August 29 is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 124 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date : August 10, 708).
1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope.
1315 – Battle of Montecatini : The army of the Republic of Pisa , commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola , wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered.
1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer ): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV .
1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal .
1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade).
1526 – Battle of Mohács : The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia .
1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda , the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom .
1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss .
1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony , beginning the Seven Years' War .
1758 – The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1778 – American Revolutionary War : British and American forces battle indecisively at the Battle of Rhode Island .
1786 – Shays's Rebellion , an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1807 – British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesly defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge .
1825 – Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil .
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction .
1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War .
1861 – American Civil War : United States Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina .
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway .
1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date : July 14, 1871).
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle , the Reitwagen .
1895 – Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield .
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1903 – The Slava , the last of the five Borodino -class battleships , is launched.
1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 , also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1911 – Ishi , considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California .
1914 – Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne .
1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4 , the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act .
1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive .
1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1941 – Tallinn , the capital of Estonia , is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union .
1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy ; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 – Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis .
1946 – USS Nevada is decommissioned.
1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project : The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb , known as First Lightning or Joe 1 , at Semipalatinsk , Kazakhstan .
1950 – Korean War : British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado .
1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth , landing in the Atlantic ocean.
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco .
1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser .
1970 – Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War , East Los Angeles, California . Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar .
1979 – Jeffrey R. MacDonald is convicted of the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two daughters.
1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium , atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt , Germany.
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party .
1991 – Libero Grassi , an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 , a Tupolev Tu-154 , crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen , killing all 141 aboard.
1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre , Algeria .
2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim , the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq , is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf .
2004 – Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers' championship (and 7th overall) at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix by finishing second to Kimi Räikkönen to beat the 47-year-old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio .
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle , killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident : Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base .
2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine , located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province , China.
1434 – Janus Pannonius , Hungarian bishop and poet (d. 1472)
1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (d. 1683)
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1701)
1632 – John Locke , English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
1724 – Giovanni Battista Casti , Italian poet and author (d. 1803)
1725 – Charles Townshend , English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1767)
