June 2 is the 153rd day of the year (154th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 212 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
455 – Sack of Rome : Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1010 – The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr took place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Córdoba .
1098 – First Crusade : The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7 .
1615 – The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City , from Rouen , France.
1676 – Franco-Dutch War : France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo .
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts . Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10 .
1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion : At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan , Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse , then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 – Intolerable Acts : The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793 – French Revolution : François Hanriot , leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat , setting the stage for the Reign of Terror .
1805 – Napoleonic Wars : A Franco -Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock , an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France , from the British.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine .
1866 – Fenian raids : The Fenians are victorious over Canadian forces in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie .
1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House , becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph .
1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1910 – Charles Rolls , a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited , becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1941 – World War II : German paratroopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari .
1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic : In a referendum , Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic . After the referendum, King Umberto II of Italy is exiled.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II , who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth , the first major international event to be televised.
1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948 .
1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup , police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
1966 – Surveyor program : Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon , becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado 's gas chamber , in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June .
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois , Indiana , Kentucky , and Ohio , killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana , is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with six deaths.
1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady 's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
1997 – In Denver , Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City . He was executed four years later.
1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars . The European Space Agency 's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan .
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution .
2012 – An Allied Air cargo plane crashes into a minibus after overshooting the runway at Accra 's Kotoka International Airport in Ghana killing at least twelve people.
2014 – Telangana officially becomes the 29th state of India .
1423 – Ferdinand I of Naples (d. 1494)
1489 – Charles, Duke of Vendôme (d. 1537)
1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
1731 – Martha Washington , American wife of George Washington , 1st First Lady of the United States (d. 1802) (O.S. Calendar, otherwise her birthday is June 13th.)
1739 – Jabez Bowen , American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1815)
1740 – Marquis de Sade , French philosopher and politician (d. 1814)
1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro , Italian occultist and explorer (d. 1795)
1773 – John Randolph of Roanoke , American planter and politician, 8th United States Ambassador to Russia (d. 1833)
1774 – William Lawson , English-Australian explorer and politician (d. 1850)
1813 – Daniel Pollen , Irish-New Zealand politician, 9th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1896)
1823 – Gédéon Ouimet , Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (d. 1905)
1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
1838 – Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Oldenburg (d. 1900)
1840 – Thomas Hardy , English novelist and poet (d. 1928)
1857 – Edward Elgar , English composer and educator (d. 1934)
1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup , Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1861 – Concordia Selander , Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
1863 – Felix Weingartner , Croatian-Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1942)
1865 – George Lohmann , English cricketer (d. 1901)
1869 – Jack O'Connor , American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
1875 – Charles Stewart Mott , American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan (d. 1973)
1878 – Wallace Hartley , English violinist and bandleader (d. 1912)
1881 – Walter Egan , American golfer (d. 1971)
1886 – Hermila Galindo , Mexican feminist (d. 1954)
1887 – Gottlieb Hering , German SS officer (d. 1945)
1887 – Howard Johnson , American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 – Thurman Arnold , American lawyer and judge (d. 1969)
1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi , Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945)
1899 – Lotte Reiniger , German animator and director (d. 1981)
1899 – Edwin Way Teale , American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)
