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September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 117 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
- 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
- 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
- 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
- 1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
- 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- 1800 – Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.
- 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses.
- 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
- 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1839 – United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.
- 1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
- 1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
- 1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon.
- 1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- 1877 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
- 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
- 1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- 1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
- 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
- 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 1918 – Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
- 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.
- 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 1938 – Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
- 1941 – Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
- 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- 1944 – Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
- 1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1948 – In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
- 1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
- 1961 – The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
- 1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.
- 1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
- 1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1977 – Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1978 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.
- 2000 – The Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
- 2000 – Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
- 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
[edit] Births
- 973 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Khwarezmi-born Persian polymath (d. 1048)
- 1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
- 1319 – Peter IV of Aragon (d. 1387)
- 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese Samurai and Daimyo (d. 1636)
- 1568 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet (d. 1639)
- 1621 – Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble (d. 1694)
- 1638 – Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- 1667 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (d. 1733)
- 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
- 1722 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (d. 1763)
- 1725 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)
- 1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- 1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774)
- 1769 – John Shortland, English naval officer (d. 1810)
- 1771 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (d. 1847)
- 1772 – Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar, Qajar king of Iran (d. 1834)
- 1774 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1775 – Juan Martín Díez, Spanish guerrilla (d. 1825)
- 1781 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer, editor and music publisher (d. 1858)
- 1787 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1850)
- 1791 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (d. 1864)
- 1792 – Pierre-Armand Dufrénoy, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1857)
- 1806 – Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (d. 1865)
- 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
- 1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, Chilean politician (d. 1880)
- 1817 – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1875)
- 1818 – Edmund Kennedy, Australian explorer (d. 1848)
- 1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (d. 1884)
- 1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer (d. 1849)
- 1831 – Victorien Sardou, French dramatist (d. 1908)
- 1836 – Justiniano Borgoño, President of Peru (d. 1921)
- 1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)
- 1856 – Thomas E. Watson, American politician, Vice-Presidential candidate (d. 1922)
- 1867 – Amy Beach, American composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- 1873 – Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American inventor, engineer, soldier (d. 1942)
- 1874 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
- 1876 – Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956)
- 1876 – Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
- 1881 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician (d. 1938)
- 1883 – Otto Erich Deutsch, Austrian musicologist, cataloguer of Franz Schubert's works (d. 1967)
- 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (d. 1975)
- 1892 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Morris Carnovsky, American stage and film actor (d. 1992)
- 1897 – Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst (d. 1980)
- 1897 – Ella Schuler, American supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1901 – Florence Eldridge, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1901 – Mario Scelba, Italian politician (d. 1991)
- 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and executive (d. 1979)
- 1904 – Vera Bradford, Australian classical pianist (d. 2004)
- 1905 – Maurice Challe, French general (d. 1979)
- 1905 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Sunnyland Slim, blues pianist (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (d. 1973)
- 1908 – Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Cuban-Spanish pianist, composer (d. 2004)
- 1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist, conductor (d. 1971)
- 1909 – Bernard Delfont, English entrepreneur (d. 1994)
- 1909 – Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
- 1910 – Leila Mackinlay, British romance writer (d.1996)
- 1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
- 1912 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1912 – Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- 1912 – Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984)
- 1914 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet and mathematician
