July 31 is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 153 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
30 BC – Battle of Alexandria : Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Traditional Japanese date : July 6, 781).
1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII .
1201 – Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos the Fat for the throne of Alexios III Angelos .
1423 – Hundred Years' War : Battle of Cravant : The French army is defeated by the English at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne .
1451 – Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France .
1492 – The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad .
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67) : The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , Vilnius , which it holds for six years.
1658 – Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War : Treaty of Breda ends the conflict.
1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet , but is pelted with flowers.
1712 – Action of 31 July 1712 (Great Northern War ): Danish and Swedish ships clash in the Baltic Sea ; the result is inconclusive.
1715 – Seven days after a Spanish treasure fleet of 12 ships left Havana , Cuba for Spain, 11 of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida . A few centuries later, treasure is salvaged from these wrecks.
1741 – Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia .
1763 – Odawa Chief Pontiac 's forces defeat British troops at the Battle of Bloody Run during Pontiac's War .
1777 – The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Gilbert du Motier "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1790 – The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1856 – Christchurch , New Zealand is chartered as a city.
1865 – The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland , Australia.
1874 – Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first Black man to be inaugurated as president of a predominantly White American university.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War : Battle of Hsimucheng : Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest .
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution , which comes into force on August 14.
1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1932 – The NSDAP (Nazi Party ) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections .
1938 – Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey , Romania , Yugoslavia ).
1938 – Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis .
1941 – The Holocaust : Under instructions from Adolf Hitler , Nazi official Hermann Göring , orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
1945 – Pierre Laval , the fugitive former leader of Vichy France , surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport ) is dedicated.
1948 – USS Nevada is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships.
1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 85 relating to Korean War is adopted.
1954 – First ascent of K2 , by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio .
1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts , the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the ninth inning because of rain.
1964 – Ranger program : Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon , with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes .
1970 – Black Tot Day : The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy .
1971 – Apollo program : Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover .
1972 – The Troubles : In Operation Motorman , the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland . It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence . Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy .
1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner, flight DL 723 crashes while landing in fog at Logan International Airport , Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 – The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland .
1988 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang , Malaysia .
1991 – The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
1992 – Georgia joins the United Nations .
1992 – Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu , Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
1999 – Discovery Program : Lunar Prospector : NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro .
2007 – Operation Banner , the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland , and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
2012 – Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics .
2014 – Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
1143 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (d. 1165)
1396 – Philip the Good , French son of John the Fearless (d. 1467)
1527 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1598 – Alessandro Algardi , Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
1702 – Jean Denis Attiret , French missionary and painter (d. 1768)
1704 – Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1752)
1718 – John Canton , English physicist and academic (d. 1772)
1724 – Noël François de Wailly , French lexicographer and author (d. 1801)
1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813)
1777 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros , Argentinian priest and politician (d. 1849)
1796 – Jean-Gaspard Deburau , Czech-French actor and mime (d. 1846)
1800 – Friedrich Wöhler , German chemist and academic (d. 1882)
1803 – John Ericsson , Swedish-American engineer, co-designed the Novelty Locomotive (d. 1889)
1816 – George Henry Thomas , American general (d. 1870)
1826 – William S. Clark , American colonel and politician (d. 1886)
1835 – Henri Brisson , French lawyer and politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (d. 1912)
1835 – Paul Du Chaillu , French-American anthropologist and explorer (d. 1903)
1836 – Vasily Sleptsov , Russian author and activist (d. 1878)
1837 – William Quantrill , American captain (d. 1865)
1839 – Ignacio Andrade , Venezuelan general and politician, 25th President of Venezuela (d. 1925)
