May 24
Day of the year
May 24 is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 221 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1607 – Jamestown , the first permanent English colony in North America , is founded.[1]
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan .
1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands , starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance .
1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford , England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics .
1738 – John Wesley is converted , essentially launching the Methodist movement ; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida , leading the invasion of Venezuela , and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1822 – Battle of Pichincha : Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito .
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference .
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail , in Baltimore , Maryland , to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.[2]
1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas .
1861 – American Civil War : Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia , with Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth becoming the first Union officer to be killed during the war.[3]
1873 – Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.[4]
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1900 – Second Boer War : The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State .
1901–present
1915 – World War I : Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary , joining the conflict on the side of the Allies .
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory , becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio , with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field .
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin , NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán , Mexico.
1941 – World War II : Battle of the Atlantic : In the Battle of the Denmark Strait , the German battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy , HMS Hood , killing all but three crewmen.
1944 – Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II .[5] [6]
1944 – Congress of Përmet occurs which establishes a provisional government in Albania in areas under partisan control, the first independent Albanian government since 1939 . In honor of this the national emblem of Albania inscribed this date from 1946 until 1992.[7]
1948 – Arab–Israeli War : Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai , but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano , Switzerland.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service .
1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake , the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt .
1961 – American civil rights movement : Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi , for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1962 – Project Mercury : American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule .
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel .
1967 – Belle de Jour , directed by Luis Buñuel , is released.[8]
1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine .
1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera , his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha .
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr : Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War .
1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988 , a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality , is enacted.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon , evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon , resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1992 – The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac , Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia .
1993 – Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.[9]
1994 – Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1995 – While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom , Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Dunkeswick , North Yorkshire , killing all 12 people on board.[10]
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague , Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo .
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty .
2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey , injuring 324 people.
2014 – At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium .
2019 – Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India ).[11]
2019 – Under pressure over her handling of Brexit , British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.
2022 – A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas , United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.[12]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1616 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale , Scottish politician, Secretary of State, Scotland (d. 1682)
1628 – Marek Sobieski , Polish noble (d. 1652)
1669 – Emerentia von Düben , Swedish royal favorite (d. 1743)
1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736)
1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea , English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769)
1743 – Jean-Paul Marat , Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793)[14]
1789 – Cathinka Buchwieser , German operatic singer and actress (d. 1828)
1794 – William Whewell , English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
1803 – Alexander von Nordmann , Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866)
1810 – Abraham Geiger , German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
1816 – Emanuel Leutze , German-American painter (d. 1868)
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)[15]
1830 – Alexei Savrasov , Russian painter and academic (d. 1897)
