Bairnsdale Conservative: Mon May 20th Todays News

Happy birthday and many happy returns Diane Ta. Today is really remarkable. It is Remembrance day in Cambodia. The first Council of Nicaea met in 325 and made a canon law before the invention of canons. They knew how to make laws back then. We've forgotten now, as can be seen by online gambling. A lot for you to live up to, but you were born to do it.
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May 20: Day of Remembrance in Cambodia; National Day in Cameroon (1972);Victoria Day in Canada (2013); Independence Day in East Timor (2002);National Awakening Day in Indonesia (1908)

325 – The First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, was formally opened in present-day Iznik, Turkey.
685 – The Picts defeated the Northumbrians near Dunnichen, severely weakening the latter's power in northern Great Britain.
1875 – Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention which set up an institute for the purpose of coordinating international metrology and for coordinating the development of the metric system.
1927 – By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud (pictured) over Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become Saudi Arabia.
1983 – A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnierpublished their discovery of HIV, although they did not know yet if it causedAIDS.

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Events [edit]

325 – The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.
491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
526 – An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1521 – Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1775 – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence signed in Charlotte, North Carolina
1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
1882 – The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
1884 – Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation.
1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1927 – Treaty of Jedda: the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.
1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1956 – In Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720-040B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 121 of the 127 passengers and crew.
1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War
1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1983 – The Church Street bombing in the South African capital Pretoria. The bombing killed 19 and wounded 217.
1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the formercolonizer of East Timor until 1976).

Births [edit]

