July 26 is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 158 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
657 – First Fitna : In the Battle of Siffin , troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I .
811 – Battle of Pliska : Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona .
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V .
1469 – Wars of the Roses : The Battle of Edgecote Moor , pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England , takes place.
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadevaraya ascends to the throne, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire .
1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration) : The northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II .
1745 – The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford , England.
1758 – French and Indian War : The Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence .
1775 – The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress .
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway , arguably the world's first public railway , opens in south London, United Kingdom.
1822 – José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil , Ecuador , to meet with Simón Bolívar .
1822 – First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia , between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis .
1847 – Liberia declares its independence.
1857 – Siege of Arrah begins - 68 men hold out for 8 days against over 2000 mutinying Sepoys
1861 – American Civil War : George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run .
1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio , Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner 's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth .
1882 – The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro , founding the Esperanto movement.
1890 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman 's resignation.
1891 – France annexes Tahiti .
1897 – Anglo-Afghan War : The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation ).
1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
1936 – The Axis powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War .
1936 – King Edward VIII , in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the thrоne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial .
1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
1941 – World War II : In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina , US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army enters Lviv , a major city in western Ukraine , capturing it from the Nazis . Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam , Germany.
1945 – HMS Vestal is the last British Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the Second World War
1945 – The United States Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1946 – Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport
1947 – Cold War : U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency , United States Department of Defense , United States Air Force , Joint Chiefs of Staff , and the United States National Security Council .
1948 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.
1951 – Walt Disney 's 13th animated film , Alice in Wonderland , premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
1952 – King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad .
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks , thus beginning the Cuban Revolution . The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1953 – Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona , which becomes known as the Short Creek raid .
1953 – Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment repel a number of Chinese assaults against a key position known as The Hook during the Battle of the Samichon River , just hours before the Armistice Agreement is signed, ending the Korean War .
1956 – Following the World Bank 's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam , Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal , sparking international condemnation .
1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas , dictator of Guatemala , is assassinated.
1958 – Explorer program : Explorer 4 is launched.
1963 – Syncom 2 , the world's first geosynchronous satellite , is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.
1963 – An earthquake in Skopje , Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia ) leaves 1,100 dead.
1963 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives .
1968 – Vietnam War : South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1971 – Apollo program : Launch of Apollo 15 on the first Apollo "J-Mission ", and first use of a Lunar Roving Vehicle .
1971 – Nicolette Milnes-Walker completes sailing non-stop single-handedly across the Atlantic, becoming the first woman to successfully do so.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule .
1977 – The National Assembly of Quebec imposes the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm , thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act .
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George Bush .
1999 – Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. Indian Army announces complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.The day has since been marked as Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day) in India.
2005 – Space Shuttle program : STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery , NASA 's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003 .
2005 – Mumbai , India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.
2007 – Shambo , a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India .
2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi , leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
2013 – A gunman kills six people in Hialeah, Florida , and gets fatally shot by police.
2016 – Sagamihara stabbings occurs in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and 19 people are killed.
2016 – Hillary Clinton became the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia .
