March 9

March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
• 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
• 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
• 1230 – Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
• 1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
• 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
• 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1765 – After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
• 1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
• 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
• 1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
• 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
• 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
• 1896 – Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
• 1908 – Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
• 1910 – The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
• 1916 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
• 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
• 1944 – World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days.
• 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
• 1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
• 1945 – World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
• 1946 – Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
• 1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
• 1956 – Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
• 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
• 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
• 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
• 1976 – Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
• 1977 – The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
• 1989 – Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines files for bankruptcy.
• 1991 – Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade.
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
• 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
• 2015 – Two helicopters collided near Villa Castelli, Argentina killing 10 people.

Births

• 1213 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1271)
• 1285 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (d. 1318)
• 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (d. 1512)
• 1564 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (d. 1617)
• 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
• 1627 – John Bowne, English-American activist (d. 1695)
• 1695 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk and scholar (d. 1772)
• 1720 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (d. 1790)
• 1727 – Johann Gottlieb Preller, German cantor, composer, and surveyor (d. 1786)
• 1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)
• 1749 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
• 1753 – Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
• 1758 – Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)
• 1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
• 1806 – Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
• 1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
• 1815 – David Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)
• 1820 – Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
• 1824 – Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
• 1833 – Frederick A. Schroeder, German-American businessman and politician (d. 1899)
• 1839 – Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (d. 1908)
• 1847 – Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
• 1850 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor (d. 1925)
• 1856 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (d. 1928)
• 1856 – Tom Roberts, English-Australian painter (d. 1931)
• 1882 – Arthur Beecher Carles, American painter and academic (d. 1952)
• 1887 – Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1958)
• 1890 – Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)
• 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
• 1891 – José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
• 1892 – Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Frank Arnau, German journalist and author (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (d. 1948)
• 1902 – Will Geer, American actor and singer (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (d. 2002)
• 1905 – Gerard Helders, Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of Colonial Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1909 – Derk Bodde, American sinologist and historian (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (d. 2001)
• 1918 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American author and actor (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Cengiz Dağcı, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist and academic (d. 2008)
• 1920 – Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)
• 1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1921 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
• 1923 – James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
• 1923 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
• 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (d. 1990)
• 1929 – Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Guyana (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Taina Elg, Finnish-American actress and dancer
• 1931 – Thore Skogman, Swedish actor and singer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Sam Williams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and actor
• 1932 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Keely Smith, American actress and singer
• 1933 – Mel Lastman, Canadian businessman and politician, 62nd Mayor of Toronto
• 1933 – Lloyd Price, American singer-songwriter
• 1933 – David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic
• 1934 – Del Close, American actor, author, and educator (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1968)
• 1934 – Marlene Streit, Canadian-American golfer
• 1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress
• 1935 – Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc.
• 1936 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1936 – Marty Ingels, American actor (d. 2015)
• 1936 – Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
• 1937 – Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer and politician, 28th Premier of Quebec
• 1937 – Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1937 – Brian Redman, English race car driver
• 1938 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress
• 1938 – Tom Adams, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (d. 1976)
• 1942 – Pedro Bandeira, Brazilian children's author
• 1942 – John Cale, Welsh singer-songwriter, viola player, and producer (The Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music)
• 1942 – Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer (Paul Revere & the Raiders)
• 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Charles Gibson, American journalist
• 1943 – Trish Van Devere, American actress
• 1944 – Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
• 1944 – Paola Quattrini, Italian actress
• 1945 – Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter and playwright (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Dennis Rader, American serial killer
• 1945 – Robin Trower, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
• 1946 – Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
• 1946 – Jim Cregan, English guitarist and songwriter (Blossom Toes, Streetwalkers, and Family)
• 1946 – Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1990)
• 1947 – Richard Adams, Filipino-American activist (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet
• 1948 – Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1948 – Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor
• 1948 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer (L.T.D.)
• 1948 – Chris Thompson, English singer and guitarist (Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Night)
• 1949 – Jaime Lyn Bauer, American actress
• 1949 – Neil Hamilton, Welsh lawyer and politician
• 1949 – Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
• 1950 – Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor
• 1950 – Danny Sullivan, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1951 – Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player, composer, and actor
• 1951 – Michael Kinsley, American journalist and actor
• 1951 – Helen Zille, South African journalist and politician, 7th Premier of the Western Cape
• 1952 – Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager
• 1954 – Bobby Sands, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1981)
• 1955 – Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver
• 1955 – Ornella Muti, Italian actress
• 1955 – Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician
• 1956 – Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
• 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1956 – David Willetts, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 1957 – Faith Daniels, American journalist and talk show host
• 1957 – Mark Mancina, American guitarist and composer
• 1957 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
• 1958 – Martin Fry, English singer-songwriter (ABC and Vice Versa)
• 1958 – Jack Kenny, American screenwriter and producer
• 1958 – Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 – Tom Amandes, American actor and director
• 1959 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist
• 1959 – Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959 – Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Finn Carter, American actress and photographer
• 1960 – Elsa Cayat, French columnist and psychoanalyst (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
• 1961 – Mike Leach, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Rick Steiner, American wrestler
• 1961 – Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
• 1962 – Jan Furtok, Polish footballer and manager
• 1962 – Pete Wishart, Scottish singer and politician (Big Country and Runrig)
• 1963 – Ivan Henjak, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1963 – Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1963 – David Pogue, American journalist
• 1963 – Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress and dancer
• 1964 – Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1964 – Valérie Lemercier, French actress, singer, director
• 1964 – Aleksandr Puštov, Russian-Estonian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
• 1965 – Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
• 1965 – Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1966 – Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter (Fugazi)
• 1966 – Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
• 1966 – Michael Patrick MacDonald, Irish-American author and activist
• 1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
• 1968 – Brian Heidik, American reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: Thailand
• 1968 – Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative, Danzig, A Pale Horse Named Death, and Seventh Void)
• 1969 – Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
• 1969 – Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist
• 1969 – Stefie Shock, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Naveen Jindal, Indian politician
• 1970 – Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach
• 1970 – Shannon Leto, American drummer and actor (Thirty Seconds to Mars and The Wondergirls)
• 1970 – Stephen Phillips, English lawyer and politician
• 1970 – David Guido Pietroni, Italian director and producer
• 1971 – C-Murder, American rapper and actor
• 1971 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor and singer
• 1971 – Diego Torres, Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1972 – Spencer Howson, Australian radio host
• 1972 – Jean Louisa Kelly, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Kerr Smith, American actor
• 1973 – Aaron Boone, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Liam Griffin, English racing driver and businessman
• 1975 – Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1975 – Didiayer Snyder, Australian model, author, and interior designer
• 1975 – Chaske Spencer, American actor
• 1975 – Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian footballer
• 1976 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinian model and actress
• 1976 – Ben Mulroney, Canadian journalist and game show host
• 1977 – Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – MickDeth, American bass player (Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, and Clear) (d. 2013)
• 1978 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
• 1979 – Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk, Belarusian long jumper (d. 2013)
• 1979 – Melina Perez, American wrestler and actress
• 1979 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
• 1980 – Chingy, American rapper and actor
• 1980 – Trent Croad, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1981 – Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 – Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1982 – Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
• 1983 – Bobby Campo, American actor
• 1983 – Clint Dempsey, American soccer player
• 1983 – Ioannis Masmanidis, German footballer
• 1983 – Maite Perroni, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress (RBD)
• 1983 – Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 – Brian Cusworth, American basketball player
• 1984 – Joe Gilgun, English actor
• 1984 – Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
• 1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier
• 1985 – Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
• 1985 – Rachel Nabors, American illustrator
• 1985 – Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
• 1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Jana Jordan, American porn actress
• 1987 – Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
• 1988 – Alodia Gosiengfiao, Filipino model, actress, and singer
• 1989 – Artem Borodulin, Russian figure skater
• 1989 – Yudai Chiba, Japanese actor
• 1989 – Kim Tae-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation Girls' Generation-TTS, and SM the Ballad)
• 1990 – YG, American rapper
• 1990 – Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
• 1990 – Bilel Ifa, Tunisian footballer
• 1990 – Tatsuki Machida, Japanese figure skater
• 1990 – Aras Özbiliz, Turkish footballer
• 1991 – Domo Genesis, American rapper (Odd Future)
• 1991 – Brenna O'Brien, Canadian actress
• 1992 – Dianne Necio, Filipino model, Binibining Pilipinas-International 2011
• 1993 – Larnell Cole, English footballer
• 1994 – Angeli Gonzales, Filipino actress
• 1995 – Hikaru Ohsawa, Japanese actress

