April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 247 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).
224 – The Battle of Hormozdgān is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire .
357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius .
1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem , in Tyre , two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin .
1253 – Nichiren , a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism .
1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder .
1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas , The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution .
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty : Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island .
1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars .
1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III , King of Sardinia , expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico .
1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police , French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor , defusing a possible war.
1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race , the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
1920 – Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union .
1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1930 – The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas .
1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
1941 – The Ustaše massacred nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac , the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia .
1944 – World War II : Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger , the rehearsal for the Normandy landings , killing 946.
1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement .
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia .
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus , in New York City at New York City Center.
1949 – The Hukbalahap are accused of assassinating former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon , while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej marries Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne , Switzerland on July 19, 1949.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO .
1952 – Occupied Japan by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers : The United States occupation of Japan ends as the Treaty of San Francisco , ratified September 8, 1951, comes into force.
1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei , Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War .
1965 – United States occupation of the Dominican Republic : American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
1967 – Vietnam War : Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France .
1970 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia .
1975 – General Cao Văn Viên , chief of the South Vietnamese military , departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory .
1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
1977 – The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 – President of Afghanistan , Mohammed Daoud Khan , is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal , navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea .
1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua .
1988 – Near Maui , Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243 , a Boeing 737 , and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
1996 – Whitewater controversy : President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania : A gunman, Martin Bryant , opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania , killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
2001 – Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist .
2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1980 relating to Côte d'Ivoire is adopted.
32 – Otho , Roman emperor (d. 69 AD)
1442 – Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
1545 – Yi Sun-sin , Korean commander (d. 1598)
1630 – Charles Cotton , English poet and author (d. 1687)
1652 – Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1712)
1686 – Michael Brokoff , Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1715 – Franz Sparry , Austrian composer and educator (d. 1767)
1758 – James Monroe , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix , French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
1819 – Ezra Abbot , American scholar and academic (d. 1884)
1827 – William Hall , Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1904)
1838 – Tobias Asser , Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1913)
1848 – Ludvig Schytte , Danish pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1909)
1854 – Hertha Marks Ayrton , British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (d. 1923)
1855 – José Malhoa , Portuguese painter (d. 1933)
1863 – Josiah Thomas , English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933)
1865 – Charles W. Woodworth , American entomologist and academic (d. 1940)
1868 – Lucy Booth , English composer (d. 1953)
1868 – Hélène de Pourtalès , Swiss sailor (d. 1945)
1868 – Georgy Voronoy , Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1908)
1874 – Karl Kraus , Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1874 – Sidney Toler , American actor and director (d. 1947)
1876 – Nicola Romeo , Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1938)
1878 – Lionel Barrymore , American actor and director (d. 1954)
1886 – Art Shaw , American hurdler (d. 1955)
1888 – Walter Tull , English footballer and soldier (d. 1918)
1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1970)
1896 – Na Hye-sok , South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
1897 – Ye Jianying , Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (d. 1986)
1900 – Heinrich Müller , German SS officer (d. 1945)
1900 – Jan Oort , Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)
1901 – Henry Stallard , English runner and surgeon (d. 1973)
1902 – Johan Borgen , Norwegian author and critic (d. 1979)
1906 – Antonio "Joe Batters" Accardo , Chicago Outfit Boss, Gangster (d. 1992)
1906 – Kurt Gödel , Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1978)
1906 – Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor and philanthropist (d. 1999)
1908 – Ethel Catherwood , American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)
1908 – Jack Fingleton , Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (d. 1981)
1908 – Oskar Schindler , Czech-German businessman (d. 1974)
1909 – Arthur Võõbus , Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (d. 1988)
1910 – Sam Merwin, Jr. , American author (d. 1996)
1911 – Lee Falk , American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1999)
1912 – Odette Hallowes , French soldier and spy (d. 1995)
1912 – Kaneto Shindō , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1912 – József Sir , Hungarian sprinter (d. 1996)
1914 – Philip E. High , English author (d. 2006)
1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (d. 1993)
1917 – Robert Cornthwaite , American actor (d. 2006)
1921 – Rowland Evans , American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
1921 – Simin Daneshvar , Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
1923 – Carolyn Cassady , American author (d. 2013)
1923 – William Guarnere , American sergeant (d. 2014)
1924 – Dick Ayers , American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
1924 – Blossom Dearie , American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
1924 – Kenneth Kaunda , Zambian educator and politician, 1st President of Zambia
1925 – T. John Lesinski , American judge and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1996)
1925 – John Leonard Thorn , English lieutenant, author, and academic
1926 – James Bama , American artist and illustrator
1926 – Bill Blackbeard , American historian and author (d. 2011)
1926 – Harper Lee , American novelist (d. 2016)
1926 – Hulusi Sayın , Turkish general (d. 1991)
1928 – Yves Klein , French painter (d. 1962)
1928 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker , American geologist and astronomer (d. 1997)
1930 – James Baker , American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State
1930 – Carolyn Jones , American actress (d. 1983)
1930 – Richard C. Sarafian , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1930 – Alf Valentine , Jamaican cricketer (d. 2004)
1933 – Miodrag Radulovacki , Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (d. 2014)
1934 – Lois Duncan , American journalist and author
1934 – Diane Johnson , American-French author and screenwriter
1935 – Jimmy Wray , Scottish boxer and politician (d. 2013)
1936 – Tariq Aziz , Iraqi journalist and politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
1937 – Saddam Hussein , Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
1937 – Jean Redpath , Scottish-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1937 – John White , Scottish footballer (d. 1964)
1938 – Fred Dibnah , English steeplejack and television personality (d. 2004)
1938 – Madge Sinclair , Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
1941 – Ann-Margret , Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
1941 – Lucien Aimar , French cyclist
1941 – John Madejski , English businessman and academic
1941 – Nico Mastorakis , Greek director and producer
1941 – Flynn Robinson , American basketball player (d. 2013)
1941 – Karl Barry Sharpless , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Iryna Zhylenko , Ukrainian poet and author (d. 2013)
1942 – Mike Brearley , English cricketer and psychoanalyst
1943 – Jacques Dutronc , French singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1943 – Yoav Talmi , Israeli composer and conductor
1943 – Jeffrey Tate , English conductor
1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte , American director and producer
1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
1944 – Alice Waters , American chef and author
1946 – Nour El-Sherif , Egyptian actor and producer (d. 2015)
1946 – Ginette Reno , Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1946 – Larissa Grunig , American theorist and activist
1947 – Christian Jacq , French historian and author
1947 – Nicola LeFanu , English composer and academic
1948 – Dorothée Berryman , Canadian actress and singer
1948 – Terry Pratchett , English journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1948 – Marcia Strassman , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1949 – Jeremy Cooke , English lawyer and judge
1949 – Paul Guilfoyle , American actor
1949 – Bruno Kirby , American actor and director (d. 2006)
1949 – Indian Larry , American motorcycle rider and engineer (d. 2004)
1950 – Willie Colón , Puerto Rican trombonist and producer (Fania All-Stars )
1950 – Jay Leno , American comedian, talk show host, and producer
1950 – Steve Rider , English journalist and sportscaster
1951 – Tim Congdon , English economist and politician
1951 – Larry Smith , Canadian football player and politician
1951 – Silvi Vrait , Estonian singer and pianist (d. 2013)
1952 – Chuck Leavell , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Allman Brothers Band and Sea Level )
1952 – Mary McDonnell , American actress
1953 – Roberto Bolaño , Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (d. 2003)
1953 – Kim Gordon , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sonic Youth , Ciccone Youth , and Free Kitten )
1953 – Brian Greenhoff , English footballer and coach (d. 2013)
1954 – Timothy Curley , American educator
1954 – Michael P. Jackson , American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
1954 – Vic Sotto , Filipino actor and producer
1954 – Ron Zook , American football player and coach
1955 – Princess Antonia, Duchess of Wellington
1955 – Nicky Gumbel , English priest and author
1955 – Eddie Jobson , English keyboardist and violinist (Curved Air , Roxy Music , U.K. (band) , Jethro Tull (band) )
1955 – Dieter Rubach , German bassist and producer (Accept and U.D.O. )
1956 – Jimmy Barnes , Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cold Chisel , Fraternity , and Living Loud )
1957 – Wilma Landkroon , Dutch singer
1958 – Nancy Lee Grahn , American actress
1958 – Rosanna Scotto , American journalist and actress
1958 – Hal Sutton , American golfer
1959 – Dainis Kūla , Latvian javelin thrower
1959 – Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer (d. 2011)
1960 – Steven Blum , American voice actor and screenwriter
1960 – John Cerutti , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2004)
1960 – Elena Kagan , American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1960 – Phil King , English bass player (Lush and The Jesus and Mary Chain )
1960 – Ian Rankin , Scottish author
1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson , Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (d. 1993)
1960 – Walter Zenga , Italian footballer and manager
1963 – Sandrine Dumas , French actress, director, and screenwriter
1963 – Lloyd Eisler , Canadian figure skater and coach
1963 – Marc Lacroix , Belgian biochemist and academic
1964 – Stephen Ames , Trinidadian golfer
1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare , Japanese composer
1964 – Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar , English surgeon and academic
1964 – Barry Larkin , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1964 – L'Wren Scott , American model and fashion designer (d. 2014)
1965 – Jennifer Rardin , American author (d. 2010)
1966 – John Daly , American golfer
1966 – Too Short , American rapper, producer, and actor
1967 – Chris White , English engineer and politician
1968 – Howard Donald , English singer-songwriter and producer (Take That )
1968 – Andy Flower , South African-English cricketer and coach
1968 – Scott Putesky , American guitarist (Marilyn Manson and Jack Off Jill )
1970 – Richard Fromberg , Australian tennis player
1970 – Nicklas Lidström , Swedish ice hockey player and scout
1970 – Diego Simeone , Argentinian footballer and manager
1971 – Brad McEwan , Australian journalist
1971 – Thomas Pendelton , American tattoo artist
1972 – Anita Anand , English journalist and producer
1972 – Violent J , American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse , Dark Lotus , and Psychopathic Rydas )
1972 – Helena Tulve , Estonian composer
1972 – Jean-Paul van Gastel , Dutch footballer and manager
1973 – Jorge Garcia , American actor and producer
1973 – Earl Holmes , American football player and coach
1973 – Andrew Mehrtens , South African-New Zealand rugby player
1973 – Francisco Palencia , Mexican footballer
1973 – Elisabeth Röhm , German-American actress
1973 – Serge Zwikker , Dutch-American basketball player
1974 – Penélope Cruz , Spanish actress and producer
1974 – Margo Dydek , Polish basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
1974 – Richel Hersisia , Dutch boxer
1974 – Vernon Kay , English radio and television host
1974 – Dominic Matteo , Scottish footballer and journalist
1976 – Shane Jurgensen , Australian cricketer
1978 – Lauren Laverne , English singer and television host
1978 – Nate Richert , American musician and actor
1979 – Scott Fujita , American football player and sportscaster
1979 – Roman Rasskazov , Russian race walker
1980 – Noriko Eguchi , Japanese actress
1980 – Karolina Gočeva , Macedonian singer
1980 – Josh Howard , American basketball player
1980 – Bradley Wiggins , Belgian-English cyclist
1981 – Jessica Alba , American model and actress
1981 – Alex Riley , American wrestler and sportscaster
1981 – Pietro Travagli , Italian rugby player
1982 – Nikki Grahame , English model and journalist
1982 – Chris Kaman , American basketball player
1982 – Harry Shum, Jr. , Costa Rican-American actor and dancer
1983 – Josh Brookes , Australian motorcycle racer
1983 – Roger Johnson , English footballer
1983 – Thomas Waldrom , New Zealand-English rugby player
1984 – Dmitri Torbinski , Russian footballer
1984 – Toshiyuki Toyonaga , Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer-songwriter
1985 – Lucas Jakubczyk , German sprinter and long jumper
1985 – Deividas Stagniūnas , Lithuanian ice dancer
1986 – Abdullah Al-Qasabi , Omani footballer
1986 – David Krejčí , Czech ice hockey player
1986 – Jennifer Palm Lundberg , Swedish model, Miss World Sweden 2008
1986 – Roman Polák , Czech ice hockey player
1986 – Jenna Ushkowitz , South Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer
1987 – Ryan Conroy , Scottish footballer
1987 – Bradley Johnson , English footballer
1987 – Zoran Tošić , Serbian footballer
1988 – Jonathan Biabiany , French footballer
1988 – Juan Manuel Mata , Spanish footballer
1988 – Katariina Tuohimaa , Finnish tennis player
1989 – Emil Salomonsson , Swedish footballer
1989 – Kim Sung-kyu , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer (Infinite )
1990 – Nadia Lalami , Moroccan tennis player
1990 – Mario Meraz , Mexican boxer
1990 – Niels-Peter Mørck , Danish footballer
1991 – Jordan Robinson , English footballer
1992 – Lacey Banghard , English model
1993 – Craig Garvey , Australian rugby league player
1995 – Jonathan Benteke , Belgium footballer
1995 – Melanie Martinez , American singer-songwriter
224 – Artabanus V of Parthia (b. 191)
1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140)
1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland , English politician (b. 1449)
1533 – Nicholas West , English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1643 – Francisco de Lucena , Portuguese politician (b. 1578)
1710 – Thomas Betterton , English actor and manager (b. 1630)
1716 – Louis de Montfort , French priest and saint (b. 1673)
1726 – Thomas Pitt , English merchant and politician (b. 1653)
1740 – Bajirao I , Indian ruler (b. 1700)
1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie , Swedish general and politician (b. 1668)
1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee , German physician and politician (b. 1737)
1781 – Cornelius Harnett , American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)
1813 – Mikhail Kutuzov , Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht , German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1762)
1841 – Peter Chanel , French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
1853 – Ludwig Tieck , German author and poet (b. 1773)
1858 – Johannes Peter Müller , German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