1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (d. 1797)
1756 – Jan Śniadecki , Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
1756 – Count Heinrich von Bellegarde , Austrian general and politician (d. 1845)
1773 – Aimé Bonpland , French botanist and explorer (d. 1850)
1777 – Hyacinth , Russian religious leader, founded Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , French painter and illustrator (d. 1867)
1792 – Charles Grandison Finney , American minister and author (d. 1875)
1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice , English priest, theologian, and author (d. 1872)
1809 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. , American physician and author (d. 1894)
1810 – Juan Bautista Alberdi , Argentinian theorist and diplomat (d. 1884)
1811 – Henry Bergh , American activist, founded the ASPCA (d. 1888)
1842 – Alfred Shaw , English cricketer, rugby player, and umpire (d. 1907)
1843 – David B. Hill , American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 – Edward Carpenter , English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)
1857 – Sandford Schultz , English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 – Andrew Fisher , Scottish-Australian politician and diplomat, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1871 – Albert François Lebrun , French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (d. 1950)
1875 – Leonardo De Lorenzo , Italian flute player and educator (d. 1962)
1876 – Charles F. Kettering , American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics (d. 1958)
1876 – Kim Koo , South Korean politician, 6th President of The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1880 – Marie-Louise Meilleur , Canadian super-centenarian (d. 1998)
1883 – Muriel George , English actress and singer (d. 1965)
1887 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta , Indian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 1978)
1888 – Salme Dutt , Estonian-English politician (d. 1964)
1891 – Marquis James , American journalist and author (d. 1955)
1898 – Preston Sturges , American director and producer (d. 1959)
1901 – Aurèle Joliat , Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1986)
1904 – Werner Forssmann , German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1905 – Dhyan Chand , Indian field hockey player (d. 1979)
1905 – Arndt Pekurinen , Finnish activist (d. 1941)
1910 – Vivien Thomas , American surgeon and academic (d. 1985)
1912 – Sohn Kee-chung , South Korean runner (d. 2002)
1912 – Barry Sullivan , American actor and director (d. 1994)
1912 – Wolfgang Suschitzky , Austrian-English cinematographer and photographer
1913 – Len Butterfield , New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 – Ingrid Bergman , Swedish-English actress and singer (d. 1982)
1915 – Endel Laas , Estonian scientist and academic (d. 2009)
1915 – Nathan Pritikin , American nutritionist and author (d. 1985)
1916 – Luther Davis , American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1916 – George Montgomery , American actor, stuntman, director, and producer (d. 2000)
1917 – Isabel Sanford , American actress (d. 2004)
1920 – Charlie Parker , American saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
1920 – Herb Simpson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1922 – Richard Blackwell , American actor, fashion designer, and critic (d. 2008)
1922 – John Edward Williams , American author and educator (d. 1994)
1923 – Richard Attenborough , English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1923 – Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley , English businessman (d. 2006)
1924 – María Dolores Pradera , Spanish singer and actress
1924 – Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (d. 1963)
1926 – Helene Ahrweiler , Greek historian and academic
1926 – Betty Lynn , American actress
1927 – Jimmy C. Newman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1928 – Charles Gray , English actor and singer (d. 2000)
1928 – Herbert Meier , Swiss author and translator
1928 – Dick O'Neill , American actor (d. 1998)
1929 – Thom Gunn , English-American poet and academic (d. 2004)
1930 – Jacques Bouchard , Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1930 – Carlos Loyzaga , Filipino basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1931 – Evelyn Robert de Rothschild , English banker and businessman
1931 – Stelios Kazantzidis , Greek singer and guitarist (d. 2001)
1931 – Lise Payette , Canadian journalist and politician
1932 – Lakis Petropoulos , Greek footballer and manager (d. 1996)
1933 – Sorel Etrog , Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (d. 2014)
1933 – Arnold Koller , Swiss politician
1934 – Dimitris Papamichael , Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
1935 – Hugo Brandt Corstius , Dutch linguist and author (d. 2014)
1935 – William Friedkin , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1935 – László Garai , Hungarian psychologist and scholar
1936 – John McCain , American captain and politician
1937 – Carol Doda , American stripper and actress (d. 2015)
1937 – James Florio , American commander, lawyer, and politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey
1938 – Elliott Gould , American actor and producer
