January 1

history

,The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year. __TOC__

During the Middle Ages under the influence of the Christian Church, many countries moved the start of the year to one of several important Christian festivals β€” December 25 (the Nativity of Jesus), March 1, March 25 (the Annunciation), or even Easter. Eastern European countries (most of them with populations showing allegiance to the Orthodox Church) began their numbered year on September 1 from about 988.

In England, January 1 was celebrated as the New Year festival, but from the 12th century to 1752 the year in England began on March 25 (Lady Day). So, for example, the Parliamentary record records the execution of Charles I occurring in 1648 (as the year did not end until March 24), although modern histories adjust the start of the year to January 1 and record the execution as occurring in 1649.

Most western European countries changed the start of the year to January 1 before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. For example, Scotland changed the start of the Scottish New Year to January 1 in 1600. England, Ireland and the British colonies changed the start of the year to January 1 in 1752. Later that year in September, the Gregorian calendar was introduced throughout Britain and the British colonies. These two reforms were implemented by the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.

January 1 became the official start of the year as follows:

Events

Births

  • 766 – Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
  • 1431 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
  • 1467 – Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
  • 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
  • 1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
  • 1516 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
  • 1557 – IstvΓ‘n Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
  • 1600 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
  • 1614 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
  • 1618 – BartolomΓ© EstΓ©ban Murillo, Spanish painter (baptism) (d. 1682)
  • 1638 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
  • 1648 – Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
  • 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
  • 1684 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
  • 1704 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
  • 1711 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
  • 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
  • 1735 – Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
  • 1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796)
  • 1750 – Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (d. 1801)
  • 1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
  • 1767 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
  • 1774 – AndrΓ© Marie Constant DumΓ©ril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
  • 1779 – William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
  • 1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)
  • 1814 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
  • 1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (d. 1861)
  • 1823 – SΓ‘ndor PetΕ‘fi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
  • 1833 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
  • 1834 – Ludovic HalΓ©vy, French playwright (d. 1908)
  • 1848 – John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
  • 1852 – EugΓ¨ne-Anatole DemarΓ§ay, French chemist (d. 1904)
  • 1854 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
  • 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French organizer of the Olympic Games (d. 1937)
  • 1864 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
  • 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
  • 1867 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
  • 1868 – Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
  • 1873 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
  • 1874 – Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
  • 1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
  • 1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
  • 1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
  • 1879 – E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
  • 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (d. 1952)
  • 1881 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
  • 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
  • 1888 – John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
  • 1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek cavalry officer (d. 1965)
  • 1889 – Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967)
  • 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
  • 1892 – Artur RodziΕ„ski, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
  • 1892 – Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948)
  • 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
  • 1894 – Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
  • 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
  • 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
  • 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
  • 1902 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
  • 1904 – Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (d. 1970)
  • 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
  • 1905 – StanisΕ‚aw Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
  • 1906 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
  • 1908 – Bill Tapia, American musician
  • 1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
  • 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
  • 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
  • 1911 – Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971)
  • 1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
  • 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist
  • 1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet (d.1960)
  • 1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
  • 1912 – Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
  • 1912 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (d. 1991)
  • 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
  • 1917 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
  • 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
  • 1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
  • 1918 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress
  • 1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
  • 1919 – Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948)
  • 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (d. 2010)
  • 1919 – Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer
  • 1920 – Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2009)
  • 1921 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
  • 1921 – CΓ©sar Baldaccini, French sculptor. (d. 1998)
  • 1922 – Ernest Hollings, American politician
  • 1923 – Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
  • 1923 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
  • 1924 – Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
  • 1925 – Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
  • 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005)
  • 1925 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
  • 1925 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007)
  • 1926 – Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
  • 1927 – Maurice BΓ©jart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
  • 1927 – Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