1865 – Samuel Cunard , Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)
1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon , French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
1883 – John Russell , English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
1902 – Cyprien Tanguay , Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
1905 – Fitzhugh Lee , American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)
1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum , Dutch footballer (b. 1879)
1934 – Charley Patton , American singer and guitarist (b. 1887)
1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
1944 – Mohammed Alim Khan , Manghud ruler (b. 1880)
1944 – Frank Knox , American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
1945 – Roberto Farinacci , Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
1945 – Hermann Fegelein , German general (b. 1906)
1945 – Benito Mussolini , Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
1945 – Clara Petacci , Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
1946 – Louis Bachelier , French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
1949 – Aurora Quezon , Filipino wife of Manuel Quezon , 2nd First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1888)
1954 – Léon Jouhaux , French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1956 – Fred Marriott , American racing driver (b. 1872)
1957 – Heinrich Bär , German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
1960 – Turan Emeksiz , Turkish student (b. 1940)
1963 – Wilhelm Weber , German gymnast (b. 1880)
1964 – Rolf de Maré , Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1970 – Ed Begley , American actor (b. 1901)
1973 – Clas Thunberg , Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1975 – Tom Donahue , American radio host and producer (b. 1928)
1976 – Richard Hughes , American author and poet (b. 1900)
1977 – Ricardo Cortez , American actor (b. 1900)
1977 – Sepp Herberger , German footballer and coach (b. 1897)
1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan , Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
1980 – Tommy Caldwell , American bass player (The Marshall Tucker Band ) (b. 1949)
1981 – Steve Currie , English bass player (T. Rex ) (b. 1947)
1987 – Ben Linder , American engineer and activist (b. 1959)
1988 – B. W. Stevenson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
1991 – Steve Broidy , American film producer (b. 1905)
1991 – Ken Curtis , American actor and singer (Sons of the Pioneers ) (b. 1916)
1992 – Francis Bacon , Irish painter (b. 1909)
1992 – Iceberg Slim , American pimp and author (b. 1918)
1993 – Jim Valvano , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
1994 – Berton Roueché , American journalist and author (b. 1910)
1996 – Lester Sumrall , American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)
1997 – Ann Petry , American novelist (b. 1908)
1998 – Jerome Bixby , American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
1998 – Ramakant Desai , Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
1999 – Rory Calhoun , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1999 – Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
1999 – Alf Ramsey , English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
2000 – Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald , English author and poet (b. 1916)
2002 – Alexander Lebed , Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
2002 – Lou Thesz , American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)
2005 – Chris Candido , American wrestler (b. 1972)
2005 – Percy Heath , American bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet ) (b. 1923)
2005 – Taraki Sivaram , Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1959)
2007 – Dabbs Greer , American actor (b. 1917)
2007 – René Mailhot , Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
2007 – Tommy Newsom , American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2007 – Bertha Wilson , Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1923)
2009 – Vern Gosdin , American singer (b. 1934)
2009 – Ekaterina Maximova , Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1939)
2009 – Richard Pratt , Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934)
2011 – Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959)
2012 – Fred Allen , New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1920)
2012 – Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and author (b. 1919)
2012 – Al Ecuyer , American football player (b. 1937)
2012 – Patricia Medina , English actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Milan N. Popović , Serbian psychiatrist and author (b. 1924)
2012 – Aberdeen Shikoyi , Kenyan rugby player (b. 1985)
2012 – Ervin Zádor , Hungarian water polo player (b. 1935)
2013 – Brad Lesley , American baseball player and actor (b. 1958)
2013 – Fredrick McKissack , American author (b. 1939)
2013 – John C. Reynolds , American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
2013 – Jack Shea , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – János Starker , Hungarian-American cellist and educator (b. 1924)
2013 – Paulo Vanzolini , Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (b. 1924)
2013 – Bernie Wood , New Zealand journalist and author (b. 1939)
2014 – William Honan , American journalist and author (b. 1930)
2014 – Dennis Kamakahi , American guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
2014 – Edgar Laprade , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2014 – Jack Ramsay , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925)
2014 – Idris Sardi , Indonesian violinist and composer (b. 1938)
2014 – Frederic Schwartz , American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (b. 1951)
2014 – Ryan Tandy , Australian rugby player (b. 1981)
2015 – Antônio Abujamra , Brazilian actor and director (b. 1932)
2015 – Marcia Brown , American author and illustrator (b. 1918)
2015 – Jack Ely , American singer and guitarist (The Kingsmen ) (b. 1943)
2015 – Ashura Hara , Japanese rugby player and wrestler (b. 1947)
2015 – Michael J. Ingelido , American general (b. 1916)
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