Deaths

• 1202 – Sverre of Norway (b. 1145)
• 1422 – Jan Želivský, Czech priest (b. 1380)
• 1440 – Frances of Rome, Italian nun and saint (b. 1384)
• 1566 – David Rizzio, Italian-Scottish courtier and politician (b. 1533)
• 1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1606)
• 1649 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1590)
• 1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
• 1709 – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b. 1638)
• 1808 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed the Piercefield House and St James' Church (b. 1739)
• 1810 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
• 1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b.1743)
• 1851 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (b. 1777)
• 1888 – William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
• 1895 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
• 1897 – Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Afghan ideologist and activist (b. 1838)
• 1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1825)
• 1905 – Nikolai Anderson, Estonian philologist and linguist (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1925 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1926 – Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
• 1937 – Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
• 1943 – Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1948 – Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and scholar (b. 1867)
• 1954 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer and academic (b. 1912)
• 1954 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1960 – Jack Beattie, Northern Irish educator and politician (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1966 – Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1969 – Abdul Munim Riad Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1975 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1888)
• 1983 – Faye Emerson, American-Spanish actress and singer (b. 1917)
• 1983 – Rex Marshall, American actor and radio host (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Harry Catterick, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 – Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 – Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Bob Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
• 1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Charles Bukowski, German-American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Maurice Purtill, American drummer (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1916)
• 1994 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
• 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• 1996 – Harold Baigent, New Zealand actor (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
• 1997 – Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1997 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (Junior M.A.F.I.A.) (b. 1972)
• 1999 – Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, 2nd President of Nauru (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Gerald Deskin, American psychologist and therapist (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Rust Epique, American guitarist and painter (Crazy Town and pre)Thing) (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor and author (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Chris LeDoux, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Kurt Lotz, German businessman (b. 1912)
• 2005 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Jeanette Schmid, Czech-Austrian whistler (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian computer programmer, co-founded Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
• 2006 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Laura Stoica, Romanian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Boston, RTZ, and Beatlejuice) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910)
• 2011 – David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Peter Bergman, American comedian and actor (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Herb Carnegie, Canadian ice hockey player and golfer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Willye Dennis, American librarian and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Joy Mukherjee, Indian actor and director (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jose Tomas Sanchez, Filipino cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Aasia, Indian actress (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Tengiz Amirejibi, Georgian pianist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Mohammed Fahim, Afghan field marshal and politician, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. 1924)
• 2014 – William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Glenn McDuffie, American sailor (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Carlos Moreno, Argentinian actor and director (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (b. 1970)
• 2015 – David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (b. 1940)
• 2015 – Wayne Kemp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2015 – James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, British soldier and peer; Northern Irish politician (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
• 2015 – Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Catherine of Bologna
  • Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
  • Frances of Rome
  • Gregory of Nyssa
  • Pacian
  • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria
• Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada