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March 4
is the 63rd day of the year (64th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.
From
1793
?
1933
, March 4 was
Inauguration Day
for the
President of the United States
. Since
1937
, Inauguration Day has been
January 20
.
- 51
-
Nero
is given the title of
Princeps Iuventutis
(Head of the Youth).
- 1152
?
Frederick I Barbarossa
is elected King of the Germans.
- 1226
- The
city
of
Hamm
, in
North Rhine-Westphalia
, present-day
Germany
, is founded.
- 1275
-
Chinese
astronomers
observe a
solar eclipse
.
- 1351
?
Ramathibodi
becomes
King
of
Siam
.
- 1386
? Wladyslaw II Jagiello (
Jogaila
) is crowned
King
of
Poland
.
- 1461
? The Lancastrian King
Henry VI of England
is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, King
Edward IV of England
.
- 1493
?
Christopher Columbus
arrives in
Portugal
after the voyage that took him to the
Caribbean
.
- 1519
?
Hernan Cortes
arrives in
Mexico
.
- 1628
? The
Massachusetts
Bay Colony is granted a royal charter.
- 1665
?
England
's King
Charles II
declares war on the
Netherlands
.
- 1675
? In
England
,
John Flamsteed
is appointed as the first
Astronomer
Royal.
- 1681
?
Charles II
grants a
land
charter to
William Penn
, to colonise what is now
Pennsylvania
.
- 1769
- The
Orion Nebula
is first observed by
Charles Messier
.
- 1776
-
American Revolutionary War
: The
Continental Army
fortifies Dorchester Heights with
cannon
, leading the British troops to abandon the
Siege of Boston
.
- 1789
? In
New York City
, the first
United States Congress
meets, putting the
United States
Constitution
into effect.
- 1790
?
France
is divided into 83
Departements
.
- 1791
?
Vermont
becomes the 14th State of the
US
.
- 1793
?
John Adams
becomes the first
US
President
to be inaugurated on March 4.
- 1794
- The 11th Amendment to the
United States Constitution
is passed by the
United States Congress
.
- 1837
- The
city
of
Chicago
is incorporated.
- 1848
-
Carlo Alberto di Savoia
signs the
Statuto Albertino
that will later represent the
Constitution
of the
Kingdom
of
Italy
.
- 1861
?
Abraham Lincoln
becomes
President of the United States
. During his time in office, he will be faced with the
American Civil War
.
- 1861
? The Stars and Bars Flag of the
Confederate States of America
is introduced.
- 1865
? The third national flag of the
Confederate States of America
is introduced.
- 1882
? The
United Kingdom
's first electric
trams
run in
London
.
- 1877
? The
ballet
Swan Lake
by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
has its premiere at the Bolshoi
Theatre
in
Moscow
.
- 1890
? The
Forth Rail Bridge
is opened in
Scotland
.
- 1899
?
Cyclone
Mahina passes to the north of
Cooktown
,
Queensland
,
Australia
, with 12-metre waves travelling inland by as much as five
kilometres
, killing 300 people.
- 1902
- The
American Automobile Club
is founded in
Cleveland, Ohio
.
- 1908
- The Collinwood
School
Fire
near
Cleveland, Ohio
kills 174 people.
- 1913
- The
United States Department of Labor
is created.
- 1917
?
Jeannette Rankin
of
Montana
becomes the first woman in the
House of Representatives
.
- 1918
? The first case of the
Spanish flu
pandemic occurs.
- 1918
- The
ship
USS
Cyclops
leaves
Barbados
, never to be seen again. It is one of several disappearances in the so-called
Bermuda Triangle
.
- 1929
?
Herbert Hoover
becomes
President of the United States
. At the same time,
Charles Curtis
becomes the first
Vice President of the United States
of
Native American
ancestry.
- 1933
?
Chancellor
of
Austria
Engelbert Dolfuss
begins authoritarian rule by decree.
- 1933
?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
becomes the last
President of the United States
to be inaugurated on March 4.
- 1933
?