1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero , English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934)
1861 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland , Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1940)
1863 – George Grey Barnard , American sculptor (d. 1938)
1868 – Charlie Taylor , American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo , American lawyer and judge (d. 1938)
1870 – Jan Smuts , South African lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
1875 – Robert Garrett , American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1961)
1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth , American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972)
1879 – H. B. Reese , American candy maker, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (d. 1956)
1886 – Paul Paray , French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
1887 – Mick Mannock , Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1891 – William F. Albright , American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971)
1892 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis , American author and educator (d. 1958)[16]
1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. , American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d. 1979)
1899 – Suzanne Lenglen , French tennis player (d. 1938)
1899 – Henri Michaux , Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)
1900 – Eduardo De Filippo , Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1901–present
1901 – José Nasazzi , Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 1968)
1902 – Lionel Conacher , Canadian football player and politician (d. 1954)
1902 – Sylvia Daoust , Canadian sculptor (d. 2004)
1904 – Chūhei Nambu , Japanese jumper and journalist (d. 1997)[17]
1905 – George Nakashima , American woodworker and architect[18] (d. 1990)
1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov , Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1909 – Wilbur Mills , American banker and politician (d. 1992)
1910 – Jimmy Demaret , American golfer (d. 1983)
1913 – Joe Abreu , American baseball player and soldier (d. 1993)
1914 – Lilli Palmer , German-American actress (d. 1986)
1916 – Roden Cutler , Australian lieutenant and politician, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)
1917 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , English lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
1918 – Coleman Young , American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (d. 1997)
1922 – Siobhán McKenna , Irish actress (d. 1986)
1924 – Philip Pearlstein , American soldier and painter (d. 2022)
1925 – Carmine Infantino , American illustrator and educator (d. 2013)
1925 – Mai Zetterling , Swedish actress and director (d. 1994)
1926 – Stanley Baxter , Scottish actor and screenwriter
1928 – William Trevor , Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (d. 2016)
1932 – Arnold Wesker , English playwright and producer (d. 2016)
1933 – Jane Byrne , American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)
1933 – Réal Giguère , Canadian television host and actor (d. 2019)
1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein , French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015)
1935 – Joan Micklin Silver , American director and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1936 – Harold Budd , American composer and poet (d. 2020)
1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur , French runner and educator (d. 2008)
1937 – Archie Shepp , American saxophonist and composer
1938 – Prince Buster , Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
1938 – Tommy Chong , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1940 – Joseph Brodsky , Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1941 – Bob Dylan , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham , English academic and politician (d. 2018)
1942 – Ali Bacher , South African cricketer and manager
1942 – Hannu Mikkola , Finnish race car driver (d. 2021)
1942 – Ichirō Ozawa , Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs
1943 – Gary Burghoff , American actor
1944 – Patti LaBelle , American singer-songwriter and actress
1944 – Dominique Lavanant , French actress
1945 – Terry Callier , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1945 – Steven Norris , English engineer and politician
1945 – Richard Ottaway , English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1945 – Priscilla Presley , American actress and businesswoman
1946 – Tansu Çiller , Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey [19]
1946 – Jesualdo Ferreira , Portuguese footballer and manager
1946 – Irena Szewińska , Russian-Polish sprinter (d. 2018)
1947 – Albert Bouchard , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1947 – Mike De Leon , Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer
1947 – Mike Reid , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and American football player
1947 – Waddy Wachtel , American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer
1947 – Martin Winterkorn , German businessman
1948 – Richard Dembo , French director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1949 – Jim Broadbent , English actor
1949 – Roger Deakins , English cinematographer
1953 – Alfred Molina , English actor
1955 – Rosanne Cash , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Philippe Lafontaine , Belgian singer and songwriter
1955 – Rajesh Roshan , Indian composer
1956 – R. B. Bernstein , American constitutional historian (d. 2023)
1956 – Larry Blackmon , American singer-songwriter and producer
1956 – Dominic Grieve , English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1956 – Michael Jackson , Irish archbishop
1958 – Chip Ganassi , American race car driver, team owner and businessman
1959 – Pelle Lindbergh , Swedish-American ice hockey player (d. 1985)