- 1916 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991
- 1917 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter, film director, and actor (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Bob Katter, Sr., Australian politician, minister (d. 1990)
- 1918 – Jean-Marie Poitras, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2009)
- 1918 – Harold "Buddy" Williams, Australian country singer (d. 1986)
- 1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1945)
- 1920 – Peter Racine Fricker, British-American composer (d. 1990)
- 1921 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (d. 2007)
- 1923 – David Hamer, Australian politician (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Ken Meuleman, Australian cricketer (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Paul Dietzel, American college football coach
- 1927 – Paul Volcker, American economist
- 1928 – Joyce Hatto, British pianist, subject of fraudulent recordings (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak style (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian
- 1929 – Andrian Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- 1933 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilien Catholic archbishop
- 1934 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
- 1935 – Johnny Briggs, English actor
- 1935 – Paul Josef Cordes, German Roman Catholic Cardinal
- 1935 – Werner Erhard, American founder of transformational training programs
- 1935 – Helen Gifford, Australian composer
- 1936 – Robert Burns, Canadian politician
- 1936 – John Danforth, American politician
- 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
- 1936 – Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
- 1937 – Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
- 1937 – William Devane, American actor
- 1937 – Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
- 1938 – John Ferguson Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Claudette Colvin, American civil rights movement leader (Montgomery Bus Boycott)
- 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor
- 1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss racing driver (d. 2006)
- 1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)
- 1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress
- 1941 – Dave Dryden, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1942 – Denise Fabre French television presenter
- 1942 – Werner Herzog, German film director
- 1942 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995
- 1943 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (d. 2007)
- 1944 – Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (d. 1996)
- 1944 – Gareth Evans, Australian politician, University Chancellor
- 1945 – Al Stewart, Scottish singer and songwriter
- 1946 – Dennis Dugan, American actor and film director
- 1946 – Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born English singer and songwriter (Queen) (d. 1991)
- 1946 – Loudon Wainwright III, American singer and composer
- 1947 – Buddy Miles, American musician (d. 2008)
- 1947 – Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
- 1947 – Bruce Yardley, Australian cricketer
- 1948 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1949 – Clem Clempson , English rock guitarist
- 1950 – Cathy Guisewite, American cartoonist
- 1950 – Paul William Roberts, Canadian writer
- 1951 – Paul Breitner, German footballer
- 1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor
- 1951 – Patti McGuire, American model and television producer
- 1953 – Victor Davis Hanson, American historian
- 1954 – Richard Austin, West Indian cricketer
- 1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive
- 1956 – Roine Stolt, Swedish guitarist (The Flower Kings)
- 1957 – Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete
- 1961 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist
- 1962 – Peter Wingfield, Welsh actor
- 1963 – Juan Alderete, American bassist (Racer X)
- 1963 – Kristian Alfonso, American actress
- 1963 – Jeff Brantley, American baseball player
- 1963 – Taki Inoue, Japanese racing driver
- 1963 – Jonathan Phillips, English actor
- 1964 – Frank Farina, Australian footballer
- 1964 – Ken Norman, American basketball player
- 1964 – Amanda Ooms, Swedish actress
- 1964 – Kevin Saunderson American electronic music producer
- 1965 – David Brabham, Australian racing driver
- 1965 – Chris Gore, American filmmaker
- 1965 – Chris Morris, English satirist
- 1965 – César Rincón, Colombian matador
- 1966 – Achero Mañas, Spanish actor and film director
- 1966 – Milinko Pantić, Serbian footballer
- 1966 – Terry Ellis, R&B singer
- 1967 – India Hicks, English model
- 1967 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
- 1968 – Dennis Scott, American basketball player
- 1968 – Brad Wilk, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
- 1969 – Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – Mark Ramprakash, English cricketer
- 1969 – Dweezil Zappa, American musician
- 1970 – Kim Hye-su, South Korean actress and model
- 1970 – Liam Lynch, American musician (Sifl and Olly)
- 1970 – Mohammad Rafique, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1971 – Adam Hollioake, England cricketer
- 1972 – Shane Sewell, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1972 – Guy Whittall, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1973 – Paddy Considine, English actor
- 1973 – Alexandra Kerry, daughter of American Senator John Kerry
- 1973 – Rose McGowan, Italian-born actress
- 1974 – Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer
- 1975 – Rod Barajas, American baseball player
- 1975 – George Boateng, Dutch footballer
- 1975 – Matt Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American horrorcore rapper
- 1976 – Tatyana Gutsu, Ukrainian gymnast
- 1976 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
- 1976 – Richard Marsland, Australian comedian/writer and radio personality
- 1977 – Rosevelt Colvin, American football player
- 1977 – Joseba Etxeberria, Spanish football winger
- 1977 – Minoru Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1977 – Alexey Harkov, Russian bassist (Kipelov, Sergey Mavrin)
- 1977 – Nazr Mohammed, American Basketball player
- 1978 – Laura Bertram, Canadian actress
- 1978 – Chris Jack, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1978 – Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer
- 1978 – Yu Nan, Chinese actress
- 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player
- 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
- 1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
- 1979 – Stewart Holden, English scrabble player
- 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer
- 1979 – George O'Callaghan, Irish footballer
- 1980 – Franco Costanzo, Argentinian football goalkeeper