Frances Perkins
becomes the first woman in the United States Cabinet, as she becomes Secretary for Labor.
- 1936
- The
Hindenburg
airship makes its first test-flight over
Lake Constance
.
- 1941
?
World War II
: The
United Kingdom
launches
Operation Claymore
on the
Lofoten Islands
.
- 1943
?
World War II
: The
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
ends.
- 1943
- British
passenger
steamer
City of Pretoria
is sunk by a German U-boat in the North
Atlantic Ocean
. No-one on board survives.
- 1945
?
Lapland War
:
Finland
declares war on
Germany
.
- 1960
? The French freighter
La Coubre
explodes in Havanna,
Cuba
.
- 1962
- A Caledonia Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after take-off in
Cameroon
, killing 111 people.
- 1966
? A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at
Tokyo
International
Airport
, killing 64 people.
- 1966
-
John Lennon
of
The Beatles
says that the band is probably "Bigger than Jesus".
- 1970
- French
submarine
Erydice
explodes underwater, killing the entire 57-man crew.
- 1974
-
People magazine
is first published in the
United States
, under the name "People Weekly".
- 1976
-
Northern Ireland
is directly ruled from
London
from this date.
- 1977
? An
earthquake
strikes southeastern
Europe
.
Bucharest
,
Romania
, is among the places that suffer damage, as around 1,500 people are killed.
- 1980
?
Robert Mugabe
is elected
Prime Minister
of
Zimbabwe
.
- 1983
-
Bertha Wilson
becomes the first
woman
to sit on the
Supreme Court of Canada
.
- 1985
? The
US
Food
and
Drug
Administration approves a
blood
test for
AIDS
.
- 1986
? The
Soviet
Vega 1
space
probe starts to return images of
Halley's Comet
, including its
nucleus
.
- 1987
-
President
Ronald Reagan
apologizes to the
American
people on a live televised address about the
Iran-Contra affair
.
- 1991
- For the first time since
Iraq
's invasion,
Prime Minister
of
Kuwait
Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
returns to his country.
- 1996
- A
train
that has crashed off the tracks in Weyauwega,
Wisconsin
. causes an emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
- 2000
?
Play Station 2
is released for the first time, in
Japan
.
- 2001
? A car bomb explodes outside the
BBC
television centre, seriously injuring one person.
- 2001
? A Bridge collapse in northern
Portugal
kills up to 70 people.
- 2001
- A majority of
voters
in
Switzerland
rejects membership of the
European Union
.
- 2007
? In
Estonia
, approximately 30,000 voters make uses of electronic voting, which had previously never been used in an election, for the
Estonian
Parliamentary
Election.
- 2009
? The
International Criminal Court
issues an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state for the first time, for
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
,
President
of
Sudan
, on
war crimes
charges in relation to the crisis in
Darfur
.
- 2012
? More than 100 people are killed in a munitions dump fire in
Brazzaville
,
Republic of the Congo
.
- 2012
?
Vladimir Putin
declares victory in the
Russian
Presidential
Election, allowing him to become
President of Russia
for a second time.
- 2014
-
Prime Minister
of
Estonia
Andrus Ansip
resigns from office after nine years, being succeeded by
Taavi Roivas
.
- 2015
- A
mine
explosion
in Rebel-controlled Eastern
Ukraine
kills 34 miners.
- 2018
- The German
Social Democrats
vote in favour of a new governing coalition under
Angela Merkel
's
CDU
/
CSU
, ending a period of political uncertainty after the
Bundestag
election over five months earlier.
- 2018
-
Italian general election, 2018
:
Italy
holds its general
election
, with no party gaining an overall majority and
populist
and right-wing parties gaining seats.
- 2018
-
Russian
former spy
Sergei Skripal
and his daughter Yulia are
poisoned
with a
nerve agent
in
Salisbury
,
England
.
- 895
-
Liu Zhiyuan
, Chinese Emperor (d.
948
)
- 1188
?
Blanche of Castile
, Queen of
Louis VIII of France
(d.
1252
)
- 1394
?