1843 – Peter Rosegger , Austrian poet and author (d. 1918)
1847 – Ignacio Cervantes , Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1905)
1854 – José Canalejas , Spanish academic and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1912)
1858 – Richard Dixon Oldham , English seismologist and geologist (d. 1936)
1860 – Mary Vaux Walcott , American painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
1867 – S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded Kmart (d. 1966)
1875 – Jacques Villon , French painter (d. 1963)
1880 – Premchand , Indian author and playwright (d. 1936)
1883 – Ramón Fonst , Cuban fencer (d. 1959)
1884 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , Polish-German economist and politician (d. 1945)
1885 – Luigi Serventi , Italian actor (d. 1976)
1886 – Salvatore Maranzano , Italian-American mob boss (d. 1931)
1886 – Fred Quimby , American animator and producer (d. 1965)
1887 – Hans Freyer , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)
1892 – Herbert W. Armstrong , American evangelist and publisher, founded Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)
1892 – Joseph Charbonneau , Canadian archbishop (d. 1959)
1894 – Fred Keenor , Welsh footballer (d. 1972)
1901 – Jean Dubuffet , French painter and sculptor (d. 1985)
1902 – Gubby Allen , Australian-English cricketer and soldier (d. 1989)
1904 – Brett Halliday , American engineer, surveyor, and author (d. 1977)
1907 – Roy Milton , American singer, drummer, and bandleader (d. 1983)
1909 – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , Austrian theorist and author (d. 1999)
1911 – George Liberace , American violinist (d. 1983)
1912 – Bill Brown , Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
1912 – Milton Friedman , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1912 – Irv Kupcinet , American football player and journalist (d. 2003)
1913 – Bryan Hextall , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1914 – Paul J. Christiansen , American conductor and composer (d. 1997)
1914 – Louis de Funès , French actor and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1916 – Sibte Hassan , Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (d. 1986)
1916 – Billy Hitchcock , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2006)
1916 – Bill Todman , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)
1917 – Jini Dellaccio , American photographer (d. 2014)
1918 – Paul D. Boyer , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 – Hank Jones , American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2010)
1918 – Frank Renouf , New Zealand businessman and financier (d. 1998)
1919 – Hemu Adhikari , Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1919 – Curt Gowdy , American sportscaster and actor (d. 2006)
1919 – Primo Levi , Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
1920 – James E. Faust , American religious leader, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
1920 – Percy Herbert , English actor (d. 1992)
1921 – Peter Benenson , English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1921 – Donald Malarkey , American sergeant and author
1921 – Whitney Young , American activist (d. 1971)
1922 – Hank Bauer , American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1923 – Ahmet Ertegun , Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded Atlantic Records (d. 2006)
1923 – Stephanie Kwolek , American chemist and engineer, invented Kevlar (d. 2014)
1924 – Jimmy Evert , American tennis player and coach (d. 2015)
1925 – Carmel Quinn , Irish singer, actress and writer
1926 – Bernard Nathanson , American physician and activist (d. 2011)
1926 – Hilary Putnam , American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher (d. 2016)
1927 – Peter Nichols , English author and playwright
1928 – Bill Frenzel , American lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
1929 – Lynne Reid Banks , English author
1929 – Gilles Carle , Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1929 – Don Murray , American actor
1929 – José Santamaría , Uruguayan footballer and manager
1931 – Nick Bollettieri , American tennis player and coach
1931 – Kenny Burrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 – Ted Cassidy , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1932 – Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (d. 2016)
1932 – John Searle , American philosopher and academic
1933 – Cees Nooteboom , Dutch journalist, author, and poet
1935 – Yvon Deschamps , Canadian comedian, actor, and producer
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1935 – Anthony Scrivener , English lawyer (d. 2015)
1936 – Vic Davalillo , Venezuelan baseball player
1939 – Steuart Bedford , English pianist and conductor
1939 – Susan Flannery , American actress and director
1939 – France Nuyen , Vietnamese-French actress
1940 – Carol J. Clover , American author and academic
1940 – Roy Walker , Northern Irish comedian, actor, and game show host
1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary , Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Gujarat (d. 2004)
1941 – Heather McKay , Australian squash player and coach
1943 – Lobo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – William Bennett , American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin , American actress and screenwriter
1944 – Jonathan Dimbleby , English journalist and author
1944 – Sherry Lansing , American actress and producer
1944 – Robert C. Merton , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – David Norris , Congolese-Irish scholar and politician
1945 – William Weld , American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
1946 – Gary Lewis , American singer and drummer (Gary Lewis & the Playboys )
1946 – Karen Zerby , American cult leader
1947 – Richard Griffiths , English actor (d. 2013)
1947 – Hubert Védrine , French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 – Ian Beck , English children's illustrator and author
1947 – Mumtaz , Indian actress
1948 – Russell Morris , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Mike Jackson , American basketball player
1949 – Alan Meale , English journalist and politician