1904 – Frank Runacres , English painter and educator (d. 1974)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller , Romanian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1907 – Dorothy West , American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1907 – John Lehmann , English poet and publisher (d. 1987)
1910 – Hector Dyer , American sprinter (d. 1990)
1911 – Joe McCluskey , American runner (d. 2002)
1913 – Barbara Pym , English author (d. 1980)
1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz , German singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 1992)
1913 – Elsie Tu , English-Hong Kong educator and politician (d. 2015)
1915 – Walter Tetley , American voice actor (d. 1975)
1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi , Romanian spy (d. 1992)
1917 – Heinz Sielmann , German photographer and director (d. 2006)
1917 – Max Showalter , American actor, singer, and pianist (d. 2000)
1918 – Ruth Atkinson , Canadian-American illustrator (d. 1997)
1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham , American journalist and author (d. 2011)
1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro , American painter (d. 2005)
1920 – Frank G. Clement , American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
1920 – Yolande Donlan , American-English actress (d. 2014)
1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Polish-German author and critic (d. 2013)
1920 – Tex Schramm , American businessman (d. 2003)
1920 – Johnny Speight , English screenwriter and producer (d. 1998)
1921 – Betty Freeman , American photographer and philanthropist (d. 2009)
1921 – Ernie Royal , American trumpet player (The Tonight Show Band ) (d. 1983)
1921 – Sigmund Sternberg , Hungarian-English businessman and philanthropist
1921 – András József Szennay , Hungarian priest (d. 2012)
1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem , Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 – Charlie Sifford , American golfer (d. 2015)
1922 – Carmen Silvera , Canadian-English actress and singer (d. 2002)
1923 – Lloyd Shapley , American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1924 – June Callwood , Canadian journalist, author, and activist (d. 2007)
1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
1926 – Milo O'Shea , Irish-American actor (d. 2013)
1927 – W. Watts Biggers , American author, screenwriter, and animator (d. 2013)
1927 – Christopher Slade , English lawyer and judge
1928 – Erzsi Kovács , Hungarian singer (d. 2014)
1928 – Rafael A. Lecuona , Cuban-American gymnast and academic (d. 2014)
1929 – Norton Juster , American architect, author, and academic
1929 – Ken McGregor , Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
1930 – Pete Conrad , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1999)
1934 – Johnny Carter , American singer (The Flamingos and The Dells ) (d. 2009)
1935 – Carol Shields , American-Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2003)
1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis , Greek poet and educator
1936 – Volodymyr Holubnychy , Ukrainian race walker
1937 – Rosalyn Higgins , English lawyer and judge
1937 – Sally Kellerman , American actress
1937 – Jimmy Jones , American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
1937 – Robert Paul , Canadian figure skater and choreographer
1938 – Kevin Brownlow , English historian and author
1938 – Clifton Cushman , American hurdler and soldier (d. 1966)
1938 – Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld of Sweden
1938 – George William Penrose, Lord Penrose , Scottish lawyer and judge
1940 – Constantine II of Greece
1941 – Ünal Aysal , Turkish businessman
1941 – William Guest , American singer-songwriter and producer (Gladys Knight & the Pips ) (d. 2015)
1941 – Stacy Keach , American actor
1941 – Lou Nanne , Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1941 – Charlie Watts , English drummer, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones and Blues Incorporated )
1941 – Jeff Winkless , American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1943 – Ilaiyaraaja , Indian singer-songwriter and producer
1943 – Charles Haid , American actor and director
1943 – Crescenzio Sepe , Italian cardinal
1944 – Robert Elliott , American actor (d. 2004)
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch , American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1945 – Richard Long , English painter, sculptor, and photographer
1945 – Bonnie Newman , American businessman and politician
1946 – David Arculus , English businessman
1946 – Song Dae-kwan , South Korean singer
1946 – Lasse Hallström , Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Peter Sutcliffe , English serial killer
1946 – Tomomichi Nishimura , Japanese voice actor
1947 – Mark Elder , English conductor and director
1948 – Jerry Mathers , American child actor
1949 – Heather Couper , English astronomer and physicist
1949 – Frank Rich , American journalist and critic
1950 – Jonathan Evans , Welsh lawyer and politician
1950 – Joanna Gleason , Canadian actress and singer
1950 – Anne Phillips , English theorist and academic
1951 – Arnold Mühren , Dutch footballer and manager
1951 – Larry Robinson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Alexander Wylie, Lord Kinclaven , Scottish lawyer, judge, and educator
1952 – Gary Bettman , American commissioner of the National Hockey League
1953 – Vidar Johansen , Norwegian saxophonist
1953 – Craig Stadler , American golfer
1953 – Cornel West , American philosopher, author, and academic
1954 – Dennis Haysbert , American actor and producer
1955 – Dana Carvey , American comedian and actor
1955 – Nandan Nilekani , Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys
1955 – Mani Ratnam , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Michael Steele , American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Bangles and The Runaways )
1956 – Jan Lammers , Dutch race car driver
1957 – Mark Lawrenson , English footballer and manager
1958 – Lex Luger , American wrestler and football player
1959 – Rineke Dijkstra , Dutch photographer
1959 – Lydia Lunch , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1959 – Erwin Olaf , Dutch photographer