Henry the Navigator
(d.
1460
)
- 1484
-
George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
, follower of
Martin Luther
(d.
1543
)
- 1492
-
Francesco de Loyolle
, Italian composer (d.
1540
)
- 1525
?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
,
Italian
composer
of
Renaissance
music (d.
1594
)
- 1610
?
William Dobson
, English portraitist and painter (d.
1646
)
- 1645
-
Johann Ambrosius Bach
, German musician (d.
1695
)
- 1665
-
Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck
, Swedish soldier (d.
1694
)
- 1678
?
Antonio Vivaldi
, Italian composer (d.
1741
)
- 1702
-
Jack Sheppard
, English burglar and escapee (d.
1724
)
- 1706
-
Lauritz de Thurah
, Danish
architect
(d.
1759
)
- 1715
-
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
, British
statesman
(d.
1763
)
- 1745
-
Kazimierz Pulaski
, Polish-American general (d.
1779
)
- 1756
?
Henry Raeburn
, Scottish painter (d.
1823
)
- 1770
-
Joseph Jacotot
, French
teacher
and
educational
philosopher
(d.
1840
)
- 1782
-
Johann Rudolf Wyss
, Swiss folklorist (d.
1830
)
- 1792
-
Samuel Slocum
, American inventor (d.
1861
)
- 1793
?
Karl Lachmann
, German
philologist
(d.
1851
)
- 1808
-
Frederik Stang
, Norwegian politician (d.
1884
)
- 1811
-
John Lawrence
, Irish
nobleman
and British Viceroy of
India
(d.
1879
)
- 1817
-
Edwards Pierrepoint
, 34th
United States Attorney General
(d.
1892
)
- 1820
-
Francesco Bentivegna
, Italian revolutionary (d.
1856
)
- 1826
-
Elme Marie Caro
, French
philosopher
(d.
1887
)
- 1838
-
Paul Lacome
, French composer (d.
1920
)
- 1847
?
Karl Bayer
, Austrian chemist (d.
1904
)
- 1851
-
Alexandros Papadiamantis
, Greek writer (d.
1911
)
- 1852
?
Kristjan Jonsson
, 3rd
Prime Minister
of
Iceland
(d.
1926
)
- 1856
-
Alfred William Rich
, English painter (d.
1921
)
- 1862
-
Jacob Robert Emden
, Swiss astro
physicist
and
meteorologist
(d.
1940
)
- 1870
-
Thomas Sturge Moore
, English poet (d.
1944
)
- 1871
-
Boris Galerkin
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
1945
)
- 1873
?
John H. Trumbull
, 70th
Governor
of
Connecticut
(d.
1961
)
- 1875
?
Mihaly Karolyi
,
Prime Minister
and
President
of
Hungary
(d.
1955
)
- 1875
-
Enrique Larreta
, Argentine writer, academic, writer and art collector (d.
1961
)
- 1878
?
P. D. Ouspensky
, Russian esoterist and writer (d.
1947
)
- 1879
?
Bernhard Kellermann
, German
writer
and
poet
(d.
1951
)
- 1879
?
Josip Murn
, Slovenian
poet
(d.
1901
)
- 1881
-
Todor Aleksandrov
, Bulgarian revolutionary (d.
1924
)
- 1882
-
Nicolae Titulescu
, Romanian
diplomat
and
politician
(d.
1941
)
- 1883
-
Maude Fealy
, American
actress
(d.
1971
)
- 1888
?
Knute Rockne
, Norwegian-born
American football
coach (d.
1931
)
- 1889
?
Oren E. Long
, Territorial Governor of
Hawaii
and US Senator (d.
1965
)
- 1889
-
Oscar Chisini
, Italian
mathematician
(d.
1957
)
- 1891
-
Lois W.
, American co-founder of
Alcoholics Anonymous
(d.
1988
)
- 1899
-
Liana Del Balzo
, Argentine-Italian
actress
(d.
1982
)
- 1901
-
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
, Malagasy-French
poet
(d.
1937
)
- 1904
?
