October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 74 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).
320 – Pappus of Alexandria , Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest ).
614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii ), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom .
629 – Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks .
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , a Christian church in Jerusalem , is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock .
1016 – The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun .
1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium .
1356 – Basel earthquake , the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel , Switzerland.
1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto 's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-day Alabama , killing Tuskaloosa .
1561 – In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima was fought between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen ; resulting in a draw.
1565 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay , the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.
1599 – Michael the Brave , Prince of Wallachia , defeats the Army of Andrew Báthory in the Battle of Șelimbăr , leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first American labor organization .
1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession .
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1775 – American Revolutionary War : The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine ).
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1851 – Herman Melville 's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin , an unequal treaty .
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day .
1898 – The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1912 – First Balkan War : King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany .
1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium , to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law .
1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany .
1944 – World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm Germany.
1945 – The USSR 's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory .
1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud , stages a coup d'état against president Isaías Medina Angarita , who is overthrown by the end of the day.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Duarte .
1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio .
1963 – Félicette , a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
1977 – German Autumn : a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1979 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union .
2003 – Bolivian gas conflict : Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada , is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 – Karachi bombing : A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1130 – Zhu Xi , Chinese philosopher (d. 1200)
1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
1444 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (d. 1476)
1482 – Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1538)
1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1570)
1547 – Justus Lipsius , Belgian philologist and scholar (d. 1606)
1569 – Giambattista Marino , Italian poet (d. 1625)
1634 – Luca Giordano , Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1705)
1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck , South African-Dutch merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
1662 – Matthew Henry , Welsh minister and scholar (d. 1714)
1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy (d. 1736)
1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr. , American witness in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
1701 – Charles le Beau , French historian and author (d. 1778)
1706 – Baldassare Galuppi , Italian harpsichord player and composer (d. 1785)
1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos , French general and author (d. 1803)
1777 – Heinrich von Kleist , German author and poet (d. 1811)
1785 – Thomas Love Peacock , English author and poet (d. 1866)
1792 – Lucas Alamán , conservative Mexican politician and historian (d. 1853)
1804 – Mongkut , Thai king (d. 1868)
1822 – Midhat Pasha , Ottoman civil servant and politician, 238th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1883)
1831 – Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz , American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
1850 – Basil Hall Chamberlain , English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (d. 1935)
1854 – Billy Murdoch , Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1859 – Henri Bergson , French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat , Ottoman general (d. 1952)
1865 – Arie de Jong , Dutch linguist and author (d. 1957)
1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith , American-English author and critic (d. 1946)
1868 – Ernst Didring , Swedish author (d. 1931)
1870 – D. T. Suzuki , Japanese author and scholar (d. 1966)
1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin , Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi , Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
1875 – Len Braund , English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1955)
1878 – James Truslow Adams , American historian and author (d. 1949)
1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky , Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist (d. 1940)
1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton , French cyclist (d. 1917)
1885 – Amleto Novelli , Italian actor (d. 1924)
1887 – Takashi Sakai , Japanese general and politician, Governor of Hong Kong (d. 1946)
1888 – Paul Vermoyal , French actor (d. 1925)
1893 – Sidney Holland , New Zealand lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1961)
1893 – George Ohsawa , Japanese philosopher and academic (d. 1966)
1894 – H. L. Davis , American author and poet (d. 1960)