1960 – Olga Bondarenko , Russian runner
1960 – Tony Hadley , English singer-songwriter and actor (Spandau Ballet )
1960 – Kyle Petty , American race car driver and sportscaster
1961 – Dez Cadena , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Mark Plaatjes , South African-American runner and coach
1963 – Anand Abhyankar , Indian actor (d. 2012)
1964 – Caroline Link , German director and screenwriter
1965 – Russ Courtnall , Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer and journalist
1965 – Steve Waugh , Australian cricketer
1966 – Pedro Guerra , Spanish singer-songwriter
1966 – Petra van Staveren , Dutch swimmer
1967 – Remigija Nazarovienė , Lithuanian heptathlete and coach
1967 – Mike Stanton , American baseball player
1968 – Merril Bainbridge , Australian singer-songwriter
1968 – Beetlejuice , American comedian and actor
1968 – Andy Cohen , American television host and author
1968 – Jon Culshaw , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1969 – David Wheaton , American tennis player, radio host, and athor
1970 – B-Real , American rapper, producer, and actor (Cypress Hill and Kush )
1970 – Gökhan Kırdar , Turkish singer-songwriter
1971 – Kateřina Jacques , Czech translator and politician
1972 – Wayne Brady , American actor, comedian, game show host, and singer
1972 – Raúl Ibañez , American baseball player
1972 – Wentworth Miller , American actor and screenwriter
1973 – Marko Kristal , Estonian footballer and manager
1973 – Neifi Pérez , Dominican-American baseball player
1974 – Gata Kamsky , Russian-American chess player
1974 – Matt Serra , American mixed martial artist
1975 – Salvatore Scibona , American author
1976 – Earl Boykins , American basketball player
1976 – Martin Čech , Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira , Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley , English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Keane and Mt. Desolation )
1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
1977 – Teet Allas , Estonian footballer
1977 – A.J. Styles , American wrestler
1977 – Zachary Quinto , American actor and producer
1978 – Dominic Cooper , English actor
1978 – Nikki Cox , American actress
1979 – Morena Baccarin , Brazilian-American actress
1979 – Butterfly Boucher , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1979 – Natalia Rodríguez , Spanish runner
1979 – Taavi Varm , Estonian artist
1980 – Fabrizio Moretti , Brazilian-American drummer (The Strokes and Little Joy )
1980 – Bobby Simmons , American basketball player
1980 – Abby Wambach , American soccer player and coach
1980 – Tomasz Wróblewski , Polish bass player and songwriter (Behemoth , Vesania , and Black River )
1981 – Nikolay Davydenko , Russian tennis player
1981 – Velvet Sky , American wrestler and manager
1981 – Chin-hui Tsao , Taiwanese baseball player
1982 – Jewel Staite , Canadian actress
1983 – Chris Higgins , American ice hockey player
1983 – Leela James , American singer-songwriter
1983 – Brooke White , American singer-songwriter and actress (Jack and White )
1984 – Max Boyer , Canadian wrestler
1984 – Feleti Mateo , Australian-Tongan rugby league player
1985 – Miyuki Sawashiro , Japanese voice actress and singer
1986 – Todd Carney , Australian rugby league player
1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen , South African netball player
1987 – Yoann Huget , French rugby player
1987 – Matthew Koma , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Angelo Mathews , Sri Lankan cricketer
1987 – Sonakshi Sinha , Indian actress
1987 – Darin Zanyar , Swedish singer-songwriter
1988 – Sergio Agüero , Argentinian footballer
1988 – Patrik Berglund , Swedish ice hockey player
1989 – Steven Smith , Australian cricketer
1992 – Pajtim Kasami , Swiss footballer
1993 – Adam Taggart , Australian footballer
1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown , English actress
891 – Al-Muwaffaq , Abbasid general (b. 842)
910 – Richilde of Provence (b. 845)
1418 – Catherine of Lancaster (b. 1373)
1567 – Shane O'Neill , Irish king (b. 1530)
1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton , Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1525)
1693 – John Wildman , English soldier and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1621)
1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry , French author (b. 1607)
1716 – Ogata Kōrin , Japanese painter and educator (b. 1658)
1720 – Jeremiah Shepard , American minister (b. 1648)
1754 – Ebenezer Erskine , Scottish minister and theologian (b. 1680)
1761 – Jonas Alströmer , Swedish businessman (b. 1685)
1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves , French mathematician and academic (b. 1713)
1806 – William Tate , English painter (b. 1747)
1833 – Simon Byrne , Irish boxer (b. 1806)
1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre , English general (b. 1777)
1865 – Ner Middleswarth , American judge and politician (b. 1783)
1875 – Józef Kremer , Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1806)
1881 – Émile Littré , French lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1801)
1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian general and politician (b. 1807)
1901 – George Leslie Mackay , Canadian missionary and author (b. 1844)
1927 – Hüseyin Avni Lifij , Turkish painter (b. 1886)
1929 – Enrique Gorostieta , Mexican general (b. 1889)
1933 – Frank Jarvis , American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)
1937 – Louis Vierne , French organist and composer (b. 1870)
1941 – Lou Gehrig , American baseball player (b. 1903)
1942 – Bunny Berigan , American singer and trumpet player (The Dorsey Brothers ) (b. 1908)
1947 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton , English sailor and politician (b. 1867)
1948 – Viktor Brack , German physician (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Brandt , German SS officer (b. 1904)
1948 – Karl Gebhardt , German physician (b. 1897)
1948 – Waldemar Hoven , German physician (b. 1903)
1948 – Wolfram Sievers , German SS officer (b. 1905)
1951 – Ernst Pittschau , German actor (b. 1883)