Luis Carrero Blanco
, Spanish politician (d.
1973
)
- 1908
-
Thomas Shaw
, American
blues
musician (d.
1977
)
- 1910
-
Tancredo Neves
, Brazilian politician (d.
1985
)
- 1913
-
John Garfield
, American actor (d.
1952
)
- 1914
?
Gino Colaussi
, Italian footballer (d.
1991
)
- 1914
?
Ward Kimball
, American
cartoonist
(d.
2002
)
- 1915
-
Carlos Surinach
,
Catalan
composer
and
conductor
(d.
1997
)
- 1915
-
Laszlo Csatary
, Hungarian
war criminal
(d.
2013
)
- 1916
-
Giorgio Bassani
, Italian writer and
poet
(d.
2000
)
- 1918
-
Margaret Osborne duPont
, American
tennis
player (d.
2012
)
- 1921
-
Olev Olesk
, Estonian
politician
- 1921
-
Kaljo Raid
, Estonian
cellist
,
composer
and clergyman (d.
2005
)
- 1922
-
Iring Fetscher
, German political scientist (d.
2014
)
- 1922
-
Xenia Stad-de Jong
, Dutch athlete (d.
2012
)
- 1923
?
Patrick Moore
, British
astronomer
, writer and television presenter (d.
2012
)
- 1923
-
Piero D'Inzeo
, Italian
equestrian
show jumper (d.
2014
)
- 1925
-
Inezita Barroso
, Brazilian
folk
singer
(d.
2015
)
- 1926
-
Pascual Perez
, Argentine boxer (d.
1977
)
- 1926
-
Fran Warren
, American singer and actress (d.
2013
)
- 1927
-
Phil Batt
, former
Governor
of
Idaho
- 1928
-
Samuel Adler
, German-American composer
- 1928
?
Alan Sillitoe
, British writer (d.
2010
)
- 1929
-
Bernard Haitink
, Dutch conductor and
violinist
- 1930
-
John Toohey
, Australian
judge
(d.
2015
)
- 1931
-
William H. Keeler
, American
cardinal
(d.
2017
)
- 1932
-
Brunella Bovo
, Italian actress (d.
2017
)
- 1932
?
Miriam Makeba
, South African singer (d.
2008
)
- 1932
?
Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
,
Polish
journalist (d.
2007
)
- 1932
?
Frank Wells
,
American
businessman,
president
of the
Walt Disney Company
(d.
1994
)
- 1934
-
Mario Davidovsky
, Argentine-American composer
- 1934
-
Gleb Yakunin
, Russian
priest
and dissident (d.
2014
)
- 1935
?
Bent Larsen
, Danish
chess
player (d.
2010
)
- 1935
-
Prabha Rau
, Indian politician (d.
2010
)
- 1936
?
Jim Clark
, Scottish racing driver (d.
1968
)
- 1936
?
Aribert Reimann
, German
composer
- 1938
?
Paula Prentiss
, American actress
- 1938
-
Alpha Conde
,
Guinean
politician
- 1938
-
Angus MacLise
, American drummer (
The Velvet Underground
) (d.
1979
)
- 1943
?
Lucio Dalla
, Italian
singer-songwriter
and
musician
(d.
2012
)
- 1944
-
Bobby Womack
, American
singer-songwriter
(d.
2014
)
- 1945
?
Tommy Svensson
, Swedish football manager
- 1945
-
Dieter Meier
, Swiss musician, singer and artist
- 1945
-
Femi Benussi
, Italian
actress
- 1946
-
Michael Ashcroft
, British politician
- 1947
-
Jan Garbarek
, Norwegian
jazz
saxophonist
- 1947
-
Gunnar Hansen
, Icelandic-American actor (d.
2015
)
- 1948
?
Shakin' Stevens
, Welsh singer
- 1948
-
Chris Squire
, English bass
guitarist
(
Yes
) (d.
2015
)
- 1948
-
Brian Cummings
, American voice actor
- 1948
?
James Elroy
, American writer
- 1949
?