1950 – Richard Berry , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1950 – Charlie Williams , English racing motorcyclist
1951 – Evonne Goolagong Cawley , Australian tennis player
1951 – Barry Van Dyke , American actor and screenwriter
1952 – Chris Ahrens , American ice hockey player
1952 – Alan Autry , American football player, actor, and politician, 23rd Mayor of Fresno, California
1952 – Helmuts Balderis , Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1952 – João Barreiros , Portuguese author and critic
1952 – Faye Kellerman , American author
1953 – Ted Baillieu , Australian architect and politician, 46th Premier of Victoria
1953 – Jimmy Cook , South African cricketer and coach
1954 – Manivannan , Indian actor and director (d. 2013)
1954 – Derek Smith , Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Michael Biehn , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956 – Bill Callahan , American football player and coach
1956 – Ernie Dingo , Australian actor and television host
1956 – Ron Kuby , American lawyer and radio host
1956 – Deval Patrick , American lawyer and politician, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
1956 – Lynne Rae Perkins , American author and illustrator
1957 – Daniel Ash , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bauhaus , Love and Rockets , and Tones on Tail )
1957 – Jane Bennett , American sociologist, theorist, and academic
1957 – Leon Durham , American baseball player and actor
1957 – Shan Goshorn , American photographer
1957 – Mark Thompson , English businessman
1958 – Bill Berry , American singer-songwriter and drummer (R.E.M. and Hindu Love Gods )
1958 – Mark Cuban , American businessman and television personality
1958 – Suzanne Giraud , French music editor and composer
1958 – Wally Kurth , American actor
1959 – Stanley Jordan , American guitarist, pianist, and songwriter
1959 – Andrew Marr , Scottish journalist and author
1959 – Peter Senior , Australian golfer
1960 – Dale Hunter , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Malcolm Ross , Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Josef K and Orange Juice )
1961 – Frank Gardner , English captain and journalist
1962 – John Chiang , American lawyer and politician, 31st California State Controller
1962 – Kevin Greene , American football player and coach
1962 – Wesley Snipes , American martial artist, actor, and producer
1963 – Fergus Henderson , English chef and author
1963 – Brian Skrudland , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1964 – Jim Corr , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Corrs )
1964 – Urmas Hepner , Estonian footballer and coach
1965 – Scott Brooks , American basketball player and coach
1965 – John Laurinaitis , American wrestler and producer
1965 – Ian Roberts , English-Australian rugby league player and actor
1965 – J. K. Rowling , English author and film producer
1966 – Dean Cain , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Tatsuya Ishihara , Japanese animator and director
1966 – Kevin Martin , Canadian curler and sportscaster
1967 – Minako Honda , Japanese singer and actress (d. 2005)
1967 – Tony Massenburg , American basketball player
1967 – Peter Rono , Kenyan-American runner
1967 – Tim Wright , Welsh composer
1968 – Saeed-Al-Saffar , Emirati cricketer
1968 – Julian Richards , Welsh director and producer
1969 – Loren Dean , American actor
1969 – Kid Kash , American wrestler and mixed martial artist
1969 – Kenneth D. Schisler , American lawyer and politician
1970 – Ahmad Akbarpour , Iranian author and poet
1970 – Ben Chaplin , English actor
1970 – Andrzej Kobylański , Polish footballer and manager
1970 – Giorgos Sigalas , Greek basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1970 – Dave Wedge , American journalist and author
1971 – John 5 , American guitarist and songwriter (2wo , Loser , and Red Square Black )
1971 – Gus Frerotte , American football player and coach
1972 – Giorgos Kapoutzidis , Greek actor and screenwriter
1973 – Wail al-Shehri , Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1973 – Nathan Brown , Australian rugby league player and coach
1973 – Fabulous Flournoy , American basketball player and coach
1974 – Leona Naess , American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Jonathan Ogden , American football player
1975 – Randy Flores , American baseball player and coach
1975 – Andrew Hall , South African cricketer
1975 – Gabe Kapler , American baseball player and manager
1975 – Ruben Patterson , American basketball player
1975 – Allan von Schenkel , American bassist and composer
1976 – Joshua Cain , American guitarist and producer (Motion City Soundtrack )
1976 – Paulo Wanchope , Costa Rican footballer and manager
1977 – Tim Couch , American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Will Champion , English drummer and singer (Coldplay )
1978 – Zeta Makripoulia , Greek model, actress, and fashion designer
1978 – Nick Sorensen , American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Justin Wilson , English race car driver (d. 2015)
1979 – Jaco Erasmus , South African-Italian rugby player
1979 – J. J. Furmaniak , American baseball player
1979 – Per Krøldrup , Danish footballer
1979 – Carlos Marchena , Spanish footballer
1979 – B. J. Novak , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Mikko Hirvonen , Finnish race car driver
1980 – Mils Muliaina , New Zealand rugby player
1981 – Titus Bramble , English footballer
1981 – Vernon Carey , American football player
1981 – M. Shadows , American singer-songwriter (Avenged Sevenfold )
1981 – Paul Whatuira , New Zealand rugby league player
1982 – Jeff DaRosa , American singer and banjo player (Dropkick Murphys and The Exit )
1982 – Blessing Mahwire , Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 – Anabel Medina Garrigues , Spanish tennis player
1982 – DeMarcus Ware , American football player
1984 – Joseph Benavidez , American mixed martial artist
1984 – Felipe dal Belo , Brazilian footballer
1985 – Daniel Ciofani , Italian footballer
1985 – Shannon Curfman , American singer and guitarist
1985 – Rémy Di Gregorio , French cyclist
1986 – Evgeni Malkin , Russian ice hockey player
1986 – Brian Orakpo , American football player