1938 – Angela Huth , English journalist and author
1938 – Christian Müller , German footballer and manager
1938 – Robert Rubin , American lawyer and politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 – Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek , Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter
1939 – Joel Schumacher , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1940 – James Brady , American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary (d. 2014)
1940 – Gary Gabelich , American race car driver (d. 1984)
1940 – Wim Ruska , Dutch wrestler and martial artist (d. 2015)
1941 – Robin Leach , English journalist and television host
1942 – James Glennon , American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 – Gottfried John , German actor (d. 2014)
1943 – Mohamed Amin , Kenyan photographer and journalist (d. 1996)
1943 – Dick Halligan , American pianist and composer (Blood, Sweat & Tears )
1943 – Arthur B. McDonald , Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Chris Copping , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Procol Harum )
1945 – Wyomia Tyus , American runner
1945 – Harry S. Morgan , German porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
1946 – Bob Beamon , American long jumper
1946 – Francine D. Blau , American economist and academic
1946 – Demetris Christofias , Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus
1946 – Giorgio Orsoni , Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
1947 – Temple Grandin , American ethologist, academic, and author
1947 – James Hunt , English race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1949 – Stan Hansen , American wrestler and actor
1950 – Michael , American bishop
1950 – Doug DeCinces , American baseball player
1950 – Frank Henenlotter , American director and screenwriter
1950 – Dave Reichert , American soldier and politician
1951 – Geoff Whitehorn , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (IF , Crawler , and Procol Harum )
1952 – Karen Hesse , American author and poet
1952 – Dave Malone , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators )
1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh , American actress
1953 – David Boaz American businessman and author
1953 – Doña Croll , Jamaican-English actress
1953 – James Quesada , Nicaraguan-American anthropologist and academic
1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell , American journalist, author, and academic
1955 – Diamanda Galás , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1955 – Frank Hoste , Belgian cyclist
1955 – Jack Lew , American lawyer and politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff
1956 – GG Allin , American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers ) (d. 1993)
1956 – Mark Morris , American dancer and choreographer
1956 – Charalambos Xanthopoulos , Greek footballer
1956 – Steve Yarbrough , American novelist and short story writer
1957 – Jerry D. Bailey , American jockey and sportscaster
1958 – Lenny Henry , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1958 – Michael Jackson , American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5 ) (d. 2009)
1959 – Rebecca De Mornay , American actress, singer, and producer
1959 – Ramón Díaz , Argentinian footballer and manager
1959 – Ray Elgaard , Canadian football player
1959 – Chris Hadfield , Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna , Indian actor and producer
1959 – Eddi Reader , Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fairground Attraction )
1959 – Timothy Shriver , American businessman and activist
1959 – Stephen Wolfram , English-American physicist and mathematician
1960 – Todd English , American chef and author
1960 – Tony MacAlpine , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Planet X , CAB , Ring of Fire , and Seven the Hardway )
1961 – Carsten Fischer , German field hockey player
1961 – Rodney McCray , American basketball player
1962 – Carl Banks , American football player and sportscaster
1962 – Ian James Corlett , Canadian voice actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Hiroki Kikuta , Japanese game designer and composer
1962 – Lycia Naff , American actress, dancer, and journalist
1962 – Simon Thurley , English historian and academic
1963 – Elizabeth Fraser , Scottish singer-songwriter (Cocteau Twins )
1964 – Zisis Tsekos , Greek footballer
1965 – Jeremy Applegate , American actor (d. 2000)
1965 – Will Perdue , American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 – Dina Spybey , American actress
1966 – Jörn Großkopf , German footballer and manager
1967 – Anton Newcombe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Brian Jonestown Massacre )
1968 – Meshell Ndegeocello , German-American singer-songwriter
1971 – Henry Blanco , Venezuelan baseball player and coach
1971 – Alex Griffin , English bass player (Ned's Atomic Dustbin )
1971 – Carla Gugino , American actress and producer
1972 – Amanda Marshall , Canadian singer-songwriter
1972 – Bae Yong-joon , South Korean actor
1973 – Vincent Cavanagh , English singer and guitarist (Anathema )
1973 – Olivier Jacque , French motorcycle racer
1973 – Adam Sessler , American television host and producer
1973 – Abdo Hakim , Lebanese actor and voice actor.