Sergei Bagapsh
,
Abkhazian
politician (d.
2011
)
- 1950
?
Rick Perry
, American politician, former
Governor
of
Texas
- 1951
?
Kenny Dalglish
, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1951
-
Zoran Zizic
, Montenegrin politician (d.
2013
)
- 1952
?
Umberto Tozzi
, Italian singer
- 1952
?
Svend Robinson
, Canadian politician
- 1953
?
Pawel Janas
, Polish football manager
- 1953
-
Rose Laurens
, French
singer-songwriter
- 1954
?
Francois Fillon
, former
Prime Minister of France
- 1954
-
Boris Moiseev
, Russian singer,
choreographer
, dancer, writer and actor
- 1954
-
Catherine O'Hara
, Canadian actress
- 1954
-
Irina Ratushinskaya
, Russian writer and dissident
- 1954
?
Willie Thorne
, English
snooker
player
- 1955
-
Joey Jones
, Welsh
footballer
- 1955
-
Dominique Pinon
, French actor
- 1958
-
Massimo Mascioletti
, Italian
rugby
player and coach
- 1958
-
Patricia Heaton
, American actress
- 1960
?
John Mugabi
,
Ugandan
boxer
- 1961
-
Ray Mancini
, American boxer
- 1962
?
Lolo Ferrari
,
French
actress
(d.
2000
)
- 1963
-
Jason Newsted
, American musician (
Metallica
)
- 1963
-
Daniel Roebuck
, American actor
- 1964
-
Dave Colclough
, Welsh
computer
programmer and
poker
player
- 1965
?
Khaled Hosseini
, Afghan writer and physician
- 1965
-
Yury Loncharov
, Russian
cosmonaut
- 1966
-
Kevin Johnson
, American
basketball
player and politician
- 1967
-
Sam Taylor-Wood
, English conceptual artist
- 1967
?
Kubilay Turkyilmaz
, Turkish-Swiss
footballer
- 1967
?
Tim Vine
, British actor and comedian
- 1968
?
Patsy Kensit
, British actress
- 1968
-
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
, Greek politician
- 1968
-
Christina McKelvie
, Scottish politician
- 1969
-
Chaz Bono
, American actor and
LGBT
activist
- 1969
?
Pierluigi Casiraghi
, Italian
footballer
and manager
- 1971
-
Fergal Lawler
, Irish musician (
The Cranberries
)
- 1971
-
Claire Baker
, Scottish politician
- 1972
-
Jos Verstappen
, Dutch racing driver
- 1972
?
Alison Wheeler
, British singer (
The Beautiful South
)
- 1972
?
Ivy Queen
,
Puerto Rican
musician
- 1973
-
Massimo Brambilla
, Italian
footballer
- 1973
?
Len Wiseman
, American
movie director
and
screenwriter
- 1973
-
Penny Mordaunt
, English politician
- 1974
?
Ariel Ortega
, Argentine
footballer
- 1974
-
Joaquim Alberto Silva
, Angolan
footballer
(d.
2019
)
- 1975
?
Antti Aalto
, Finnish
ice hockey
player
- 1976
-
Gary Shortland
, English figure skater
- 1977
-
Christian Jessen
, English doctor and
television
host
- 1977
-
Tonga Lea'aetoa
,
Tongan
-
New Zealand
rugby
player
- 1977
-
Jason Marsalis
, American
drummer
- 1978
-
Jean-Marc Pelletier
, American
ice hockey
player
- 1979
-
Vyacheslav Malafeev
, Russian
footballer
- 1979
?
Jon Fratelli
, Scottish singer
- 1980
?
Omar Bravo
, Mexican
footballer
- 1980
?
Phil McGuire
, Scottish
footballer
- 1981
-
Laura Michelle Kelly
, English actress and singer
- 1982
-
Elia Rigotto
, Italian cyclist
- 1982
-
Ludmila Ezhova
, Russian gymnast
- 1982
?
Landon Donovan
, American
soccer
player
- 1983
-
Adam Deacon
, English
actor
,
rapper
and
director
- 1984
?