1894 – Tibor Déry , Hungarian author and translator (d. 1977)
1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers , American theorist and author (d. 1980)
1898 – Lotte Lenya , Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
1902 – Miriam Hopkins , American actress (d. 1972)
1902 – Pascual Jordan , German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
1903 – Lina Radke , German runner and coach (d. 1983)
1904 – A. J. Liebling , American journalist and author (d. 1963)
1904 – Haim Shirman , Ukrainian-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1981)
1905 – Jan Gies , Dutch activist (d. 1993)
1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
1906 – James Brooks , American painter and educator (d. 1992)
1909 – Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
1914 – Raymond Lambert , Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
1915 – Victor Sen Yung , American actor (d. 1980)
1918 – Molly Geertsema , Dutch lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1991)
1918 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 178th Prime Minister of Greece
1918 – Bobby Troup , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
1919 – Ric Nordman , Canadian captain and politician (d. 1996)
1919 – Anita O'Day , American singer (d. 2006)
1919 – Pierre Trudeau , Canadian lawyer, academic, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
1919 – Camilla Williams , American soprano and educator (d. 2012)
1920 – Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer, and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994)
1921 – Jerry Cooke , Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 2005)
1921 – Jesse Helms , American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2008)
1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972)
1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
1924 – Buddy MacMaster , Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2014)
1925 – Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)
1926 – Chuck Berry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1926 – Klaus Kinski , German-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1927 – Marv Rotblatt , American baseball player (d. 2013)
1927 – George C. Scott , American actor and director (d. 1999)
1928 – Keith Jackson , American sportscaster and actor
1928 – Maurice El Mediouni , Algerian pianist and composer
1928 – Dick Taverne , English lawyer and politician
1929 – Violeta Chamorro , Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
1929 – Hillard Elkins , American producer and manager (d. 2010)
1929 – Kees Fens , Dutch author and critic (d. 2008)
1930 – Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun , Scottish politician
1930 – Esther Hautzig , Lithuanian-American author (d. 2009)
1931 – Chris Albertson , Icelandic-American historian, journalist, and producer
1931 – Roger Climpson , English-Australian journalist
1931 – Ien Dales , Dutch civil servant and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1994)
1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis , Lithuanian musicologist and politician
1933 – Forrest Gregg , American football player and coach
1933 – Irwin M. Jacobs , American electrical engineer, businessman, and entrepreneur
1933 – Ludovico Scarfiotti , Italian race car driver (d. 1968)
1934 – Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress (d. 1970)
1934 – Chuck Swindoll , American pastor, author, and educator
1935 – Peter Boyle , American actor (d. 2006)
1936 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino , Cuban cardinal
1938 – Robert Dove , American lawyer and politician
1938 – Dawn Wells , American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
1939 – Flavio Cotti , Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation
1939 – Mike Ditka , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald , American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1939 – Jan Erik Vold , Norwegian poet, author, and translator
1940 – Cynthia Weil , American songwriter
1941 – Timothy Bell, Baron Bell , English businessman
1941 – Martha Burk , American psychologist and author
1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi , Italian cardinal and scholar
1943 – Christine Charbonneau , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech , Danish police officer and politician, Danish Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
1945 – Huell Howser , American television host and actor (d. 2013)
1945 – Chris Shays , American politician
1946 – James Robert Baker , American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1946 – Frank Beamer , American football player and coach
1946 – Dafydd Elis-Thomas , Welsh academic and politician
1946 – Howard Shore , Canadian composer, conductor, and producer
1947 – Paul Chuckle , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1947 – Job Cohen , Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
1947 – Joe Morton , American actor
1947 – Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
1947 – Gary Sullivan , Australian rugby league player
1948 – Hans Köchler , Austrian philosopher, author, and academic
1948 – Ntozake Shange , American author, poet, and playwright
1949 – Joe Egan , Scottish singer-songwriter
1949 – George Hendrick , American baseball player and coach
1949 – Gary Richrath , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1950 – Wendy Wasserstein , American playwright and author (d. 2006)
1951 – Mike Antonovich , American ice hockey player and coach
1951 – Pam Dawber , American actress and producer
1951 – Terry McMillan , American author and screenwriter
1951 – David Normington , English civil servant and politician
1951 – Nic Potter , English bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1952 – Roy Dias , Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1952 – Paul Geroski , American-English economist and academic (d. 2005)
1952 – Chuck Lorre , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Patrick Morrow , Canadian mountaineer and photographer
1952 – Bảo Ninh , Vietnamese soldier and author