1974 – Kumi Tanioka , Japanese keyboard player and composer
1975 – Dante Basco , American actor and producer
1975 – Juan Diego Botto , Argentinian-Spanish actor
1975 – Kyle Cook , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Matchbox 20 and The New Left )
1976 – Stephen Carr , Irish footballer
1976 – Phil Harvey , English businessman
1976 – Kevin Kaesviharn , American football player
1976 – Georgios Kalaitzis , Greek basketball player
1976 – Pablo Mastroeni , Argentinian-American soccer player and manager
1976 – Jon Dahl Tomasson , Danish footballer and manager
1977 – Cayetano , Greek DJ and producer
1977 – Devean George , American basketball player
1977 – John Hensley , American actor
1977 – John Patrick O'Brien , American soccer player
1977 – Roy Oswalt , American baseball player
1977 – Charlie Pickering , Australian comedian and radio host
1977 – Aaron Rowand , American baseball player and sportscaster
1978 – Volkan Arslan , German-Turkish footballer
1978 – Celestine Babayaro , Nigerian footballer
1979 – Stijn Devolder , Belgian cyclist
1979 – Kristjan Rahnu , Estonian decathlete
1979 – Ryan Shealy , American baseball player
1980 – David Desrosiers , Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Simple Plan and Reset )
1980 – William Levy , Cuban-American model and actor
1980 – Mohammad Sheikh , Kenyan cricketer
1980 – Chris Simms , American football player
1980 – Nicholas Tse , Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
1980 – David West , American basketball player
1981 – Geneviève Jeanson , Canadian cyclist
1981 – Dennis Oh , American-South Korean model and actor
1981 – Jay Ryan , New Zealand-Australian actor and producer
1982 – Ruhila Adatia-Sood , Kenyan journalist and radio host (d. 2013)
1982 – Carlos Delfino , Argentinian-Italian basketball player
1982 – Vincent Enyeama , Nigerian footballer
1983 – Antti Niemi , Finnish ice hockey player
1984 – Alexander Hug , German rugby player
1985 – Achilles Liarmakopoulos , Greek trombonist (Canadian Brass )
1985 – Jeffrey Licon , American actor
1985 – Marc Rzepczynski , American baseball player
1985 – Héctor Sanabria , Argentinian footballer (d. 2013)
1986 – Joem Bascon , Filipino actor
1985 – Lauren Collins , Canadian actress
1986 – Hajime Isayama , Japanese illustrator, created Attack on Titan
1986 – Phakin Khamwilaisak , Thai actor and singer
1986 – Lea Michele , American actress and singer
1986 – Patrick Delehanty , American guitar player of Joie De Vivre
1987 – Elliot Benyon , English footballer
1987 – Tony Kane , Irish footballer
1989 – Aleksandr Bebikh , Russian footballer
1989 – Karol Castillo , Peruvian model, Miss Perú Universo 2008 (d. 2013)
1990 – Nicole Gale Anderson , American actress
1990 – Rizzini Alexis Gomez , Filipino model (d. 2015)
1990 – Jakub Kosecki , Polish footballer
1990 – Patrick van Aanholt , Dutch footballer
1990 – Julia Vlassov , American figure skater
1991 – Néstor Araujo , Mexican footballer
1991 – Anikó Kovacsics , Hungarian handball player
1991 – Deshaun Thomas , American basketball player
1992 – Mallu Magalhães , Brazilian singer-songwriter (Banda do Mar )
1992 – Noah Syndergaard , American baseball player
1993 – Lucas Cruikshank , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1993 – Liam Payne , English singer, songwriter, producer (One Direction )
1994 – Courtney Stodden , American model and singer
1995 – Aria Clemente , Filipino actress and singer
886 – Basil I , Byzantine emperor (b. 811)
979 – Abu Taghlib , Hamdanid ruler
1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 – Eystein I of Norway (b. 1088)
1315 – Peter Tempesta (b. 1261)
1315 – Charles of Taranto (b. 1296)
1395 – Albert III, Duke of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1526 – Louis II of Hungary (b. 1506)
1526 – Pál Tomori Hungarian archbishop and soldier (b. 1475)
1533 – Atahualpa , Sovereign emperor (b. 1497)
1542 – Cristóvão da Gama , Portuguese commander (b. 1516)
1543 – Maria of Jülich-Berg (b. 1491)
1657 – John Lilburne , English activist (b. 1614)
1712 – Gregory King , English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
1749 – Matthias Bel , Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
1769 – Edmond Hoyle , English author and educator (b. 1672)
1780 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot , French architect, co-designed The Panthéon (b. 1713)
1799 – Pope Pius VI (b. 1717)
1844 – Edmund Ignatius Rice , Irish missionary and educator, founded the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , English author and activist (b. 1778)
1866 – Tokugawa Iemochi , Japanese shogun (b. 1846)
1877 – Brigham Young , American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1801)
1889 – Stefan Dunjov , Bulgarian colonel (b. 1815)
1891 – Pierre Lallement , French businessman, invented the bicycle (b. 1843)
1892 – William Forbes Skene , Scottish historian and author (b. 1809)
1904 – Murad V , Ottoman sultan (b. 1840)
1917 – George Huntington Hartford , American businessman (b. 1833)
1930 – William Archibald Spooner , English priest and author (b. 1844)
1931 – David T. Abercrombie , American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
1935 – Astrid of Sweden (b. 1905)
1944 – Attik , Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
1945 – Constantin Tănase , Romanian actor and playwright (b. 1880)
