May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 223 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).
334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus .
192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu .
853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys the undefended Damietta in Egypt .
1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins ) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo .
1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet .
1246 – Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany , in opposition to Conrad IV .
1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1370 – The Brussels massacre : Several Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels .
1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe .
1455 – Start of the Wars of the Roses : At the First Battle of St Albans , Richard, Duke of York , defeats and captures King Henry VI of England .
1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War .
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg .
1762 – Trevi Fountain in Rome is officially completed and inaugurated by Pope Clemens XIII.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason .
1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna , Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1812 – Action of 22 May 1812 : A small French two-frigate squadron comprising Ariane and Andromaque , returning from a commerce raiding campaign in the Atlantic, meets the 74-gun HMS Northumberland while trying the slip to Lorient through the British blockade.
1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire , England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia , United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool on June 20 .
1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique .
1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery .
1863 – American Civil War : Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in US military history.
1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army 's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
1872 – Reconstruction Era : President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1885 – Prior to burial in the Panthéon , the body of Victor Hugo was held under the Arc de Triomphe during the night.
1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine ".
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green , Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
1927 – Near Xining , China a 8.3 quake caused 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel .
1941 – During the Anglo-Iraqi War , British troops take Fallujah .
1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies .
1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union , the United Steelworkers , is formed.
1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern .
1947 – Cold War : In an effort to fight the spread of Communism , the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law, after congressional approval, that will later be called the Truman Doctrine . The act grants $ 400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece , both battling internal communist insurgencies.
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 49 is adopted.
1958 – 1958 riots in Ceylon : This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Tamils .
1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale , now known as the Great Chilean earthquake , hits southern Chile . It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1963 – Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt; he dies five days later.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches the Great Society .
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels , Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores .
1969 – Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon 's surface.
1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution , thus becoming a Republic , changes its name to Sri Lanka , and joins the Commonwealth of Nations .
1972 – Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting by the Official Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave who happened to be a local Catholic, William Best.
1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut , India.
1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland , New Zealand.
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen .
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations .
1998 – Lewinsky scandal : A federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton .
2002 – African-American Civil Rights Movement : A jury in Birmingham, Alabama , convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church .
2005 – A Presidential election is held in Mongolia; the result is a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP).
2008 – An EF3 tornado destroys the town of Windsor, Colorado just before noon, killing 1 person and injuring 78 others. It destroyed nearly $147 million worth of property, and is the 4th costliest disaster in the history of the State of Colorado.
2010 – An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore , India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri , killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2014 – General Prayut Chan-o-cha of the Royal Thai Armed Forces announces a military coup d'état , following six months of political turmoil.
2014 – An explosion occurs in the city of Ürümqi , the capital of China's far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region , resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2015 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
626 – Itzam K'an Ahk I , Mayan king (d. 686)
1408 – Annamacharya , Hindu saint (d. 1503)
1539 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford , English earl, politician and diplomat (d. 1621)
1558 – Françoise de Cezelli , French soldier (d. 1615)
1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac , French soldier and governor (d. 1698)
1644 – Gabriël Grupello , Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730)
1650 – Richard Brakenburgh , Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702)
1694 – Daniel Gran , Austrian painter (d. 1757)
1700 – Michel-François Dandré-Bardon , French painter and illustrator (d. 1785)
1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)
1733 – Hubert Robert , French painter (d. 1808)
1743 – Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra , Spanish navigator (d. 1794)
1752 – Louis Legendre , French butcher and politician (d. 1797)
1762 – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst , English politician (d. 1834)
1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1777 – Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga , Grandee of Spain (d. 1823)
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy , Indian philosopher and reformer (d. 1833)
1782 – Hirose Tansō , Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856)
1783 – William Sturgeon , English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)
1808 – Gérard de Nerval , French poet and translator (d. 1855)
1811 – Giulia Grisi , Italian soprano (d. 1869)
1811 – Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle , English politician (d. 1864)
1813 – Richard Wagner , German composer (d. 1883)
1814 – Amalia Lindegren , Swedish painter (d. 1891)