- 1981 – AnnMarie, American pornographic actress
- 1981 – Nina Eichinger, German actress
- 1981 – Daniel Moreno, Spanish professional bicyclist
- 1981 – Filippo Volandri, Italian tennis player
- 1982 – Alexandre Geijo, Spanish/Swiss footballer
- 1982 – Sondre Lerche, Norwegian musician
- 1983 – Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer
- 1983 – Pablo Granoche, Uruguayan footballer
- 1983 – Antony Sweeney, Hartlepool United footballer
- 1984 – Chris Anker Sørensen, Danish professional bicyclist
- 1985 – Ryan Guy, American soccer player
- 1986 – Colt McCoy, American football player
- 1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
- 1987 – Pierre Casiraghi, Monegasque royal
- 1987 – Silvestre Rasuk, American actor
- 1988 – Nuri Şahin, Turkish footballer
- 1988 – Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
- 1989 – Katerina Graham, American actress/singer/dancer
- 1989 – José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
- 1989 – Ben Youngs, English rugby union Scrum-Half
- 1990 – Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
- 1990 – Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
- 1990 – Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer
- 1991 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
- 1993 – Gage Golightly, American actress
- 1995 – Caroline Sunshine, American actress
[edit] Deaths
- 1165 – Emperor Nijo of Japan (b. 1143)
- 1201 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1161)
- 1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165)
- 1548 – Catherine Parr, Sixth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c.1512)
- 1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
- 1629 – Domenico Allegri, Italian composer (b. c.1585)
- 1734 – Nicolas Bernier, French musician and composer (b. 1664)
- 1786 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist (b. 1712)
- 1803 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1803 – François Devienne, French composer (b. 1759)
- 1808 – John Home, Scottish writer (b. 1722)
- 1836 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian playwright (b. 1790)
- 1837 – James Ruse, pioneer Australian farmer (b. 1759)
- 1838 – Charles Percier, French architect (b. 1764)
- 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1876 – Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
- 1877 – Crazy Horse, Lakota (Sioux) chief (b. 1849)
- 1898 – Sarah Edmonds, Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy (b. 1841)
- 1901 – Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (b. 1853)
- 1902 – Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician (b. 1821)
- 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (b. 1844)
- 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
- 1914 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
- 1917 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (b. 1872)
- 1920 – Robert Harron, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1922 – Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
- 1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician (b. 1890)
- 1930 – Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
- 1931 – John Thomson, Scottish football player (b. 1909)
- 1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
- 1932 – Paul Bern, German-American film director (b. 1889)
- 1934 – Sidney Myer, Russian-Australian businessman (b. 1878)
- 1936 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
- 1936 – Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
- 1942 – François de Labouchère, French aviator of World War II, compagnon de la Libération. (b. 1917)
- 1945 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1948 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
- 1953 – Richard Walther Darré, Nazi politician (b. 1895)
- 1954 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (b. 1860)
- 1955 – Haydn Bunton, Sr., Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
- 1965 – Thomas Johnston, Scottish-born politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 – Dezső Lauber, Hungarian athlete (b. 1879)
- 1970 – Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (b. 1942)
- 1972 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)
- 1973 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
- 1975 – Georg Ots, Estonian singer (b. 1920)
- 1977 – Marcel Thiry, Belgian writer and Walloon militant (b. 1897)
- 1979 – Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
- 1980 – Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
- 1982 – Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
- 1983 – Antonio Mairena, Spanish flamenco singer (b. 1909)
- 1984 – Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
- 1984 – Jane Roberts, American psychic medium, writer
- 1988 – Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Philip Baxter, Australian chemical engineer, university vice-chancellor (b. 1905)
- 1990 – Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, British colonial administrator (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1896)
- 1992 – Fritz Leiber, American author (b. 1910)
- 1993 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b.1914)
- 1994 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1921)
- 1994 – John Newman, assassinated Australian politician (b. 1946)
- 1997 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
- 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-born missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
- 1998 – Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 1998 – Verner Panton, Danish designer (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Alan Clark, British politician and diarist (b. 1928)
- 1999 – Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Bryce Mackasey, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Roy Fredericks, West Indian cricketer (b. 1942)
- 2000 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
- 2001 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2002 – David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-born singer (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General (b. 1917)
- 2007 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2007 – Thomas Hansen, Norwegian musician (b. 1976)
- 2007 – D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
- 2007 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek film director and a writer (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Evan Tanner American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
- 2010 – Hedley Beare, Australian educator and academic (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), Belgian artist (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Shoya Tomizawa Japanese MotoGP Racer (b. 1990)
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