1959 – Barry O'Farrell , Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales
1960 – Guy Fletcher , English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Bill Harrigan , Australian rugby league referee and sportscaster
1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas , English actress
1961 – Lorella Cedroni , Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2013)
1961 – Alain Lemieux , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Héctor Camacho , Puerto Rican-American boxer (d. 2012)
1962 – Gene Anthony Ray , American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003)
1963 – Ivan Capelli , Italian race car driver and sportscaster
1963 – Michael Chabon , American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1963 – Joe Dumars , American basketball player
1963 – Rich Rodriguez , American football player and coach
1963 – Valerie Taylor , American computer scientist and educator
1964 – Liz McColgan , Scottish educator and runner
1964 – Adrian Moorhouse , English swimmer
1964 – Isidro Pérez , Mexican boxer (d. 2013)
1964 – Pat Verbeek , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1965 – John C. Reilly , American actor
1965 – Shinichirō Watanabe , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Éric Cantona , French footballer, manager, and actor
1966 – Ricky Craven , American race car driver and sportscaster
1967 – Tamer Karadağlı , Turkish actor
1967 – Andrey Borodin , Russian-English economist and businessman
1967 – Eric Close , American actor
1967 – Heavy D , Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2011)
1967 – Carlos Hernández , Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
1969 – Martin McCague , Northern Irish-English cricketer
1969 – Jacob Rees-Mogg , English politician
1969 – Rich Robinson , American guitarist and songwriter
1969 – Mandar Agashe , Indian music director and businessman[20]
1971 – Kris Draper , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1972 – Greg Berlanti , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Rodrigo , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
1973 – Bartolo Colón , Dominican-American baseball player
1973 – Shirish Kunder , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Vladimír Šmicer , Czech footballer and manager
1974 – Sébastien Foucan , French runner and actor
1974 – Masahide Kobayashi , Japanese baseball player and coach
1974 – Magnus Manske , German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki
1975 – Will Sasso , Canadian actor and comedian
1975 – Marc Gagnon , Canadian speed skater
1975 – Giannis Goumas , Greek footballer and coach
1975 – Maria Lawson , English singer-songwriter
1976 – Alessandro Cortini , Italian-American singer and keyboard player
1976 – Catherine Cox , New Zealand-Australian netball player
1976 – Silje Vige , Norwegian singer
1977 – Jeet Gannguli , Indian score composer, music director and singer
1978 – Elijah Burke , American wrestler
1978 – Johan Holmqvist , Swedish ice hockey player
1978 – Brad Penny , American baseball player
1978 – Rose , French singer, songwriter and composer
1979 – Tracy McGrady , American basketball player
1979 – Kareem McKenzie , American football player
1980 – Jason Babin , American football player
1980 – Anthony Minichiello , Australian rugby league player
1981 – Andy Lee , Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed , Ghanaian footballer
1982 – Rian Wallace , American football player
1983 – Custódio Castro , Portuguese footballer
1983 – Pedram Javaheri , Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
1983 – Woo Seung-yeon , South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)
1984 – Sarah Hagan , American actress
1984 – Dmitri Kruglov , Estonian footballer
1984 – Masaya Takahashi , Japanese wrestler
1985 – Tim Bridgman , English race car driver
1986 – Mark Ballas , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor
1986 – Giannis Kontoes , Greek footballer
1987 – Guillaume Latendresse , Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Artem Anisimov , Russian ice hockey player
1988 – Monica Lin Brown , American sergeant
1988 – Billy Gilman , American musician[21]
1988 – Lucian Wintrich , American political artist and White House correspondent
1988 – Denis Petrić , Slovenian footballer[22]
1989 – G-Eazy , American rapper[23]
1989 – Andrew Jordan , English race car driver
1989 – Kalin Lucas , American basketball player[24]
1990 – Mattias Ekholm , Swedish ice hockey player
1990 – Joey Logano , American race car driver[25]
1991 – Aled Davies , Welsh discus thrower
1991 – Cody Eakin , Canadian ice hockey player
1992 – Marcus Bettinelli , English footballer[26]
1994 – Rodrigo De Paul , Argentine footballer[27]
1994 – Jarell Martin , American basketball player[28]
1994 – Emily Nicholl , Scottish netball player[29]
1994 – Daiya Seto , Japanese swimmer[30]
1994 – Emily Temple Wood , American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award[31]
1996 – Shu Uchida , Japanese voice actress[32]
1999 – Tarjei Sandvik Moe , Norwegian actor[33]
2001 – Emily Austin , journalist and social media influencer[34]
Deaths
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1563)
1627 – Luis de Góngora , Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561)
1632 – Robert Hues , English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
1665 – Mary of Jesus of Ágreda , Spanish Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)[35]
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl , German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1718)
1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll , Scottish field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723)
1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix , French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , German author and composer (b. 1797)[36]
1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth , American colonel (b. 1837)