1820 – Worthington Whittredge , American painter (d. 1910)
1828 – Albrecht von Graefe , German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870)
1831 – Henry Vandyke Carter , English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897)
1833 – Félix Bracquemond , French painter and etcher (d. 1914)
1833 – Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla , Spanish politician; served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1871-73 (d. 1895)
1837 – Guillaume Fouace , French painter (d. 1895)
1841 – Hamilton Macallum , Scottish painter (d. 1896)
1841 – Catulle Mendès , French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909)
1844 – Mary Cassatt , American painter and educator (d. 1926)
1846 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez , Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908)
1848 – Fritz von Uhde , German painter and educator (d. 1911)
1849 – Aston Webb , English architect and academic (d. 1930)
1850 – Hildegard Thorell , Swedish painter (d. 1930)
1852 – Émile Sauret , French violinist and composer (d. 1920)
1858 – Belmiro de Almeida , Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935)
1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle , British writer (d. 1930)
1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō , Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)
1864 – Willy Stöwer , German author and illustrator (d. 1931)
1868 – Augusto Pestana , Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934)
1874 – Daniel François Malan , South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1876 – Julius Klinger , Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1879 – Warwick Armstrong , Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947)
1879 – Jean Cras , French admiral and composer (d. 1932)
1879 – Symon Petliura , Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926)
1880 – Francis de Miomandre , French author and translator (d. 1959)
1885 – Giacomo Matteotti , Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
1885 – Kansuke Naka , Japanese novelist (d. 1965)
1885 – Soemu Toyoda , Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1887 – Wilhelm Kaisen , German politician (d. 1979)
1891 – Johannes R. Becher , German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958)
1891 – Eddie Edwards , American baseball player and trombonist (d. 1963)
1894 – Friedrich Pollock , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970)
1897 – Marcelle Meyer , French pianist (d. 1958)
1897 – Robert Neumann , German and English-speaking author (d. 1975)
1901 – Maurice J. Tobin , American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)
1902 – Al Simmons , American baseball player and coach (d. 1956)
1903 – Yves Rocard , French physicist and academic (d. 1992)
1904 – Uno Lamm , Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1905 – Bodo von Borries , German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)
1905 – Tom Driberg , British politician (d. 1976)
1907 – Hergé , Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1983)
1907 – Laurence Olivier , English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989)
1908 – Horton Smith . American golfer and captain (d. 1963)
1909 – Margaret Mee , English illustrator and educator (d. 1988)
1911 – Anatol Rapoport , Russian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2007)
1912 – Herbert C. Brown , English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1913 – Rafael Gil , Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 1986)
1913 – Dominique Rolin , Belgian author (d. 2012)
1914 – Max Kohnstamm , Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 2010)
1914 – Sun Ra , American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993)
1916 – William C. Brown , American engineer (d. 1999)
1917 – George Aratani , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1917 – Jean-Louis Curtis , French author (d. 1995)
1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants , Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
1920 – Thomas Gold , Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
1922 – Quinn Martin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)
1924 – Charles Aznavour , French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor
1925 – Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
1927 – Michael Constantine , American actor
1927 – Peter Matthiessen , American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (d. 2014)
1927 – George Andrew Olah , Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
1928 – Serge Doubrovsky , French theorist and author
1928 – John Mackenzie , Scottish director and producer (d. 2011)
1928 – T. Boone Pickens , American businessman
1928 – Hiroshi Sano , Japanese novelist (d. 2013)
1929 – Ahmed Fouad Negm , Egyptian poet (d. 2013)
1930 – Marisol Escobar , French-American sculptor
1930 – Harvey Milk , American lieutenant and politician (d. 1978)
1932 – Robert Spitzer , American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)
1933 – Chen Jingrun , Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
1934 – Peter Nero , American pianist and conductor
1936 – George H. Heilmeier , American engineer (d. 2014)
1937 – Facundo Cabral , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1938 – Richard Benjamin , American actor and director
1938 – Dieter Dengler , German-American aviator
1938 – Susan Strasberg , American actress (d. 1999)
1939 – Paul Winfield , American actor (d. 2004)
1940 – Kieth Merrill , American filmmaker
1940 – Michael Sarrazin , Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1940 – Bernard Shaw , American journalist
1941 – Menzies Campbell , Scottish sprinter and politician
1942 – Ted Kaczynski , American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber )
1942 – Barbara Parkins , Canadian actress
1943 – Tommy John , American baseball player and manager
1943 – Betty Williams , Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – John Flanagan , Australian fantasy author
1946 – George Best , Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1946 – Michael Green , English physicist and academic
1946 – Howard Kendall , English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1946 – Andrei Marga , Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
1948 – Tomás Sánchez , Cuban painter and engraver
1948 – Nedumudi Venu , Indian actor and screenwriter
1949 – Cheryl Campbell , English actress
1949 – Valentin Inzko , Austrian diplomat
1950 – Alekos Alavanos , Greek lawyer and politician
1950 – Irène Frain , French novelist and journalist
1950 – Bernie Taupin , English singer-songwriter and poet
1950 – Bill Whelan , Irish composer and musician
1953 – Peter Bazalgette , English television producer
1953 – Roger Bellon , French composer
1953 – Cha Bum-kun , South Korean footballer and manager
1953 – Paul Mariner , English footballer, coach, and manager
1954 – Shuji Nakamura , Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1957 – Lisa Murkowski , American lawyer and politician
1959 – Morrissey , English singer-songwriter and performer
1959 – Kwak Jae-yong , South Korean director and screenwriter
1959 – Mehbooba Mufti , Indian politician
1960 – Hideaki Anno , Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1962 – Brian Pillman , American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
1965 – Jay Carney , American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