1952 – Allen Ripley , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1952 – Jerry Royster , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1954 – Nick Houghton , English general
1954 – Arliss Howard , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier , Belgian journalist and television host (d. 2012)
1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1955 – Timmy Mallett , English radio and television host
1955 – Stu Mead , American painter and illustrator
1955 – David Twohy , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Rita Verdonk , Dutch journalist and politician, Dutch Minister of Justice
1955 – Denis Watson , Zimbabwean golfer
1955 – Mark Welland , English physicist and academic
1956 – Craig Bartlett , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1956 – Martina Navratilova , Czech-American tennis player and coach
1956 – Jim Talent , American lawyer and politician
1957 – Jon Lindstrom , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Catherine Ringer , French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1958 – Thomas Hearns , American boxer
1958 – Megumi Ishii , Japanese actress and politician
1958 – Kjell Samuelsson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1959 – Kirby Chambliss , American pilot
1959 – Tatyana Kolpakova , Kyrgyzstani long jumper and coach
1959 – Milcho Manchevski , Macedonian-American director and screenwriter
1959 – John Nord , American wrestler
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian martial artist, actor, and producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Erin Moran , American actress
1961 – Wynton Marsalis , American trumpet player, composer, and educator
1961 – Rick Moody , American author and composer
1961 – Gladstone Small , Barbadian-English cricketer
1962 – Min Ko Naing , Burmese activist
1962 – Vincent Spano , American actor, director, and producer
1963 – Sigvart Dagsland , Norwegian singer, pianist and composer
1964 – Dan Lilker , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1964 – Charles Stross , English journalist, author, and programmer
1965 – Curtis Stigers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Dave Price , American journalist and game show host
1966 – Angela Visser , Dutch model and actress, Miss Universe 1989
1967 – Eric Stuart , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
1968 – Lisa Chappell , New Zealand actress and singer
1968 – Narendra Hirwani , Indian cricketer
1968 – Stuart Law , Australian cricketer and coach
1968 – Michael Stich , German tennis player and sportscaster
1969 – Volker Neumüller , German talent manager
1969 – Nelson Vivas , Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1970 – Doug Mirabelli , American baseball player and coach
1970 – Mike Starink , Dutch television host and actor
1971 – Nick O'Hern , Australian golfer
1972 – Mika Ninagawa , Japanese photographer and director
1972 – Alex Tagliani , Canadian race car driver
1973 – Stephen Allan , Australian golfer
1973 – James Foley , American photographer and journalist (d. 2014)
1973 – Michalis Kapsis , Greek footballer
1973 – Rachel Nichols , American journalist and sportscaster
1973 – Sarah Winckless , English rower
1974 – Robbie Savage , Welsh footballer and sportscaster
1974 – Peter Svensson , Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1975 – Alex Cora , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and sportscaster
1977 – Flavia Colgan , Brazilian-American journalist
1977 – Kunal Kapoor , Indian actor
1977 – Ryan Nelsen , New Zealand-American soccer player and coach
1977 – David Vuillemin , French motorcycle racer
1978 – Mike Tindall , English rugby player
1978 – Kenji Wu , Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
1979 – Jaroslav Drobný , Czech footballer
1979 – Hikaru Kawamura , Japanese model
1980 – Birsen Yavuz , Turkish sprinter and hurdler
1981 – Nathan Hauritz , Australian cricketer
1981 – Tina Hergold , Slovenian tennis player
1981 – Greg Warren , American football player
1982 – Thierry Amiel , French singer-songwriter
1982 – Michael Dingsdag , Dutch footballer
1982 – Mark Sampson , Welsh footballer and manager
1982 – Simon Gotch , American wrestler
1983 – Dante , Brazilian footballer
1984 – Robert Harting , German discus thrower
1984 – Freida Pinto , Indian actress and model
1984 – Esperanza Spalding , American singer-songwriter and bassist
1984 – Lindsey Vonn , American skier
1984 – Milo Yiannopoulos , British journalist and public speaker
1985 – Yoenis Céspedes , Cuban baseball player
1985 – Andrew Garcia , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986 – Wilma Elles , German actress and fashion designer
1987 – Zac Efron , American actor and singer
1988 – Tessa Schram , Dutch director and actress
1989 – Riisa Naka , Japanese model and actress
1990 – Drew Crawford , American basketball player
1991 – Roly Bonevacia , Dutch footballer
AD 31 – Lucius Aelius Sejanus , Roman politician (b. 20 BC)
325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
707 – Pope John VII (b. 650)
1035 – Sancho III of Pamplona (b. 992)
1081 – Nikephoros Palaiologos , Byzantine general
1101 – Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)
1141 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
1214 – John de Gray , bishop of Norwich
1366 – Petrus Torkilsson , Archbishop of Uppsala
1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond , Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (b. 1331)
1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)
1442 – Infante João of Portugal (b. 1400)
1480 – Uhwudong , Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
1541 – Margaret Tudor , queen of James IV of Scotland (born 1489 )
1545 – John Taverner , English organist and composer (b. 1490)
1558 – Mary of Hungary (b. 1505)
1561 – Yamamoto Kansuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1501)
1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius , Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega , Portuguese-Brazilian priest and missionary (b. 1517)
1604 – Igram van Achelen , Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1528)