1946 – Adolphus Busch III , American businessman (b. 1891)
1946 – John Steuart Curry , American painter and academic (b. 1897)
1947 – Manolete , Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 – Sydney Chapman , English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
1952 – Anton Piëch , Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
1958 – Marjorie Flack , American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
1966 – Sayyid Qutb , Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)
1968 – Ulysses S. Grant III , American general (b. 1881)
1971 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. , American murderer (b. 1904)
1972 – Lale Andersen , German singer-songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 – Éamon de Valera , Irish educator and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
1976 – Kazi Nazrul Islam , Bengali poet, flute player, and philosopher (b. 1899)
1976 – Jimmy Reed , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
1977 – Jean Hagen , American actress and singer (b. 1923)
1977 – Brian McGuire , Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
1979 – Gertrude Chandler Warner , American author and educator (b. 1890)
1981 – Lowell Thomas , American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1982 – Ingrid Bergman , Swedish-English actress and singer (b. 1915)
1982 – Lehman Engel , American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1983 – Simon Oakland , American actor (b. 1915)
1984 – Pina Menichelli , Italian actress (b. 1890)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers , Chilean-American actress and singer (b. 1918)
1987 – Archie Campbell , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
1987 – Lee Marvin , American actor and singer (b. 1924)
1987 – Naji al-Ali , Palestinian cartoonist (b. 1938)
1989 – Peter Scott , English explorer and painter (b. 1909)
1990 – Manly Palmer Hall , Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
1991 – Libero Grassi , Italian businessman (b. 1924)
1992 – Félix Guattari , French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
1992 – Teddy Turner , English actor (b. 1917)
1995 – Frank Perry , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2000 – Shelagh Fraser , English actress (b. 1922)
2000 – Willie Maddren , English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
2000 – Conrad Marca-Relli , American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
2001 – Graeme Strachan , Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks ) (b. 1952)
2001 – Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2002 – Lance Macklin , English race car driver (b. 1919)
2002 – Alan MacNaughtan , Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 – Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim , Iraqi politician (b. 1939)
2003 – Michel Constantin , French actor (b. 1924)
2003 – Patrick Procktor , English painter and academic (b. 1936)
2004 – Hans Vonk , Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 – James Muir Cameron Fletcher , New Zealand businessman (b. 1914)
2007 – Richard Jewell , American police officer (b. 1962)
2007 – Pierre Messmer , French civil servant and politician, 154th Prime Minister of France (b. 1916)
2007 – Alfred Peet , Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2008 – Geoffrey Perkins , English actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
2008 – Michael Schoenberg , American geophysicist and theorist (b. 1939)
2011 – David "Honeyboy" Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
2011 – Junpei Takiguchi , Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
2012 – Ruth Goldbloom , Canadian academic and philanthropist, co-founded Pier 21 (b. 1923)
2012 – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke , English historian and author (b. 1953)
2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi , Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
2012 – Anne McKnight , American soprano (b. 1924)
2012 – Les Moss , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1925)
2012 – Sergei Ovchinnikov , Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1969)
2013 – Joan L. Krajewski , American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
2013 – Darren Manzella , American sergeant and activist (b. 1977)
2013 – Medardo Joseph Mazombwe , Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
2013 – Cliff Morgan , Welsh rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1930)
2013 – Bruce C. Murray , American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931)
2014 – David Bala , Singaporean comedian and actor (b. 1947)
2014 – Brasse Brännström , Swedish actor and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2014 – Octavio Brunetti , Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975)
2014 – Ryūko Seihō , Japanese sumo wrestler and actor (b. 1941)
2014 – Björn Waldegård , Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
2015 – Wayne Dyer , American author and educator (b. 1940)
2015 – Graham Leggat , Scottish-Canadian footballer and manager (b. 1934)
2015 – Ron Searle , English-Canadian soldier, publisher, and politician, 4th Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1919)
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