July 20 is the 201st day of the year (202nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 164 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
AD 70 – Siege of Jerusalem : Titus , son of emperor Vespasian , storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount . The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots .
792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae .
911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres .
1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy .
1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence : Fall of Stirling Castle : King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf .
1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara : Timur , ruler of Timurid Empire , defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I .
1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea , Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang , although they were ultimately unable to hold it.
1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan .
1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia .
1807 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore , the world's first internal combustion engine , after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1810 – Citizens of Bogotá , New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1848 – The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York , a two-day event, concludes.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek : Near Atlanta, Georgia , Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman .
1866 – Austro-Prussian War : Battle of Lissa : The Austrian Navy , led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea .
1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association .
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1917 – World War I : The Corfu Declaration , which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia , is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1920 – The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference ; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
1932 – In the Preußenschlag ("Prussian coup"), German President Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the government of Prussia
1932 – In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force , who attempt to march to the White House .
1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers , during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 , killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934 – West Coast waterfront strike : In Seattle , police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen . The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland , authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system . The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948 .
1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations .
1940 – California opens its first freeway , the Arroyo Seco Parkway .
1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
1944 – World War II : Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg .
1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war .
1950 – Cold War : In Philadelphia , Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs .
1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem .
1954 – Germany: Otto John , head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany .
1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister , the world's first elected female head of government.
1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington , for the first time.
1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte .
1964 – Vietnam War : Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province , Cái Bè , killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).
1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 11 's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility . Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon (July 21 UTC).
1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador , six days after the beginning of the "Football War ".
1974 – Turkish occupation of Cyprus : Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état , organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios .
1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars .
1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments .
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings : The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles .
1989 – Burma 's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia .
1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides ) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
1999 – The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong , arresting thousands nationwide.
2005 – Canada legalized same-sex marriage, being the fourth country in the world to do so.
2012 – James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado , killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
2013 – Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca .
2015 – A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç , Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
2015 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
356 BC – Alexander the Great , Macedonian king (d. 323 BC)
647 – Yazid I , Arabian caliph (d. 683)
682 – Taichō , Japanese monk and scholar (d. 767)
1304 – Petrarch , Italian poet and scholar (d. 1374)
1313 – John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (d. 1367)
1346 – Margaret, Countess of Pembroke , daughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1361)
1470 – John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath , English noble (d. 1539)
1519 – Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
1537 – Arnaud d'Ossat , French cardinal (d. 1604)
1620 – Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder , Dutch poet and scholar (d. 1681)
1754 – Antoine Destutt de Tracy , French philosopher and academic (d. 1836)