1952 – Naum Torbov , Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall (b. 1880)
1956 – Jean Hersholt , Danish-American actor, singer, and director (b. 1886)
1961 – George S. Kaufman , American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1889)
1962 – Vita Sackville-West , English author and poet (b. 1892)
1967 – Benno Ohnesorg , German student and activist (b. 1940)
1968 – André Mathieu , Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1969 – Leo Gorcey , American actor and singer (b. 1917)
1970 – Orhan Kemal , Turkish author (b. 1914)
1970 – Albert Lamorisse , French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1970 – Bruce McLaren , New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (b. 1937)
1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1888)
1974 – Hiroshi Kazato , Japanese race car driver (b. 1949)
1976 – Kenneth Mason , English soldier and geographer (b. 1887)
1976 – Juan José Torres , Bolivian general and politician, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
1977 – Albert Bittlmayer , German footballer (b. 1952)
1977 – Stephen Boyd , Northern Irish-born American actor (b. 1931)
1978 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste , Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1895)
1979 – Jim Hutton , American actor (b. 1934)
1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry , Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
1983 – Stan Rogers , Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
1983 – Ray Stehr , Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1913)
1986 – Aurèle Joliat , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
1987 – Anthony de Mello , Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
1987 – Sammy Kaye , American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1910)
1987 – Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
1988 – Raj Kapoor , Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1924)
1989 – Ted a'Beckett , Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1907)
1990 – Jack Gilford , American actor and singer (b. 1908)
1990 – Rex Harrison , English-American actor and singer (b. 1908)
1991 – Ahmed Arif , Turkish poet and author (b. 1927)
1992 – Philip Dunne , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1993 – Johnny Mize , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1913)
1994 – David Stove , Australian philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1927)
1996 – John Alton , Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (b. 1901)
1996 – Ray Combs , American actor and game show host (b. 1956)
1996 – Leon Garfield , English author (b. 1921)
1996 – Amos Tversky , Israeli psychologist and academic (b. 1937)
1997 – Doc Cheatham , American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (McKinney's Cotton Pickers ) (b. 1905)
1998 – Junkyard Dog , American football player and wrestler (b. 1952)
1999 – Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican singer (Bob Marley and the Wailers ) (b. 1949)
2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov , Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (b. 1927)
2000 – John Schlee , American golfer (b. 1939)
2000 – Lepo Sumera , Estonian composer and educator (b. 1950)
2000 – Gerald James Whitrow , English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (b. 1912)
2001 – Imogene Coca , American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 – Hugo van Lawick , Dutch director and photographer (b. 1937)
2003 – Freddie Blassie , American wrestler and manager (b. 1918)
2004 – Loyd Sigmon , American radio host (b. 1909)
2005 – Lucien Cliche , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Gunder Gundersen , Norwegian skier (b. 1930)
2005 – Samir Kassir , Lebanese journalist and educator (b. 1950)
2005 – Melita Norwood , English civil servant and spy (b. 1912)
2006 – Keith Smith , English rugby player and coach (b. 1952)
2006 – Vince Welnick , American keyboard player (Grateful Dead , The Tubes , and Missing Man Formation ) (b. 1951)
2007 – Kentarō Haneda , Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1949)
2007 – Huang Ju , Chinese engineer and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1938)
2008 – Bo Diddley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
2008 – Mel Ferrer , American actor (b. 1917)
2008 – Cevher Özden , Turkish banker and businessman (b. 1933)
2009 – David Eddings , American author (b. 1931)
2011 – Ray Bryant , American pianist and composer (b. 1931)
2011 – Willem Duys , Dutch television host and producer (b. 1928)
2012 – Oliver , Congolese chimpanzee (b. 1958)
2012 – Avraham Botzer , Polish-Israeli commander (b. 1929)
2012 – Adolfo Calero , Nicaraguan businessman (b. 1931)
2012 – Richard Dawson , English-American actor, television personality, and game show panelist/host (b. 1932)
2012 – LeRoy Ellis , American basketball player (b. 1940)
2012 – Kathryn Joosten , American actress (b. 1939)
2012 – Jan Gmelich Meijling , Dutch commander and politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Mario Bernardi , Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1930)
2013 – Chen Xitong , Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (b. 1930)
2013 – Mandawuy Yunupingu , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yothu Yindi ) (b. 1956)
2014 – Ivica Brzić , Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
2014 – Anjan Das , Indian director and producer (b. 1951)
2014 – Gennadi Gusarov , Russian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
2014 – Nikolay Khrenkov , Russian bobsledder (b. 1984)
2014 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy , Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
2014 – Kuaima Riruako , Namibian politician (b. 1935)
2014 – Alexander Shulgin , American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925)
2015 – Fernando de Araújo , East Timorese politician, President of East Timor (b. 1963)
2015 – Irwin Rose , American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
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