1315 – Bonne of Luxembourg (d. 1349)
1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal (d. 1547)
1554 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1593 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1663 – William Bradford, English printer (d. 1752)
1664 – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1706 – Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (d. 1777)
1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1770)
1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, English statesman (d. 1805)
1759 – William Thornton, West Indian-born architect (d. 1828)
1768 – Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1849)
1769 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
1772 – Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor, developed Congreve rockets (d. 1828)
1776 – Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer (d. 1862)
1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1806 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (d. 1873)
1818 – William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1881)
1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1912)
1824 – Cadmus M. Wilcox, American general (d. 1890)
1830 – Hector Malot, French writer (d. 1907)
1838 – Jules Méline, French statesman (d. 1925)
1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)
1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1875 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (d. 1953)
1882 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1883 – Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1883 – Johnny Arthur, American actor (d. 1951)
1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish founder of Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951)
1889 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (d. 1978)
1894 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1895 – R. J. Mitchell, English aircraft designer, designed Supermarine Spitfire (d. 1937)
1897 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish author, economist, and anarchist (d. 1983)
1899 – Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1899 – John Marshall Harlan II, American jurist (d. 1971)
1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (d. 1981)
1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (d. 1989)
1908 – Louis Daquin, French director (d. 1980)
1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
1908 – Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist (d. 1993)
1911 – Gardner Fox, American writer (d. 1986)
1911 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1913 – Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian football player (d.1996)
1913 – William Reddington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
1914 – Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
1914 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
1915 – Peter Copley, English actor (d. 2008)
1916 – Owen Chadwick, British historian
1916 – Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
1916 – Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian pilot (d. 2001)
1917 – Guy Favreau, French-Canadian lawyer (d. 1967)
1917 – Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic politician (d. 2005)
1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot (d. 1983)
1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
1920 – John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant, recipient of the Victoria Cross
1920 – Betty Driver, English singer, actress, and author (d. 2011)
1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1924 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)
1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress (d. 2011)
1925 – Chester Ludgin, American baritone (d. 2003)
1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Soviet engineer and aircraft designer (d. 2001)
1926 – George Hurst, Scottish conductor (d. 2012)
1926 – John Lucarotti, English-Canadian author (d. 1994)
1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
1927 – Bud Grant, American football coach
1927 – Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal
1927 – David Hedison, American actor
1929 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier d. 1973)
1929 – Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician
1930 – Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1931 – Paul R. Evans, American furniture designer and sculptor (d. 1987)
1932 – Bob Florence, American pianist, composer, and arranger (d. 2008)
1933 – Constance Towers, American actress
1935 – José Mujica, Uruguayan politician, 40th President of Uruguay
1935 – Mickey Rose, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
1938 – Marinella, Greek singer and actress
1940 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1969)
1940 – Stan Mikita, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
1940 – Michel Vastel, French-Canadian journalist, columnist, and author (d. 2008)
1941 – Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician, Senior Minister
1941 – John Strasberg, American actor
1941 – Manuel Isaias Lopez, Mexican psychiatrist
1942 – Carlos Hathcock, American Marine Corps sniper (d. 1999)
1942 – Raymond Chrétien, Canadian ambassador
1942 – Jill Jackson, American singer (Paul & Paula)
1943 – Albano Carrisi, Italian singer, actor, and winemaker (Al Bano and Romina Power)
1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (The Grease Band)
1944 – Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founded Red Bull GmbH
1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian politician
1946 – Cher, American singer, actress, producer, and director (Sonny & Cher)
1946 – Robert Chua, Hong Kong broadcaster
1946 – Dave Despain, American journalist
1946 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1947 – Greg Dyke, English journalist and broadcaster
1947 – John Corapi, American priest
1949 – Robert Morin, French-Canadian director and screenwriter
1949 – Mary Pope Osborne, American children's author
1949 – Dave Thomas, Canadian comedian and actor
1950 – Andy Johns, English-American record producer (d. 2013)
1950 – Yvon Lambert, Canadian ice hockey player
1950 – Reinaldo Merlo, Argentinian footballer
1951 – Thomas Akers, American astronaut
1951 – Mike Crapo, American politician
1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer
1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian politician
1953 – Norbert Siegmann, German footballer
1954 – Guy Hoffman, American singer, drummer, and composer (Violent Femmes, Oil Tasters, and BoDeans)
1954 – David Paterson, American politician
1954 – Cindy McCain, American businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of John McCain
1954 – Robert Van de Walle, Belgian judoka
1955 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer
1956 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author
1956 – Dean Butler, American actor
1956 – William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1956 – Douglas Preston, American author
1956 – Marlene Zuk, American biologist
1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan
1958 – Ron Reagan, American radio host, son of Ronald Reagan
1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (The Go-Go's and Frosted)
1959 – Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Cowsills and Continental Drifters)
1959 – Daniel Darc, French singer-songwriter (Taxi Girl) (d. 2013)
1959 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer-songwriter and musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (d. 1997)
1959 – Bronson Pinchot, American actor
1960 – John Billingsley, American actor
1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor
1961 – Clive Allen, English footballer
1962 – Mike Jeffries, American soccer player and coach
1963 – David Wells, American baseball player
1964 – Kōichirō Gemba, Japanese politician
1964 – Edin Osmanović, Slovenian football manager
1965 – Ted Allen, American chef and author
1965 – Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player
1966 – Dan Abrams, American reporter
1966 – Mindy Cohn, American actress
1967 – Gabriele Muccino, Italian director
1967 – Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
1967 – Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-Pakistani terrorist
1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor
1968 – Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player
1969 – Brian Girard James, American wrestler, agent, and producer
1970 – Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
1970 – Louis Theroux, English broadcaster
1971 – Šárka Kašpárková, Czech athlete
1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
1972 – Tina Hobley, English actress
1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor (The Conglomerate and Leaders of the New School)
1973 – Elsa Lunghini, French singer-songwriter and actress
1975 – Pascal Denis, Canadian figure skater
1975 – Isaac Gálvez, Spanish cyclist (d. 2006)
1975 – Juan Minujín, Argentine actor
1975 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
1975 – Andrew Sega, American musician and composer (Iris, Stromkern, and Five Musicians)
1975 – Mark Zupan, American rugby player and actor
1976 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1976 – Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Matt Czuchry, American actor
1977 – Angela Goethals, American actress
1977 – Chad Muska, American skateboarder
1977 – Leonardo Noeren Franco, Argentine footballer
1977 – Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 – Tiger Tyson, American porn actor
1978 – Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
1978 – Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech athlete
1978 – Nils Schumann, German athlete
1979 – Rick Edwards, English television host
1979 – Alessandro Hirata, Brazilian jurist
1979 – Jana Pallaske, German actress and singer (Spitting Off Tall Buildings)
1979 – Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician
1979 – Jayson Werth, American baseball player
1980 – Austin Kearns, American baseball player
1980 – Agnes Kittelsen, Norwegian actress
1980 – Kassim Osgood, American football player and agent
1980 – Cauã Reymond, Brazilian actor
1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
1981 – Sean Conlon, English singer and composer (Five)
1981 – Morgan Knabe, Canadian swimmer
1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
1981 – Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
1982 – Jack Anthony, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer
1982 – Candace Bailey, American actress
1982 – Sierra Boggess, American actress and singer
1982 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer
1982 – Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
1982 – Natalia Podolskaya, Russian singer
1982 – Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director
1983 – Daniel Belle, Australian singer
1983 – Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
1983 – Chad Connell, Canadian actor
1983 – Roger Huerta, American mixed martial artist
1983 – Michaela McManus, American actress
1983 – N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor
1983 – Manoj Manchu, Indian actor
1983 – Emma Williams, English actress
1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
1984 – Keith Grennan, American football player
1984 – Augusto Midana, Bissau-Guinean wrestler
1984 – Naturi Naughton, American singer, rapper, and actress (3LW)
1984 – Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Kenny Vasoli, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Starting Line and Person L)
1985 – Chris Froome, English cyclist
1985 – Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
1986 – Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
1986 – Robert Emms, English actor
1986 – Vitória Frate, Brazilian actress
1986 – Yon González, Spanish actor
1986 – Louisa Krause, American actress
1986 – Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer
1986 – Eilidh MacQueen, Scottish actress
1986 – Anthony Neely, Taiwanese-American singer and musician
1986 – Casey Parker, Panamanian porn actress and model
1986 – Jiřina Ptáčníková, Czech pole vaulter
1987 – Mike Havenaar, Dutch-Japanese footballer
1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn, Russian ice hockey player
1987 – Kristopher Van Varenberg, American actor
1987 – Julian Wright, American basketball player
1988 – Nathaniel Brown, American actor and director
1988 – Comfort Fedoke, American dancer and actress
1988 – Carla Humphries, Filipino actress
1988 – Yusuf Kasal, Turkish footballer
1988 – Miyu Nagase, Japanese singer and guitarist (Zone)
1991 – Mara Lopez, Filipino actress
1992 – Cate Campbell, Australian swimmer
1992 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
1994 – Frida Sandén, Swedish singer
1995 – Brandon Zibaka, English footballer
1996 – Madeline Taylor, American actress