1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze , Georgian politician and diplomat (d. 1811)
1762 – Jakob Haibel , Austrian tenor and composer (d. 1826)
1774 – Auguste de Marmont , French general (d. 1852)
1789 – Mahmud II , Ottoman sultan (d. 1839)
1797 – Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , Polish geologist and explorer (d. 1873)
1804 – Richard Owen , English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (d. 1892)
1822 – Gregor Mendel , Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist (d. 1884)
1838 – Augustin Daly , American playwright and manager (d. 1899)
1838 – Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , English civil servant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1928)
1847 – Max Liebermann , German painter and academic (d. 1935)
1849 – Robert Anderson Van Wyck , American lawyer and politician, 91st Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1852 – Theo Heemskerk , Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1932)
1864 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1864 – Ruggero Oddi , Italian physiologist and anatomist (d. 1913)
1868 – Miron Cristea , Romanian cleric and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1939)
1873 – Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian pilot (d. 1932)
1876 – Otto Blumenthal , German mathematician and academic (d. 1944)
1877 – Tom Crean , Irish sailor and explorer (d. 1938)
1882 – Olga Hahn-Neurath , Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1937)
1889 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith , Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (d. 1971)
1890 – Verna Felton , American actress (d. 1966)
1890 – Julie Vinter Hansen , Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (d. 1960)
1890 – Giorgio Morandi , Italian painter (d. 1964)
1893 – George Llewelyn Davies , English soldier (d. 1915)
1895 – László Moholy-Nagy , Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 – Tadeusz Reichstein , Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1900 – Maurice Leyland , English cricketer and coach (d. 1967)
1901 – Vehbi Koç , Turkish businessman and philanthropist, founded Koç Holding (d. 1996)
1901 – Eugenio Lopez Sr. , Filipino businessman and founder of the Lopez Group of Companies (d. 1975)
1901 – Heinie Manush , American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1909 – Eric Rowan , South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1910 – Vilém Tauský , Czech-English conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 – Baqa Jilani , Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
1911 – José Zabala-Santos , Filipino author and illustrator (d. 1985)
1912 – George Johnston , Australian journalist and author (d. 1970)
1914 – Dobri Dobrev , Bulgarian philanthropist
1914 – Charilaos Florakis , Greek politician (d. 2005)
1914 – Ersilio Tonini , Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
1918 – Cindy Walker , American singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 2006)
1919 – Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
1920 – Elliot Richardson , American lieutenant and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1999)
1921 – Henri Alleg , English-French journalist and author (d. 2013)
1922 – Alan Stephenson Boyd , American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
1923 – Stanisław Albinowski , Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 – Lola Albright , American actress and singer
1924 – Thomas Berger , American author and playwright (d. 2014)
1924 – Mort Garson , Canadian-American songwriter and composer (d. 2008)
1925 – Jacques Delors , French economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission
1925 – Frantz Fanon , French–Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
1927 – Barbara Bergmann , American economist and academic (d. 2015)
1927 – Heather Chasen , English actress
1927 – Michael Gielen , Austrian conductor and composer
1927 – Ian P. Howard , English-Canadian psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
1928 – Józef Czyrek , Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2013)
1928 – Peter Ind , English bassist and producer
1929 – Hazel Hawke , Australian social worker and pianist, 23rd Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2013)
1929 – Mike Ilitch , American businessman, co-founded Little Caesars
1929 – Rajendra Kumar , Pakistani-Indian actor and producer (d. 1999)
1930 – Giannis Agouris , Greek journalist and author (d. 2006)
1930 – Chuck Daly , American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
1930 – William H. Goetzmann , American historian and author (d. 2010)
1930 – Sally Ann Howes , English-American singer and actress
1931 – Tony Marsh , English race car driver (d. 2009)
1932 – Dick Giordano , American illustrator (d. 2010)
1932 – Nam June Paik , South Korean-American director and educator (d. 2006)
1932 – Otto Schily , German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
1933 – Buddy Knox , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1933 – Cormac McCarthy , American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
1935 – Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo , English businessman and art collector
1936 – Alistair MacLeod , Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2014)
1936 – Barbara Mikulski , American social worker and politician
1938 – Deniz Baykal , Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
1938 – Roger Hunt , English footballer
1938 – Tony Oliva , Cuban-American baseball player and coach
1938 – Diana Rigg , English actress
1938 – Natalie Wood , American actress (d. 1981)
1939 – Judy Chicago , American painter and sculptor
1941 – Don Chuy , American football player (d. 2014)
1941 – Periklis Korovesis , Greek author and journalist
1941 – Kurt Raab , German actor, screenwriter, and production designer (d. 1988)
1942 – Pete Hamilton , American race car racer
1943 – Chris Amon , New Zealand race car driver
1943 – Bob McNab , English footballer
1943 – Adrian Păunescu , Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (d. 2010)