1030 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów , Polish bishop and saint (d. 1079)
1612 – Murad IV , Ottoman sultan (d. 1640)
1678 – Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1711)
1711 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler , German physician, mathematician, and historian (d. 1778)
1739 – George Clinton , American general and politician, 4th Vice President of the United States (d. 1812)
1782 – John Field , Irish pianist and composer (d. 1837)
1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1844)
1796 – George Catlin , American painter, author, and traveler (d. 1872)
1802 – Mariano Arista , Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico (d. 1855)
1819 – Justin Holland , American guitarist and educator (d. 1887)
1829 – Auguste Beernaert , Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
1841 – Carl Robert Jakobson , Estonian journalist and politician (d. 1882)
1842 – Alfred Marshall , English economist and academic (d. 1924)
1844 – Stefan Drzewiecki , Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
1846 – Texas Jack Omohundro , American hunter and actor (d. 1880)
1854 – Philippe Gaucher , French dermatologist and academic (d. 1918)
1855 – Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1856 – George Bernard Shaw , Irish playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1858 – Tom Garrett , Australian cricketer and lawyer (d. 1943)
1863 – Jāzeps Vītols , Latvian composer (d. 1948)
1865 – Philipp Scheidemann , German journalist and politician, 10th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1939)
1865 – Rajanikanta Sen , Indian poet and composer (d. 1910)
1874 – Serge Koussevitzky , Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
1875 – Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d. 1961)
1875 – Antonio Machado , Spanish poet and academic (d. 1939)
1878 – Ernst Hoppenberg , German swimmer and water polo player (d. 1937)
1879 – Shunroku Hata , Japanese field marshal and politician, 48th Japanese Minister of War (d. 1962)
1880 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Ukrainian playwright and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic (d. 1951)
1885 – André Maurois , French soldier and author (d. 1967)
1886 – Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (d. 1965)
1888 – Reginald Hands , South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1918)
1890 – Daniel J. Callaghan , American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942)
1892 – Sad Sam Jones , American baseball player and manager (d. 1966)
1893 – George Grosz , German painter and illustrator (d. 1959)
1894 – Aldous Huxley , English novelist and philosopher (d. 1963)
1895 – Gracie Allen , American actress and singer (d. 1964)
1895 – Jane Bunford , English giant (d. 1922)
1896 – Tim Birkin , English soldier and race car driver (d. 1933)
1897 – Harold D. Cooley , American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
1897 – Paul Gallico , American journalist and author (d. 1976)
1903 – Estes Kefauver , American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
1904 – Edwin Albert Link , American industrialist and entrepreneur, invented the flight simulator (d. 1981)
1906 – Irena Iłłakowicz , German-Polish lieutenant (d. 1943)
1908 – Lucien Wercollier , Luxembourger sculptor (d. 2002)
1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft , English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)
1909 – Vivian Vance , American actress and singer (d. 1979)
1913 – Kan Yuet-keung , Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1914 – C. Farris Bryant , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Governor of Florida (d. 2002)
1914 – Erskine Hawkins , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1993)
1914 – Ellis Kinder , American baseball player (d. 1968)
1916 – Dean Brooks , American physician and actor (d. 2013)
1916 – Jaime Luiz Coelho , Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)
1916 – Herbert Norkus , German Hitler Youth member (d. 1932)
1917 – Alberta Adams , American singer (d. 2014)
1918 – Marjorie Lord , American actress (d. 2015)
1919 – Virginia Gilmore , American actress (d. 1986)
1919 – James Lovelock , English biologist and chemist
1920 – Bob Waterfield , American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1921 – Tom Saffell , American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1921 – Jean Shepherd , American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1922 – Blake Edwards , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1922 – Jim Foglesong , American record producer (d. 2013)
1922 – Jason Robards , American actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Jan Berenstain , American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1923 – Hoyt Wilhelm , American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
1925 – Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish physician and politician (d. 2000)
1925 – Joseph Engelberger , American physicist and engineer (d. 2015)
1925 – Gene Gutowski , Polish-American producer (d. 2016)