1966 – Johnny Gill , American singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – Wang Xiaoshuai , Chinese director and screenwriter
1968 – Ma Jun , Chinese environmentalist and journalist
1968 – Graham Linehan , Irish comedian, actor, and author
1968 – Simon Rumley , English director and screenwriter
1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers , American lawyer and politician
1970 – Naomi Campbell , English model
1972 – Max Brooks , American author and screenwriter
1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas , Danish actor
1973 – Danny Tiatto , Australian footballer
1974 – Garba Lawal , Nigerian footballer
1974 – Henrietta Ónodi , Hungarian Olympic gymnast
1974 – Arseniy Yatsenyuk , Ukrainian politician
1975 – Salva Ballesta , Spanish footballer and manager
1975 – Cole Hauser , American actor
1976 – Christian Vande Velde , American cyclist
1977 – Dré Bly , American football player
1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin , American actress
1978 – Katie Price , English model, businesswoman, and author
1979 – Maggie Q , American actress
1980 – Nazanin Boniadi , Iranian-American actress
1980 – Lucy Gordon , British actress and model
1981 – Bassel Khartabil , Syrian computer programmer and engineer
1981 – Jürgen Melzer , Austrian tennis player
1981 – Daniel Bryan , American wrestler
1982 – Apolo Ohno , American speed skater
1982 – Hong Yong-jo , North Korean footballer
1983 – Natasha Kai , American soccer player and Olympic medalist
1984 – Didier Ya Konan , Ivorian footballer
1984 – Dustin Moskovitz , American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta , Swiss footballer
1985 – Mauro Boselli , Argentinian footballer
1985 – Tao Okamoto , Japanese model and actress
1986 – Matt Jarvis , English footballer
1986 – Thanduyise Khuboni , South African footballer
1986 – Tatiana Volosozhar , Russian figure skater
1987 – Novak Djokovic , Serbian tennis player
1987 – Vladimir Granat , Russian footballer
1987 – Arturo Vidal , Chilean footballer
1988 – Chase Budinger , American basketball player
1991 – Joel Obi , Nigerian footballer
192 – Dong Zhuo , Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138)
337 – Constantine the Great , Roman emperor (b. 272)
748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683)
1067 – Constantine X , Byzantine Emperor (b. 1006)
1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1310 – Saint Humility , founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns (b. c. 1226)
1409 – Blanche of England , sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset , English commander (b. 1406)
1455 – Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford , Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)
1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland , English commander (b. 1393)
1457 – Rita of Cascia , Italian nun and saint (b. 1381)
1490 – Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent , English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416)
1538 – John Forest , English friar and martyr (b. 1471)
1540 – Francesco Guicciardini , Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)
1545 – Sher Shah Suri , Indian ruler (b. 1486)
1553 – Giovanni Bernardi , Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495)
1602 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
1609 – Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff , Dutch captain (b. 1573)
1666 – Gaspar Schott , German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie , French general (b. 1671)
1760 – Baal Shem Tov , Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)
1772 – Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)
1795 – Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg , Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)
1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah , American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)
1859 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown , American soldier (b. 1829)
1868 – Julius Plücker , German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
1885 – Victor Hugo , French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
1901 – Gaetano Bresci , Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
1910 – Jules Renard , French author and playwright (b. 1864)
1932 – Augusta, Lady Gregory , Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
1933 – Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav , Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
1938 – William Glackens , American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
1939 – Ernst Toller , German playwright and author (b. 1893)
1939 – Jiří Mahen , Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
1954 – Chief Bender , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
1965 – Christopher Stone , English radio host (b. 1882)
1966 – Tom Goddard , English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 – Langston Hughes , American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis , Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
1972 – Margaret Rutherford , English actress (b. 1892)
1975 – Lefty Grove , American baseball player (b. 1900)
1982 – Cevdet Sunay , Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
1983 – Albert Claude , Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman , German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
1988 – Giorgio Almirante , Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
1989 – Steven De Groote , South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
1990 – Rocky Graziano , American boxer (b. 1922)
1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
1991 – Stan Mortensen , English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
1992 – Zellig Harris , American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
1993 – Mieczysław Horszowski , Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
1997 – Alfred Hershey , American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1998 – John Derek , American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
1998 – José Enrique Moyal , Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
2000 – Davie Fulton , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
2004 – Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 – Charilaos Florakis , Greek politician (b. 1914)
2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft , American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2006 – Lee Jong-wook , South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)
2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa , Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
2008 – Robert Asprin , American soldier and author (b. 1946)
2010 – Martin Gardner , American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)
2011 – Joseph Brooks , American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
2012 – Muzafar Bhutto , Pakistani politician (b. 1970)
2012 – Wesley A. Brown , American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
2013 – Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt , Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)
2015 – Marques Haynes , American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 – Vladimir Katriuk , Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921)
2016 – Velimir "Bata" Živojinović , Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
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