1943 – Wendy Richard , English actress (d. 2009)
1944 – Mel Daniels , American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1944 – Olivier de Kersauson , French sailor
1945 – Kim Carnes , American singer-songwriter
1945 – Larry Craig , American soldier and politician
1945 – John Lodge , English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1945 – Johnny Loughrey , Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1945 – Bo Rein , American football player and coach (d. 1980)
1946 – Randal Kleiser , American actor, director, and producer
1947 – Gerd Binnig , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Carlos Santana , Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Muse Watson , American actor and producer
1950 – Edward Leigh , English lawyer and politician
1951 – Jeff Rawle , English actor and screenwriter
1953 – Dave Evans , Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter
1953 – Thomas Friedman , American journalist and author
1954 – Moira Harris , American actress
1954 – Jay Jay French , American guitarist and producer
1955 – Desmond Douglas , Jamaican-English table tennis player
1955 – René-Daniel Dubois , Canadian actor and playwright
1955 – Jem Finer , English banjo player and songwriter
1956 – Paul Cook , English drummer
1956 – Jim Prentice , Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
1956 – Barbara Risman , American sociologist and academic
1958 – Mick MacNeil , Scottish keyboard player and songwriter
1959 – Radney Foster , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Claudio Langes , Italian race car driver
1960 – Prvoslav Vujčić , Serbian-Canadian poet and philosopher
1961 – Óscar Elías Biscet , Cuban physician and activist, founded the Lawton Foundation
1962 – Carlos Alazraqui , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1962 – Giovanna Amati , Italian race car driver
1962 – Julie Bindel , English journalist, author, and academic
1964 – Chris Cornell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964 – Terri Irwin , American-Australian zoologist and author
1964 – Bernd Schneider , German race car driver
1965 – Jess Walter , American journalist and author
1966 – Stone Gossard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 – Enrique Peña Nieto , Mexican lawyer and politician, 57th President of Mexico
1967 – Courtney Taylor-Taylor , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Jimmy Carson , American ice hockey player
1968 – Hami Mandıralı , Turkish footballer and manager
1968 – Carlos Saldanha , Brazilian-American director, screenwriter, and voice actor
1968 – Kool G Rap , American hip-hop artist
1969 – Josh Holloway , American actor
1969 – Kreso Kovacec , Croatian-German footballer
1969 – Giovanni Lombardi , Italian cyclist
1969 – Tobi Vail , American singer and guitarist
1971 – Charles Johnson , American baseball player
1971 – Sandra Oh , Canadian actress
1972 – Jamie Ainscough , Australian rugby player
1972 – Vitamin C , American singer-songwriter
1972 – Jozef Stümpel , Slovak ice hockey player
1972 – Erik Ullenhag , Swedish jurist and politician
1973 – Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
1973 – Omar Epps , American actor
1973 – Peter Forsberg , Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1973 – Nixon McLean , Caribbean cricketer
1973 – Roberto Orci , Mexican-American screenwriter and producer
1973 – Claudio Reyna , American soccer player
1973 – Mads Rieper , Danish footballer and manager
1974 – Bengie Molina , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
1975 – Ray Allen , American basketball player and actor
1975 – Judy Greer , American actress and producer
1975 – Erik Hagen , Norwegian footballer
1975 – Birgitta Ohlsson , Swedish journalist and politician, 5th Swedish Minister for European Union Affairs
1975 – Yusuf Şimşek , Turkish footballer and manager
1976 – Erica Hill , American journalist
1976 – Debashish Mohanty , Indian cricketer and coach
1976 – Andrew Stockdale , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Alex Yoong , Malaysian race car driver
1977 – Kiki Musampa , Congolese footballer
1977 – Yves Niaré , French shot putter (d. 2012)
1977 – Alessandro Santos , Brazilian-Japanese footballer
1978 – Pavel Datsyuk , Russian ice hockey player
1978 – André Bankoff , Brazilian actor
1978 – Chris Sligh , American singer-songwriter and producer
1978 – Will Solomon , American basketball player
1978 – Elliott Yamin , American singer-songwriter
1978 – Ieva Zunda , Latvian runner and hurdler
1979 – Miklós Fehér , Hungarian footballer (d. 2004)
1979 – Charlotte Hatherley , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – David Ortega , Spanish swimmer
1980 – Tesfaye Bramble , English-Montserratian footballer
1980 – Gisele Bündchen , Brazilian model, fashionista, and businesswoman
1981 – Lowkey , American rapper and producer
1981 – Damien Delaney , Irish footballer
1981 – Thorsten Engelmann , German rower
1981 – Viktoria Ladõnskaja , Estonian journalist and politician
1982 – Antoine Vermette , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Alexi Casilla , Dominican baseball player
1984 – Matt Gilroy , American ice hockey player
1985 – John Francis Daley , American actor and screenwriter
1985 – David Mundy , Australian footballer
1986 – Osric Chau , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Nicola Benedetti , Scottish violinist
1987 – Niall McGinn , Irish footballer
1988 – Julianne Hough , American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
1988 – Stephen Strasburg , American baseball player
1989 – Javier Cortés , Mexican footballer
1989 – Cristian Pasquato , Italian footballer
1990 – Lars Unnerstall , German footballer
1991 – Philipp Reiter , German mountaineer and runner
1991 – Andrew Shaw , Canadian ice hockey player
833 – Ansegisus , Frankish abbot (or 834 )
940 – Ibn Muqla , Iraqi calligrapher and court official (b. 885)
985 – Antipope Boniface VII (b. 930)
1031 – Robert II of France (b. 972)
1156 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1320 – Oshin, King of Armenia (b. 1282)