1925 – Ana María Matute , Spanish author and academic (d. 2014)
1926 – James Best , American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1927 – Gulabrai Ramchand , Indian cricketer (d. 2003)
1928 – Don Beauman , English race car driver (d. 1955)
1928 – Francesco Cossiga , Italian academic and politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
1928 – Elliott Erwitt , French-American photographer and director
1928 – Ibn-e-Safi , Indian-Pakistani author and poet (d. 1980)
1928 – Stanley Kubrick , American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1999)
1928 – Peter Lougheed , Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (d. 2012)
1928 – Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes , English politician
1928 – Bernice Rubens , Welsh author (d. 2004)
1929 – Marc Lalonde , Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice
1929 – Joe Jackson , American talent manager, father of the Jackson family
1929 – Alexis Weissenberg , Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (d. 2012)
1930 – Plínio de Arruda Sampaio , Brazilian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1930 – Barbara Jefford , English actress
1931 – Telê Santana , Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1933 – Lance Percival , English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1933 – Igor Plechanov , Russian motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
1933 – Yomo Toro , Puerto Rican-American guitarist and composer (d. 2012)
1934 – Tommy McDonald , American football player
1936 – Tsutomu Koyama , Japanese volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
1936 – Lawrie McMenemy , English footballer and manager
1938 – Bobby Hebb , American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1938 – Keith Peters , Welsh physician and academic
1939 – Jun Henmi , Japanese author and poet (d. 2011)
1939 – John Howard , Australian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
1939 – Bob Lilly , American football player and photographer
1939 – Richard Marlow , English organist and conductor (d. 2013)
1940 – Dobie Gray , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1940 – Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney , Irish academic and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1940 – Bobby Rousseau , Canadian ice hockey player
1940 – Tolis Voskopoulos , Greek singer-songwriter and actor
1941 – Jean Baubérot , French historian and sociologist
1941 – Darlene Love , American singer
1942 – Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia
1942 – Teddy Pilette , Belgian race car driver
1943 – Peter Hyams , American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1943 – Mick Jagger , English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Rolling Stones and SuperHeavy )
1945 – Betty Davis , American singer-songwriter
1945 – Helen Mirren , English actress and producer
1946 – Emilio de Villota , Spanish race car driver
1948 – Luboš Andršt , Czech guitarist and songwriter (Energit and Framus Five )
1948 – Herbert Wiesinger , German figure skater
1949 – Thaksin Shinawatra , Thai businessman and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Thailand
1949 – Roger Taylor , English singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Queen , The Cross , and Smile )
1950 – Nelinho , Brazilian footballer and manager
1950 – Nicholas Evans , English journalist, screenwriter, and producer
1950 – Susan George , English actress and producer
1950 – Anne Rafferty , English lawyer and judge
1950 – Rich Vogler , American race car driver (d. 1990)
1951 – Rick Martin , Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1952 – Glynis Breakwell , English psychologist and academic
1953 – Felix Magath , German footballer and manager
1953 – Robert Phillips , American guitarist
1953 – Henk Bleker , Dutch politician
1953 – Earl Tatum , American professional basketball player
1954 – Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player and coach (d. 1994)
1955 – Aleksandrs Starkovs , Latvian footballer and coach
1955 – Asif Ali Zardari , Pakistani businessman and politician, 11th President of Pakistan
1956 – Peter Fincham , English screenwriter and producer
1956 – Dorothy Hamill , American figure skater
1956 – Tommy Rich , American wrestler
1956 – Tim Tremlett , English cricketer and coach
1957 – Norman Baker , Scottish politician
1957 – Yuen Biao , Hong Kong actor and martial artist
1957 – Hart Hanson , American screenwriter and producer
1957 – Nana Visitor , American actress
1958 – Monti Davis , American basketball player (d. 2013)
1958 – Angela Hewitt , Canadian-English pianist
1958 – Thierry Gilardi , French sportscaster (d. 2008)
1959 – Rick Bragg , American author and journalist
1959 – Tom McGowan , American actor
1959 – Kevin Spacey , American actor and director
1961 – Gary Cherone , American singer-songwriter (Extreme , Van Halen , Tribe of Judah , and Hurtsmile )
1961 – Andy Connell , English keyboard player and songwriter (Swing Out Sister and A Certain Ratio )
1961 – Felix Dexter , Caribbean-English comedian and actor (d. 2013)
1961 – Cholo Laurel , Filipino director and screenwriter