1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
1879 – William Lloyd Garrison , American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
1881 – Samuel Palmer , English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
1901–present
1901 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau , Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
1908 – Old Tom Morris , Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
1915 – John Condon , Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
1919 – Amado Nervo , Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
1923 – Rolf Skår , Norwegian engineer (b. 1941)[37]
1929 – Nikolai von Meck , Russian engineer (b. 1863)
1939 – Fanny Searls , American biologist (b. 1851)[38]
1941 – Lancelot Holland , English admiral (b. 1887)
1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim , German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
1948 – Jacques Feyder , Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1949 – Alexey Shchusev , Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
1950 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell , English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
1951 – Thomas N. Heffron , American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
1956 – Martha Annie Whiteley , English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)[39]
1958 – Frank Rowe , Australian public servant (b. 1895)
1959 – John Foster Dulles , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
1963 – Elmore James , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson II , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b. 1908)
1974 – Duke Ellington , American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
1976 – Denise Pelletier , Canadian actress (b. 1923)
1979 – Ernest Bullock , English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
1981 – Herbert Müller , Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
1984 – Vince McMahon Sr. , American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
1988 – Freddie Frith , English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
1990 – Arthur Villeneuve , Canadian painter (b. 1910)
1991 – Gene Clark , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa , Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
1995 – Harold Wilson , English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
1996 – Thomas F. Connolly , American admiral (b. 1909)[40]
1996 – Enrique Álvarez Félix , Mexican actor (b. 1934)
1996 – Joseph Mitchell , American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1997 – Edward Mulhare , Irish actor (b. 1923)
2000 – Kurt Schork , American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri , Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
2002 – Wallace Markfield , American author (b. 1926)
2003 – Rachel Kempson , English actress (b. 1910)
2004 – Henry Ries , German-American photographer (b. 1917)
2004 – Milton Shulman , Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
2004 – Edward Wagenknecht , American critic and educator (b. 1900)
2005 – Carl Amery , German activist and author (b. 1922)
2005 – Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
2005 – Guy Tardif , Canadian academic and politician (b. 1935)
2006 – Henry Bumstead , American art director and production designer (b. 1915)
2006 – Claude Piéplu , French actor (b. 1923)
2008 – Dick Martin , American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1922)
2008 – Jimmy McGriff , American organist and bandleader (b. 1936)
2009 – Jay Bennett , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1963)
2010 – Ray Alan , English ventriloquist, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 – Paul Gray , American bass player and songwriter (b. 1972)
2010 – Raymond V. Haysbert , American businessman and activist (b. 1920)
2010 – Petr Muk , Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1965)
2010 – Anneliese Rothenberger , German soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2011 – Huguette Clark , American heiress, painter, and philanthropist (b. 1906)
2011 – Hakim Ali Zardari , Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Klaas Carel Faber , Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922)
2012 – Kathi Kamen Goldmark , American journalist and author (b. 1948)
2012 – Jacqueline Harpman , Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929)
2012 – Juan Francisco Lombardo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1925)
2012 – Lee Rich , American production manager and producer (b. 1918)
2013 – Helmut Braunlich , German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929)
2013 – Ron Davies , Welsh footballer (b. 1942)
2013 – Gotthard Graubner , German painter (b. 1930)
2013 – Haynes Johnson , American journalist and author (b. 1931)
2013 – Pyotr Todorovsky , Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2014 – David Allen , English cricketer (b. 1935)
2014 – Stormé DeLarverie , known as the "Rosa Parks of the lesbian community" (b. 1920)[41]
2014 – Mahafarid Amir Khosravi , Iranian businessman (b. 1969)
2014 – Knowlton Nash , Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927)
2014 – John Vasconcellos , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)
2015 – Dean Carroll , English rugby player (b. 1962)
2015 – Kenneth Jacobs , Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
2015 – Tanith Lee , English author (b. 1947)[42]
2018 – John Bain (TotalBiscuit), English gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984)[43]
2018 – Gudrun Burwitz , daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler (b. 1929)[44]
2023 – Tina Turner , American-Swiss rock and pop singer, dancer, actress and author (b. 1939)[45]
2024 – Doug Ingle , American musician (b. 1945)[46]
2024 – Kabosu , Japanese dog and Internet meme celebrity (b. 2005)[47]
Holidays and observances
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