Show , American actor
1962 – Robert Spencer , American author and blogger
1963 – Barbara Dare , American porn actress
1963 – Cynthia Layne , American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1963 – Nasty Suicide , Finnish guitarist (Hanoi Rocks and The Suicide Twins )
1963 – Pär Nuder , Swedish politician
1964 – Todd Bodine , American race car driver
1964 – John Pyper-Ferguson , Australian-Canadian actor
1964 – Thomas Lange , German rower and physician
1964 – Jeffrey Pasley , professor of American history at the University of Missouri
1965 – Noah Emmerich , American actor
1965 – Pedro Chaves , Portuguese race car driver
1966 – Donal Logue , Canadian actor and director
1966 – Baltasar Kormákur , Icelandic actor, director, and producer
1967 – Volkan Konak , Turkish singer
1967 – Dănuț Lupu , Romanian footballer
1968 – Matt Stairs , Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Stuart MacBride , Scottish author
1969 – Gareth Llewellyn , Welsh rugby player and coach
1970 – Kent Desormeaux , American jockey
1970 – Patricia Petibon , French coloratura soprano
1971 – Sara Blakely , American businesswoman, founded Spanx
1971 – Derren Brown , English magician and painter
1971 – Roman Giertych , Polish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
1971 – Rozonda Thomas , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC )
1972 – Jennifer Lyon , American contestant on Survivor: Palau (d. 2010)
1973 – Peter Andre , English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
1973 – Li Bingbing , Chinese actress and singer
1973 – Ali Tabatabaee , Iranian-American singer-songwriter (Zebrahead )
1973 – Mark Taylor , Welsh rugby player and manager
1974 – Julie Andrieu , French radio and television host
1974 – Colin Edwards , American motorcycle racer
1974 – Carte Goodwin , American lawyer and politician
1974 – Movlud Miraliyev , Uzbekistani-Azerbaijani martial artist
1975 – Nikita Gross , Czech-Russian porn actress and model
1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou , Greek decathlete
1975 – Christopher B. Landon , American director and screenwriter
1975 – Eugenia Manolidou , Greek composer and conductor
1976 – Tony Gonzalez , American football player and sportscaster
1976 – Yukari Tamura , Japanese voice actress and singer
1976 – Sergei Semak , Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
1977 – Ji Sung , South Korean actor
1977 – James Wan , Malaysian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – James Beattie , English footballer and manager
1978 – Kakha Kaladze , Georgian footballer
1978 – Emelie Öhrstig , Swedish skier and cyclist
1980 – Brandon Beemer , American model and actor
1980 – Chelsea Clinton , American journalist and academic
1980 – Don Diablo , Dutch singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
1980 – Scott Prince , Australian rugby player
1980 – Bobby V , American singer-songwriter (Mista )
1981 – Will Devaughn , German-Filipino model and actor
1981 – Evi Goffin , Belgian singer-songwriter (Lasgo )
1981 – Josh Groban , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1981 – Cameron Ling , Australian footballer
1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo , Belgian sprinter
1981 – Alessandro Rottoli , Italian footballer
1982 – Ali Bastian , English actress
1982 – Benjamin Bradley , American porn actor
1982 – Amedy Coulibaly , French criminal (d. 2015)
1982 – Bruno Soares , Brazilian tennis player
1983 – Duje Draganja , Croatian swimmer
1983 – Devin Harris , American basketball player
1983 – Hayley Angel Holt , English actress and singer
1983 – Kate Mara , American actress
1983 – Mohammed Nabbous , Libyan journalist (d. 2011)
1983 – Pat Richards , Australian rugby league player
1983 – Vítězslav Veselý , Czech javelin thrower
1984 – David Noel , American basketball player
1984 – Aníbal Sánchez , American baseball player
1984 – Lotta Schelin , Swedish footballer
1984 – Antti Tuisku , Finnish singer
1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov , Russian footballer
1985 – Braydon Coburn , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Vladislav Kulik , Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1986 – Yovani Gallardo , American baseball player
1986 – Jonathan Moreira , Brazilian footballer
1986 – Sandeep Singh , Indian field hockey player
1987 – Djaïd Kasri , French-Algerian footballer
1987 – Kristian Marmor , Estonian footballer
1987 – Sandy Paillot , French footballer
1987 – Scott Davies , English footballer
1988 – Iain Ramsay , Australian footballer
1988 – Dustin Jeffrey , Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – David Button , English footballer
1989 – Shota Shimizu , Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 – Matt Lapinskas , English actor
1989 – Stefano Langone , American singer
1989 – Xiao Xun , Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl )
1989 – Lloyd Rigby , English footballer
1990 – Lindsey Morgan , American actress
1990 – Megan Young , Filipino model and actress, Miss World 2013
1991 – Azeem Rafiq , Pakistani cricketer
1992 – Ty Dillon , American race car driver
1992 – Meyers Leonard , American basketball player
1992 – Ioannis Potouridis , Greek footballer
1992 – Jonjo Shelvey , English footballer
1992 – Callum Wilson , English footballer
1993 – Alphonse Aréola , French-Filipino footballer
1993 – Gong Seung-yeon , South Korean actress
1994 – Hou Yifan , Chinese chess player
1995 – Laura Gulbe , Latvian tennis player
2007 – Lance Lucido , Filipino actor
640 – Pepin of Landen , Frankish politician (b. 580)
956 – Theophylact of Constantinople (b. 917)
1659 – Henry Dunster , English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609)
1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1625)