1332 – Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray , regent of Scotland
1387 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1356)
1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March , Welsh nobleman (b. 1374)
1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet , French historian and author (b. 1400)
1454 – John II of Castile (b. 1405)
1524 – Claude of France (b. 1499)
1616 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone , Irish nobleman and rebel soldier (b. 1550)
1704 – Peregrine White , English-American farmer and soldier (b. 1620)
1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch , German-English composer and theorist (b. 1667)
1816 – Gavrila Derzhavin , Russian poet and politician (b. 1743)
1866 – Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician and academic (b. 1826)
1897 – Jean Ingelow , English poet and author (b. 1820)
1901 – William Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 – Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
1908 – Demetrius Vikelas , Greek businessman and author (b. 1835)
1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz , German geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1881)
1922 – Andrey Markov , Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
1923 – Pancho Villa , Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
1926 – Felix Dzerzhinsky , Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
1927 – Ferdinand I of Romania (b. 1865)
1928 – Kostas Karyotakis , Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
1932 – René Bazin , French author and academic (b. 1853)
1937 – Olga Hahn-Neurath , Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
1937 – Guglielmo Marconi , Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1941 – Lew Fields , American actor and producer (b. 1867)
1944 – Ludwig Beck , German general (b. 1880)
1945 – Paul Valéry , French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 – Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
1953 – Dumarsais Estimé , Haitian lawyer and politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 – Jan Struther , English author and hymn-writer (b. 1901)
1955 – Calouste Gulbenkian , Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
1956 – James Alexander Calder , Canadian educator and politician, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence (b. 1868)
1959 – William D. Leahy , American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (b. 1875)
1965 – Batukeshwar Dutt , Indian activist (b. 1910)
1968 – Bray Hammond , American historian and author (b. 1886)
1970 – Iain Macleod , English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1913)
1972 – Geeta Dutt , Indian singer and actress (b. 1930)
1973 – Bruce Lee , American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973 – Robert Smithson , American photographer and sculptor (b. 1938)
1974 – Allen Jenkins , American actor and singer (b. 1900)
1976 – Joseph Rochefort , American captain and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
1977 – Gary Kellgren , American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
1980 – Maria Martinez , San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (b. 1887)
1981 – Kostas Choumis , Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
1983 – Frank Reynolds , American soldier and journalist (b. 1923)
1987 – Richard Egan , American soldier and actor (b. 1921)
1989 – Forrest H. Anderson , American judge and politician, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)
1990 – Herbert Turner Jenkins , American police officer (b. 1907)
1993 – Vince Foster , American lawyer and political figure (b. 1945)
1994 – Paul Delvaux , Belgian painter (b. 1897)
1998 – June Byers , American wrestler (b. 1922)
1997 – M. E. H. Maharoof , Sri Lankan politician (b. 1939)
1999 – Sandra Gould , American actress (b. 1916)
2002 – Michalis Kritikopoulos Greek footballer (b. 1946)
2003 – Nicolas Freeling , English author (b. 1927)
2004 – Lala Mara , Fijian politician (b. 1931)
2004 – Valdemaras Martinkėnas , Lithuanian footballer and coach (b. 1965)
2005 – James Doohan , Canadian-American actor (b. 1920)
2005 – Finn Gustavsen , Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
2005 – Kayo Hatta , American director and cinematographer (b. 1958)
2006 – Ted Grant , South African-English theorist and activist (b. 1913)
2006 – Gérard Oury , French actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
2007 – Tammy Faye Messner , American Christian evangelist and talk show host (b. 1942)
2008 – Artie Traum , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
2009 – Vedat Okyar , Turkish footballer (b. 1945)
2009 – Mark Rosenzweig , American psychologist and academic (b. 1922)
2011 – Lucian Freud , German-English painter and illustrator (b. 1922)
2012 – Alastair Burnet , English journalist (b. 1928)
2012 – Jack Davis , American hurdler (b. 1930)
2012 – José Hermano Saraiva , Portuguese historian, jurist, and politician, Portuguese Minister of Education (b. 1919)
2013 – Pierre Fabre , French pharmacist and businessman, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (b. 1926)
2013 – Khurshed Alam Khan , Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Goa (b. 1919)
2013 – Augustus Rowe , Canadian physician and politician (b. 1920)
2013 – Helen Thomas , American journalist and author (b. 1920)
2014 – Victor G. Atiyeh , American businessman and politician, 32nd Governor of Oregon (b. 1923)
2014 – Constantin Lucaci , Romanian sculptor and educator (b. 1923)
2014 – Bob McNamara , American football player (b. 1931)
2014 – Klaus Schmidt , German archaeologist and academic (b. 1953)
2015 – Theodore Bikel , Austrian-American actor and musician (b. 1924)
2015 – Wayne Carson , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
2015 – Fred Else , English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
2015 – Dieter Moebius , Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (b. 1944)
2016 – Radu Beligan , Romanian actor, director, and essayist (b. 1918)
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