Tamir Cohen
, Israeli
footballer
- 1984
-
Phillip Inzerillo
, American
trombone
player
- 1985
-
Park Min-young
, South Korean actress
- 1985
-
Mathieu Montcourt
, French
tennis
player (d.
2009
)
- 1986
-
Manu Vatuvei
, New Zealand
rugby
player
- 1986
?
Tom De Mul
, Belgian
footballer
- 1988
-
Cody Longo
, American actor and singer
- 1989
-
Erin Heatherton
, American model
- 1990
?
Andrea Bowen
, American actress
- 1992
?
Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
, daughter of Prince
Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1992
-
Erik Lamela
, Argentine
footballer
- 1992
-
Jared Sullinger
, American
basketball
player
- 1993
-
Jenna Boyd
, American actress
- 1993
-
Bobbi Kristina Brown
, American media personality and singer (b.
2015
)
- 1995
-
Bill Milner
, English actor
- 251
?
Pope Lucius I
- 561
-
Pope Pelagius I
- 1172
? King
Stephen III of Hungary
(b.
1147
)
- 1193
?
Saladin
, Turkish sultan (b.
1137
)
- 1238
?
Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland
(b.
1210
)
- 1238
-
Yuri II of Vladimir
(b.
1189
)
- 1303
-
Daniel of Moscow
, Russian prince and Grand Duke of
Muscovy
(b.
1261
)
- 1484
?
Saint Casimir
, Prince of
Poland
(b.
1458
)
- 1496
?
Sigismund of Austria
(b.
1427
)
- 1615
-
Hans von Aachen
, German painter (b.
1552
)
- 1619
-
Anne of Denmark
, Queen of
James VI of Scotland
/
James I of England
(b.
1574
)
- 1710
-
Louis, Prince of Conde
(b.
1668
)
- 1762
?
Johannes Zick
, German fresco painter (b.
1702
)
- 1793
-
Louis de Bourbon
, French admiral (b.
1725
)
- 1795
-
John Collins
, 3rd
Governor
of
Rhode Island
(b.
1717
)
- 1805
-
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
, French painter (b.
1725
)
- 1807
-
Abraham Baldwin
, American politician (b.
1754
)
- 1832
?
Jean-Francois Champollion
, French scholar and
Egyptologist
(b.
1790
)
- 1852
?
Nikolai Gogol
, Russian writer (b.
1809
)
- 1858
?
Matthew C. Perry
, American naval officer (b.
1794
)
- 1883
?
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
, Vice President of the
Confederate States of America
(b.
1812
)
- 1888
?
Amos Bronson Alcott
, American
philosopher
and
writer
(b.
1799
)
- 1903
-
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
, English
novelist
(b.
1854
)
- 1906
-
John Schofield
, American
general
and
politician
(b.
1831
)
- 1915
-
William Willett
, founder of
British Summer Time
(b.
1856
)
- 1925
-
John Montgomery Ward
, American
baseball
player (b.
1860
)
- 1941
?
Ludwig Quidde
, German pacifist (b.
1858
)
- 1944
?
Rene Lefebvre
, martyr of the French Resistance (b.
1879
)
- 1944
-
Louis Capone
, Italian-American gangster (b.
1896
)
- 1945
-
Mark Sandrich
, American movie director, writer and producer (b.
1900
)
- 1946
?
Bror von Blixen-Finecke
, Danish big-game hunter (b.
1886
)
- 1948
?
Antonin Artaud
, French actor and director (b.
1896
)
- 1950
-
Adam Rainer
, Austrian dwarf and giant (b.
1899
)
- 1952
?
Charles Scott Sherrington
,
English
doctor
, won the 1932
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b.
1857
)
- 1960
-
Herbert O'Conor
,
Governor
of
Maryland
(b.
1896
)
- 1973
-
Samuel Tolansky
, British scientist (b.
1907
)
- 1976
?
Walter H. Schottky
, German physicist (b.
1886
)
- 1977
-
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
, German politician (b.