1646 – Isaac Jogues , French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1607)
1667 – Fasilides , Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
1678 – Jacob Jordaens , Belgian painter illustrator (b. 1593)
1739 – António José da Silva , Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby , English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1721)
1775 – Christian August Crusius , German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul , French pianist and composer (b. 1763)
1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1871 – Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
1876 – Francis Preston Blair , American journalist (b. 1791)
1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold , German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
1889 – Antonio Meucci , Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
1892 – William W. Chapman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
1893 – Charles Gounod , French composer and educator (b. 1818)
1908 – Nozu Michitsura , Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
1911 – Alfred Binet , French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
1931 – Thomas Edison , American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1935 – Gaston Lachaise , French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
1942 – Mikhail Nesterov , Russian painter (b. 1862)
1947 – Michiaki Kamada , Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch , German field marshal (b. 1881)
1956 – Yoshio Markino , Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
1959 – Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)
1961 – Tsuru Aoki , Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
1962 – Iván Petrovich , Serbian-German actor and singer (b. 1894)
1965 – Henry Travers , Irish-American actor (b. 1874)
1966 – Elizabeth Arden , Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
1966 – S. S. Kresge , American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson , American publisher, founded The Little Review (b. 1886)
1973 – Walt Kelly , American illustrator and animator (b. 1913)
1973 – Leo Strauss , German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1899)
1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana , Indian poet and author (b. 1895)
1977 – Andreas Baader , German militant (b. 1943)
1977 – Gudrun Ensslin , German militant leader, founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1940)
1978 – Ramón Mercader , Spanish journalist, assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
1980 – Edwin Way Teale , American photographer and author (b. 1899)
1982 – Dwain Esper , American director and producer (b. 1892)
1982 – Pierre Mendès France , French lawyer and politician, 143rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
1982 – John Robarts , Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
1982 – Bess Truman , American wife of Harry S. Truman , 40th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán , Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
1983 – Willie Jones , American baseball player (b. 1925)
1984 – Henri Michaux , French painter and poet (b. 1899)
1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst , Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
1988 – Frederick Ashton , Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
2000 – Julie London , American singer and actress (b. 1926)
2000 – Gwen Verdon , American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
2003 – Preston Smith , American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán , Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
2005 – Johnny Haynes , English-Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
2005 – Bill King , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda , Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
2006 – Anna Russell , English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
2006 – Laurie Taitt , Guyanese-English hurdler (b. 1934)
2007 – Alan Coren , English journalist and author (b. 1938)
2007 – William J. Crowe , American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2007 – Vincent DeDomenico , American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
2007 – Lucky Dube , South African singer-songwriter and keyboard player (b. 1964)
2008 – Dee Dee Warwick , American singer (b. 1945)
2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt , Dutch ethologist and biologist (b. 1918)
2009 – Nancy Spero , American painter and academic (b. 1926)
2010 – Marion Brown , American saxophonist and musicologist (b. 1931)
2012 – Brain Damage , American wrestler (b. 1977)
2012 – Sylvia Kristel , Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Slater Martin , American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2012 – George Mattos , American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi , American pilot and businessman, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
2012 – David S. Ware , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
2013 – Tom Foley , American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1929)
2013 – Bum Phillips , American football player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 – Allan Stanley , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2013 – Bill Young , American sergeant and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Paul Craft , American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2014 – Mariano Lebrón Saviñón , Dominican author and academic (b. 1922)
2014 – Edward Regan , American academic and politician (b. 1930)
2014 – Sidney Shapiro , American-Chinese author and translator (b. 1915)
2015 – Robert Dickerson , Australian painter (b. 1924)
2015 – Gamal El-Ghitani , Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1945)
2015 – Robert W. Farquhar , American engineer (b. 1932)
2015 – Frank Watkins , American bass player (b. 1968)
2015 – Paul West , English-American author, poet, and academic (b. 1930)
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