1987 – Michael Bradley , American soccer player
1987 – Mike Tompkins , Canadian singer
1988 – Alex Glenn , New Zealand rugby league footballer
1988 – A. J. Green , American football player
1988 – Krystal Meyers , American singer-songwriter
1989 – Victoria Azarenka , Belarusian tennis player
1989 – Johanna Omolo , Kenyan footballer
1990 – Besart Abdurahimi , Macedonian footballer
1991 – Réka Luca Jani , Hungarian tennis player
1992 – Lizzy , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School and Orange Caramel )
1992 – José Fernández , Cuban baseball player
1992 – Ryan Johansen , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Kyle Larson , American race car driver
1993 – Curtis Sironen , Australian rugby league player
1996 – Blake Michael , American actor, director, and producer
54 BC – Aurelia Cotta , Roman mother of Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 120 BC)
450 – Peter Chrysologus , Italian bishop and saint (b. 380)
1358 – Étienne Marcel , French rebel leader (b. 1302)
1396 – William Courtenay , English archbishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
1508 – Na'od , Ethiopian emperor (b. 1494)
1556 – Ignatius of Loyola , Spanish priest and theologian, founded the Society of Jesus (b. 1491)
1653 – Thomas Dudley , English-American soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1576)
1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1695)
1750 – John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
1762 – Luis Vicente de Velasco e Isla Spanish sailor and commander (b. 1711)
1784 – Denis Diderot , French philosopher and critic (b. 1713)
1795 – Grigory Shelikhov , Russian merchant (b. 1747)
1805 – Dheeran Chinnamalai , Indian soldier (b. 1756)
1864 – Louis Christophe François Hachette , French publisher (b. 1800)
1875 – Andrew Johnson , American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
1884 – Kiến Phúc , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1869)
1886 – Franz Liszt , Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811)
1914 – Jean Jaurès , French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
1917 – Francis Ledwidge , Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
1917 – Hedd Wyn , Welsh soldier and poet (b. 1887)
1920 – Ion Dragoumis , Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)
1940 – Udham Singh , Indian activist (b. 1899)
1943 – Hedley Verity , English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
1953 – Robert A. Taft , American soldier and politician (b. 1889)
1954 – Onofre Marimón , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1923)
1958 – Eino Kaila , Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (b. 1890)
1963 – Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet , English colonel and politician (b. 1880)
1964 – Jim Reeves , American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
1966 – Bud Powell , American pianist (b. 1924)
1970 – Walter Briggs Jr. , American businessman (b. 1912)
1971 – Walter P. Carter , American soldier and activist (b. 1923)
1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak , Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899)
1973 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (b. 1921)
1979 – Beatrix Lehmann , English actress and director (b. 1903)
1980 – Pascual Jordan , German physicist, author, and academic (b. 1902)
1980 – Mohammed Rafi , Indian singer (b. 1924)
1981 – Omar Torrijos , Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1929)
1985 – Eugene Carson Blake , American religious leader (b. 1906)
1986 – Chiune Sugihara , Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1986 – Teddy Wilson , American pianist and educator (b. 1912)
1987 – Joseph E. Levine , American film producer (b, 1905)
1990 – Albert Leduc , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 – Leonard Cheshire , English captain and pilot (b. 1917)
1993 – Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
2000 – William Keepers Maxwell Jr. , American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
2001 – Poul Anderson , American author (b. 1926)
2001 – Francisco da Costa Gomes , Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
2001 – Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
2003 – Guido Crepax , Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
2004 – Laura Betti , Italian actress and singer (b. 1927)
2004 – Virginia Grey , American actress (b. 1917)
2005 – Wim Duisenberg , Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
2006 – Paul Eells , American sportscaster (b. 1935)
2009 – Bobby Robson , English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2009 – Harry Alan Towers , English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
2012 – César Amaro , Uruguayan guitarist (b. 1948)
2012 – Mollie Hunter , Scottish author and playwright (b. 1922)
2012 – Alfredo Ramos , Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1924)
2012 – Tony Sly , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (No Use for a Name and Scorpios ) (b. 1970)
2012 – Gore Vidal , American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2013 – Michael Ansara , American actor (b. 1922)
2013 – Michel Donnet , English-Belgian general and pilot (b. 1917)
2013 – John Graves , American captain and author (b. 1920)
2013 – Trevor Storer , English businessman, founded Pukka Pies (b. 1930)
2014 – Warren Bennis , American scholar, author, and academic (b. 1925)
2014 – Nabarun Bhattacharya , Indian journalist and author (b. 1948)
2014 – Jeff Bourne , English footballer (b. 1948)
2014 – Wilfred Feinberg , American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
2014 – Kenny Ireland , Scottish actor and director (b. 1945)
2015 – Alan Cheuse , American writer and critic (b. 1940)
2015 – Howard W. Jones , American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
2015 – Billy Pierce , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)
2015 – Roddy Piper , Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1954)
2015 – Richard Schweiker , American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (b. 1926)
2016 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna (b. 1955)
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