1897
)
- 1978
-
William Bolin
, 15th
Governor
of
Arizona
(b.
1909
)
- 1980
-
Luis Piazzini
, Argentine
chess
player (b.
1905
)
- 1981
-
Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer
, German
admiral
(b.
1900
)
- 1986
?
Howard Greenfield
, American songwriter (b.
1936
)
- 1993
-
Richard Sale
, American
screenwriter
and
director
(b.
1911
)
- 1994
?
John Candy
, Canadian comedian and actor (b.
1950
)
- 1999
-
Fritz Honegger
, Swiss politician (b.
1917
)
- 2001
?
Glenn Hughes
, American singer (b.
1950
)
- 2001
-
Jim Rhodes
, 61st
Governor
of
Ohio
(b.
1909
)
- 2001
-
Harold Stassen
, 25th
Governor
of
Minnesota
(b.
1907
)
- 2004
-
John McGeoch
, Scottish
guitarist
(b.
1955
)
- 2006
-
Roman Ogaza
, Polish
footballer
(b.
1952
)
- 2008
-
George Walter
, former
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
(b.
1928
)
- 2008
?
Gary Gygax
,
American
games designer who made
Dungeons & Dragons
(b.
1938
).
- 2010
?
Vladislav Ardzinba
, Abkhazian politician (b.
1945
)
- 2011
?
Simon van der Meer
, Dutch physicist (b.
1925
)
- 2011
?
Johnny Preston
, American singer (b.
1939
)
- 2011
?
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
,
Prime Minister
of
Nepal
(b.
1924
)
- 2012
?
Paul McBride
, Scottish lawyer and politician (b.
1965
)
- 2013
-
Seki Matsunaga
, Japanese
footballer
(b.
1928
)
- 2013
-
Fran Warren
, American singer and actress (b.
1926
)
- 2014
-
Wu Tianming
, Chinese movie director (b.
1939
)
- 2014
-
Mark Freidkin
, Russian writer (b.
1953
)
- 2015
-
Ninan Koshy
, Indian thinker,
theologian
and social analyst (b.
1934
)
- 2016
-
Bud Collins
, American sports journalist (b.
1929
)
- 2016
-
Pat Conroy
, American author (b.
1945
)
- 2016
-
P. A. Sangma
, Indian politician (b.
1947
)
- 2016
-
Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
, Iranian cleric (b.
1935
)
- 2016
-
Morgan F. Murphy
, American politician (b.
1932
)
- 2017
-
Edi Fitzroy
, Jamaican
singer-songwriter
(b.
1955
)
- 2017
-
Helen M. Marshall
, American politician (b.
1929
)
- 2017
-
Clayton Keith Yeutter
, American politician (b.
1930
)
- 2018
-
Davide Astori
, Italian
footballer
(b.
1987
)
- 2018
-
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet
, British engineering businessman (b.
1936
)
- 2018
-
Farhang Mehr
, Iranian-American scholar and writer (b.
1923
)
- 2018
-
H. Wayne Norman, Jr.
, American politician (b.
1955
)
- 2018
-
James Luna
, American performance artist (b.
1950
)
- 2019
-
King Kong Bundy
, American
professional wrestler
(b.
1957
)
- 2019
-
Eric Caldow
, Scottish
footballer
(b.
1934
)
- 2019
-
Juan Corona
, Mexican-American
serial killer
(b.
1934
)
- 2019
-
Keith Flint
, English singer (
The Prodigy
) (b.
1969
)
- 2019
-
Ted Lindsay
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1925
)
- 2019
-
Klaus Kinkel
, German politician (b.
1936
)
- 2019
-
Luke Perry
, American actor (b.
1966
)
- 2019
-
Johnny Romano
, American
baseball
player (b.
1934
)
- 2019
-
Jean Starobinski
, Swiss literary critic (b.
1920
)
- 2022
-
Rod Marsh
, Australian cricketer (b.
1947
)
- 2022
-
Shane Warne
, Australian cricketer (b.
1969
)