1961 – Dimitris Saravakos , Greek footballer
1962 – Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh , Irish singer and fiddler (Altan , T with the Maggies , and String Sisters )
1963 – Jeff Stoughton , Canadian curler
1964 – Sandra Bullock , American actress and producer
1964 – Ralf Metzenmacher , German painter and designer
1964 – Anne Provoost , Belgian author
1965 – Jeremy Piven , American actor and producer
1967 – Martin Baker , English organist and conductor
1967 – Tim Schafer , American video game designer, founded Double Fine Productions
1967 – Jason Statham , English actor
1968 – Frédéric Diefenthal , French actor and director
1968 – Jim Naismith , Scottish biologist and academic
1968 – Olivia Williams , English actress
1969 – Greg Colbrunn , American baseball player and coach
1969 – Tanni Grey-Thompson , Welsh wheelchair racer and politician
1970 – Joan Wasser , American singer-songwriter and violinist (The Dambuilders , Those Bastard Souls , and Antony and the Johnsons )
1971 – Khaled Mahmud , Bangladeshi cricketer and coach
1971 – Scott Cawthon , American independent video game developer and animator
1972 – Nathan Buckley , Australian footballer and coach
1972 – Indrek Sei , Estonian swimmer
1973 – Kate Beckinsale , English actress
1973 – Mariano Raffo , Argentinian director and producer
1974 – Iron & Wine , American singer-songwriter
1974 – Kees Meeuws , New Zealand rugby player and coach
1974 – Dean Sturridge , English footballer and sportscaster
1975 – Ingo Schultz , German sprinter
1975 – Joe Smith , American basketball player
1975 – Elizabeth Truss , English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1976 – Elena Kustarova , Russian ice dancer and coach
1977 – Joaquín Benoit , Dominican baseball player
1977 – Martin Laursen , Danish footballer and manager
1977 – Tanja Szewczenko , German figure skater and actress
1979 – Friedrich Michau , German rugby player
1979 – Derek Paravicini , English pianist
1979 – Peter Sarno , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Erik Westrum , American ice hockey player
1980 – Dave Baksh , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sum 41 , Brown Brigade , and Organ Thieves )
1980 – Robert Gallery , American football player
1981 – Abe Forsythe , Australian actor, director, and screenwriter
1981 – Maicon Sisenando , Brazilian footballer
1982 – Gilad Hochman , Israeli composer
1982 – Christopher Kane , Scottish fashion designer
1983 – Stephen Makinwa , Nigerian footballer
1983 – Roderick Strong , American wrestler
1983 – Naomi van As , Dutch field hockey player
1983 – Delonte West , American basketball player
1984 – Kyriakos Ioannou , Cypriot high jumper
1984 – Benjamin Kayser , French rugby player
1984 – Sabri Sarıoğlu , Turkish footballer
1985 – Marcus Benard , American football player
1985 – Bibi Zhou , Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Gaël Clichy , French footballer
1985 – Audrey De Montigny , Canadian singer-songwriter
1985 – Mat Gamel , American baseball player
1986 – Leonardo Ulloa , Argentinian footballer
1986 – John White , English footballer
1987 – Panagiotis Kone , Greek footballer
1987 – Alec Martinez , American ice hockey player
1987 – Fredy Montero , Colombian footballer
1989 – Ivian Sarcos , Venezuelan model, Miss World 2011
1991 – Tyson Barrie , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Marika Koroibete , Fijian rugby player
1994 – Ella Leivo , Finnish tennis player
1996 – Olivia Breen , English-Welsh sprinter
342 – Emperor Cheng of Jin (b. 321)
432 – Pope Celestine I
811 – Nikephoros I , Byzantine emperor
1380 – Emperor Kōmyō of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1533 – Atahualpa , Inca emperor murdered by Francisco Pizarro (b. ca. 1500)
1592 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron , French general (b. 1524)
1605 – Miguel de Benavides , Spanish archbishop and sinologist (b. 1552)
1611 – Horio Yoshiharu , Japanese daimyo (b. 1542)
1659 – Mary Frith , English pickpocket and fence (b. 1584)
1680 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , English poet and courtier (b. 1647)
1684 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia , Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1646)
1712 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1631)
1723 – Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven , English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1660)
1801 – Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (b. 1756)
1863 – Sam Houston , American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 – Otto, King of Greece (b. 1815)
1915 – James Murray , Scottish lexicographer and philologist (b. 1837)
1919 – Edward Poynter , English painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
1921 – Howard Vernon , Australian actor (b. 1848)
1925 – Antonio Ascari , Italian race car driver (b. 1888)
1925 – Gottlob Frege , German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1848)
1925 – William Jennings Bryan , American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1926 – Robert Todd Lincoln , American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War , son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1843)