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Deaths [edit]

685 – Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
1285 – John II of Jerusalem (b. 1259)
1444 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian missionary and saint (b. 1380)
1503 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian banker and politician (b. 1463)
1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, discovered the Americas (b. 1451)
1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1622 – Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
1648 – Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
1677 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)
1713 – Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 – John Trevor, English statesman (b. 1637)
1722 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1782 – William Emerson, English mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1812 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1732)
1825 – Papaflessas, Greek priest and politician (b. 1788)
1834 – Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, French military officer (b. 1757)
1841 – Joseph Blanco White, English theologian (b. 1775)
1873 – George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1880 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (b. 1814)
1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
1909 – Ernest Hogan, American comedian and composer (b. 1859)
1917 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1917 – Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1925 – Joseph Howard, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b.1862)
1927 – Oscar Stribolt, Danish actor (b. 1872)
1931 – Ernest Noel, British businessman and MP (b. 1831)
1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish aviation pioneer and engineer (b. 1871)
1947 – Philipp Lenard, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1947 – Georgios Siantos, Greek politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1890)
1949 – Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1949 – Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens (b. 1891)
1956 – Max Beerbohm, English critic (b. 1872)
1956 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1881)
1961 – Josef Priller, German nazi military aviator (b. 1915)
1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1936)
1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
1975 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (b. 1903)
1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician (b. 1924)
1976 – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
1989 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1989 – Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
1992 – Roger Keith Coleman, American coal miner and convicted murder (b. 1958)
1996 – Jon Pertwee, English actor (b. 1919)
2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2000 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist and bandleader (b. 1920)
2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 – Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 – William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
2007 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
2009 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b.1924)
2009 – Lucy Gordon, English model and actress (b. 1980)
2011 – "Macho Man" Randy Savage, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
2012 – Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan terrorist, conducted the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing (b. 1952)
2012 – Bob Bethell, American politician (b. 1942)
2012 – Geoffrey Evans, Irish serial killer (b. 1943)
2012 – Robin Gibb, English singer-songwriter and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2012 – Eugene Polley, American engineer, inventor of the first wireless remote control for television (b. 1915)
2012 – Andrew B. Steinberg, American lawyer, Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs (b. 1958)