  • 1927 – Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
  • 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
  • 1927 – Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
  • 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
  • 1929 – Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer
  • 1930 – Gaafar al-Nimeiry, President of Sudan 1971–85 (d. 2009)
  • 1930 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959)
  • 1930 – Ty Hardin, American film actor
  • 1932 – Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
  • 1932 – Giuseppe PatanΓ¨, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989)
  • 1933 – Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
  • 1933 – Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
  • 1933 – Norman Yemm, Australian actor
  • 1935 – B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
  • 1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman
  • 1937 – John Fuller, English poet
  • 1937 – Matt Robinson, American actor (d. 2002)
  • 1937 – Adam WiΕ›niewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
  • 1938 – Clay Cole, American television host and producer
  • 1938 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
  • 1938 – Frank Langella, American actor
  • 1939 – MichΓ¨le Mercier, French actress
  • 1942 – Dennis Archer, American politician
  • 1942 – Martin Frost, American politician
  • 1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
  • 1942 – Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
  • 1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
  • 1942 – Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
  • 1943 – Larry Clark, American director
  • 1943 – Tony Knowles, 9thGovernor of Alaska
  • 1943 – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
  • 1943 – Don Novello, American actor
  • 1944 – Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
  • 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
  • 1945 – Peter Duncan, Australian politician
  • 1945 – Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
  • 1945 – Max Julien, American actor
  • 1946 – Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
  • 1946 – Rick Hurst, American actor
  • 1946 – Rivelino, Brazilian football player
  • 1947 – Jon Corzine, American politician
  • 1947 – Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
  • 1947 – Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
  • 1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general
  • 1948 – Ashok Saraf, Marathi/Hindi Film Actor
  • 1949 – Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
  • 1950 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league coach
  • 1950 – Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
  • 1950 – Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter
  • 1951 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
  • 1951 – Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
  • 1951 – Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
  • 1952 – Stephanie Faracy, American actress
  • 1953 – Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
  • 1954 – Bob Menendez, American politician
  • 1954 – Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek politician
  • 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut
  • 1956 – Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
  • 1956 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player
  • 1956 – Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor
  • 1956 – Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer
  • 1957 – Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
  • 1957 – Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician
  • 1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician
  • 1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
  • 1959 – Jennifer Edwards, American actress
  • 1959 – Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach
  • 1960 – Michael Seibert, American ice dancer
  • 1961 - Sergei Babayan, American classical pianist
  • 1961 – Sam Backo, Australian rugby league footballer
  • 1961 – Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer
  • 1961 – Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
  • 1961 – Mark Wingett, British actor
  • 1962 – Ari Up, German musician (The Slits)
  • 1963 – Lina KačiuΕ‘ytΔ—, Lithuanian swimmer
  • 1964 – Juliana Donald, American actress
  • 1964 – Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
  • 1966 – Anna Burke, Australian politician
  • 1967 – John Digweed, English DJ
  • 1967 – Tim Dog, American rapper
  • 1967 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
  • 1967 – Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
  • 1968 – Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
  • 1968 – Joey Stefano, American actor (d. 1994)
  • 1968 – Davor Ε uker, Croatian footballer
  • 1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor
  • 1969 – Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
  • 1969 – Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer
  • 1969 – Christi Paul, American news anchor
  • 1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor
  • 1970 – Kimberly Page, American manager and actress
  • 1971 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler
  • 1971 – Scott Riggs, American racing driver
  • 1971 – Bobby Holik, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1971 – Chris Potter, American jazz saxophonist
  • 1972 – Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
  • 1972 – Lilian Thuram, French footballer
  • 1973 – Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet
  • 1973 – Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish musician (Lake of Tears)
  • 1973 – Danny Lloyd, American former child actor
  • 1975 – Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
  • 1975 – Joe Cannon, American footballer
  • 1975 – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
  • 1975 – Fernando Tatis, Dominican baseball player
  • 1976 – Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress
  • 1977 – Hasan SalihamidΕΎiΔ‡, Bosnian footballer
  • 1977 – Robert Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
  • 1978 – Vidya Balan, Indian model and actress
  • 1978 – Nina Bott, German actress
  • 1978 – Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
  • 1978 – Tarik O'Regan, British composer
  • 1979 – Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
  • 1979 – Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
  • 1980 – Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
  • 1981 – Jonas Armstrong, English actor
  • 1981 – Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver
  • 1981 – AbdΓΌlkadir KoΓ§ak, Turkish boxer
  • 1981 – Eden Riegel, American actress
  • 1982 – David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
  • 1983 – Ali Bastian, English actress and model
  • 1983 – Calum Davenport, English footballer
  • 1983 – Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model
  • 1984 – JosΓ© Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
  • 1984 – Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
  • 1984 – Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
  • 1985 – Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
  • 1986 – Glen Davis, American basketball player
  • 1986 – Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor
  • 1986 – Sungmin, Korean Singer
  • 1987 – Gilbert Brule, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1987 – Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
  • 1987 – Devin Setoguchi, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1992 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
  • 1992 – He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
  • 1998 – Marlene Lawston, American child actress