1930 – Pavlos Karolidis , Greek historian and academic (b. 1849)
1932 – Fred Duesenberg , German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company (b. 1876)
1934 – Winsor McCay , American cartoonist, animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
1938 – Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (b. 1861)
1941 – Henri Lebesgue , French mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
1942 – Roberto Arlt , Argentinian author and playwright (b. 1900)
1952 – Eva Perón , Argentinian actress and politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (b. 1919)
1953 – Nikolaos Plastiras , Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
1960 – Cedric Gibbons , Irish-American art director and production designer (b. 1893)
1960 – Maud Menten , Canadian physician and biochemist (b. 1879)
1964 – Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , English race car driver and politician (b. 1884)
1968 – Cemal Tollu , Turkish lieutenant and painter (b. 1899)
1970 – Robert Taschereau , Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
1971 – Diane Arbus , American photographer and academic (b. 1923)
1980 – Ibn-e-Safi , Pakistani author and poet (b. 1928)
1984 – George Gallup , American mathematician and statistician, founded the Gallup Company (b. 1901)
1986 – W. Averell Harriman , American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1891)
1988 – Fazlur Rahman Malik , Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (b. 1919)
1990 – Brent Mydland , German-American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead , Bobby and the Midnites , and Silver ) (b. 1952)
1992 – Mary Wells , American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1993 – Matthew Ridgway , American general (b. 1895)
1994 – James Luther Adams , American theologian and academic (b. 1901)
1994 – Tonia Marketaki , Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1942)
1995 – Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian-American guitarist and composer (b. 1917)
1995 – Raymond Mailloux , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1995 – George W. Romney , American businessman and politician, 43rd Governor of Michigan (b. 1907)
1999 – Walter Jackson Bate , American author and critic (b. 1918)
1999 – Phaedon Gizikis , Greek general and politician, President of Greece (b. 1917)
2000 – John Tukey , American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
2001 – Rex T. Barber , American colonel and pilot (b. 1917)
2001 – Peter von Zahn , German journalist and author (b. 1913)
2004 – William A. Mitchell , American chemist, created Pop Rocks and Cool Whip (b. 1911)
2005 – Alexander Golitzen , Russian-born American production designer and art director (b. 1908)
2005 – Jack Hirshleifer , American economist and academic (b. 1925)
2005 – Gilles Marotte , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
2007 – Lars Forssell , Swedish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1928)
2007 – Skip Prosser , American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
2009 – Merce Cunningham , American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
2010 – Sivakant Tiwari , Indian-Singaporean politician (b. 1945)
2011 – Joe Arroyo , Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1955)
2011 – Richard Harris , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1948)
2011 – Sakyo Komatsu , Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2011 – Margaret Olley , Australian painter and philanthropist (b. 1923)
2012 – Don Bagley , American bassist and composer (b. 1927)
2012 – Karl Benjamin , American painter and educator (b. 1925)
2012 – Miriam Ben-Porat , Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (b. 1918)
2012 – Lupe Ontiveros , American actress (b. 1942)
2012 – James D. Watkins , American admiral and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2013 – JJ Cale , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Leathercoated Minds ) (b. 1938)
2013 – Luther F. Cole , American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2013 – Harley Flanders , American mathematician and academic (b. 1925)
2013 – Sung Jae-gi , South Korean philosopher and activist (b. 1967)
2013 – George P. Mitchell , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1919)
2014 – Oleh Babayev , Ukrainian businessman and politician (b. 1965)
2014 – Charles R. Larson , American admiral (b. 1936)
2014 – Richard MacCormac , English architect, founded MJP Architects (b. 1938)
2014 – Sergei O. Prokofieff , Russian anthropologist and author (b. 1954)
2014 – Roland Verhavert , Belgian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2015 – Bijoy Krishna Handique , Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Mines (b. 1934)
2015 – Flora MacDonald , Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (b. 1926)
2015 – Leo Reise, Jr. , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
2015 – Ann Rule , American police officer and author (b. 1931)
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