1702 – Münejjim Bashi , Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historian
1706 – John Evelyn , English gardener and author (b. 1620)
1720 – Samuel Parris , English-American minister (b. 1653)
1735 – John Arbuthnot , Scottish physician and polymath (b. 1667)
1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
1844 – Nicholas Biddle , American banker and politician (b. 1786)
1887 – Alexander Borodin , Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
1892 – Louis Vuitton , French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
1902 – Peter Handcock , Australian lieutenant (b. 1868)
1902 – Breaker Morant , English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
1921 – Schofield Haigh , English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
1928 – Jürgen Kröger , German architect (b. 1856)
1931 – Chandra Shekhar Azad , Indian activist (b. 1906)
1932 – William Southam , Canadian publisher (b. 1843)
1936 – Joshua W. Alexander , American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
1936 – Ivan Pavlov , Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
1937 – Emily Malbone Morgan , American saint, founded the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross (b. 1862)
1941 – William D. Byron , American politician (b. 1895)
1943 – Kostis Palamas , Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
1956 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1888)
1964 – Orry-Kelly , Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
1968 – Frankie Lymon , American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers ) (b. 1942)
1969 – Marius Barbeau , Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
1972 – Pat Brady , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1973 – Bill Everett , American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
1977 – John Dickson Carr , American author and playwright (b. 1905)
1978 – Vadim Salmanov , Russian composer (b. 1912)
1980 – George Tobias , American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert , American politician (b. 1920)
1985 – Ray Ellington , English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
1985 – J. Pat O'Malley , English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
1986 – Jacques Plante , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
1987 – Bill Holman , American cartoonist (b. 1903)
1987 – Joan Greenwood , English actress and director (b. 1921)
1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert , German astronomer (b. 1897)
1989 – Konrad Lorenz , Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer , Ukrainian-American scholar and theologian (b. 1903)
1990 – Josephine Johnson , American author and poet (b. 1910)
1992 – S. I. Hayakawa , Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 – Lillian Gish , American actress and director (b. 1893)
1998 – George H. Hitchings , American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1998 – J. T. Walsh , American actor (b. 1943)
1999 – Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
2002 – Spike Milligan , Indian-Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
2003 – John Lanchbery , English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
2003 – Fred Rogers , American minister and television host (b. 1928)
2004 – Yoshihiko Amino , Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
2004 – Paul Sweezy , American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
2006 – Otis Chandler , American publisher (b. 1927)
2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , American general and author (b. 1908)
2006 – Linda Smith , English comedian and author (b. 1958)
2007 – Bobby Rosengarden , American drummer (b. 1924)
2007 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven , German general (b. 1914)
2008 – Ivan Rebroff , German singer (b. 1931)
2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr. , American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)
2008 – Boyd Coddington , American motorcycle designer (b. 1944)
2008 – Myron Cope , American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929)
2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh , Indian educator and activist (b. 1916)
2011 – Frank Buckles , American soldier (b. 1901)
2011 – Necmettin Erbakan , Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
2011 – Duke Snider , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
2011 – Gary Winick , American director and producer (b. 1961)
2012 – Vince Dantona , American ventriloquist (b. 1949)
2012 – Ma Jiyuan , Chinese general (b. 1921)
2012 – Tina Strobos , Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920)
2012 – Helga Vlahović , Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
2013 – Van Cliburn , American pianist (b. 1934)
2013 – Ramon Dekkers , Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969)
2013 – Stéphane Hessel , German-French diplomat and author (b. 1917)
2013 – Richard Street , American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors ) (b. 1942)
2013 – Adolfo Zaldívar , Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Aaron Allston , American game designer and author (b. 1960)
2014 – Tim Kehoe , American chemist and author (b. 1970)
2014 – Huber Matos , Cuban-American activist (b. 1918)
2014 – Terry Rand , American basketball player (b. 1934)
2014 – Vicente T. Ximenes , American activist (b. 1919)
2015 – Richard Bakalyan , American actor (b. 1931)
2015 – Bob Benmosche , American businessman (b. 1944)
2015 – Boris Nemtsov , Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1959)
2015 – Leonard Nimoy , American actor, singer, and director (b. 1931)
2015 – Julio César Strassera , Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933)
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