Deaths

  • 379 – Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
  • 404 – Saint Telemachus
  • 874 – Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
  • 898 – Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
  • 962 – Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. c. 940)
  • 1204 – King Haakon III of Norway (b. c. 1170)
  • 1387 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
  • 1515 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
  • 1554 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
  • 1559 – Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
  • 1560 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
  • 1617 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
  • 1631 – Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
  • 1697 – Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
  • 1716 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
  • 1730 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
  • 1742 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
  • 1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
  • 1759 – Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La ChΓ©tardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
  • 1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
  • 1782 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
  • 1789 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
  • 1793 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
  • 1796 – Alexandre-ThΓ©ophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
  • 1800 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
  • 1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
  • 1835 – MΓ‘tyΓ‘s Godina, writer, teacher and pastor (b. 1768)
  • 1852 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777)
  • 1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
  • 1862 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
  • 1869 – Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
  • 1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
  • 1892 – Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
  • 1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
  • 1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
  • 1906 – Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
  • 1918 – Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (b. 1858)
  • 1919 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
  • 1921 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
  • 1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
  • 1932 – C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
  • 1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
  • 1943 – Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
  • 1944 – Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
  • 1944 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
  • 1953 – Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
  • 1954 – Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
  • 1955 – Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist, folklorist, and historian (b. 1881)
  • 1957 – SeΓ‘n South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid
  • 1958 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
  • 1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 1964 – Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
  • 1966 – Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
  • 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
  • 1969 – Bruno SΓΆderstrΓΆm, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
  • 1971 – Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
  • 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
  • 1973 – Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent (b. 1951)
  • 1980 – Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
  • 1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
  • 1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
  • 1982 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
  • 1984 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
  • 1985 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet and writer (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
  • 1986 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • 1986 – Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
  • 1989 – Aleka Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1926)
  • 1991 – Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
  • 1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
  • 1994 – Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
  • 1994 – Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1994 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (b. 1914)
  • 1995 – Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
  • 1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
  • 1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
  • 1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
  • 1997 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
  • 1997 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
  • 1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
  • 1998 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
  • 2000 – Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
  • 2001 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
  • 2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
  • 2003 – Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
  • 2003 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
  • 2003 – Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
  • 2005 – Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
  • 2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
  • 2005 – Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
  • 2006 – Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
  • 2006 – Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
  • 2006 – Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • 2007 – Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
  • 2007 – Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
  • 2007 – Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
  • 2007 – Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
  • 2007 – Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
  • 2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
  • 2007 – Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
  • 2007 – Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
  • 2008 – Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno (b. 1932)
  • 2008 – Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
  • 2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Union minister of India (b. 1919)
  • 2008 – Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
  • 2009 – Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
  • 2009 – Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
  • 2009 – Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenerian (b.1897)

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