What happened on January 17? There are more than 360 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 17
January 17 is the 17th day of the year 2024. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday. This day falls under the 3rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Chico, California 95928 sunrise occured at 07:24 AM and sunset occured at 05:10 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Capricorn. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 24 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 17
- 38 BCOctavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
- 395Emperor Theodosius I dies at Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother, at the age of 10.
- 1287King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
- 1377Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
- 1524Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
- 1562France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
- 1595Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
- 1608Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
- 1648England’s Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
- 1773Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
- 1781American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
- 1799Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
- 1811Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
- 1852The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
- 1873A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
- 1885A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
- 1893The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- 1899The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1903El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
- 1904Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
- 1912Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- 1913Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- 1917The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
- 1918Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- 1929Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign.
- 1929Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
- 1941Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
- 1944World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
- 1945Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
- 1945The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
- 1945World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
- 1946The UN Security Council holds its first session.
- 1949The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
- 1950The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1961Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
- 1961U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the “military-industrial complex”.
- 1966A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
- 1969Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
- 1977Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on Capital punishment in the United States.
- 1981President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
- 1982“Cold Sunday” - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
- 1983The tallest department store in the world, Hudson’s, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
- 1989Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
- 1991Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
- 1991Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
- 1992During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
- 19941994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
- 1995The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
- 1996The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
- 1997A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
- 1998Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
- 2001U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis’ rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
- 2002Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
- 2007The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
- 2008British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
- 2010Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
Who Were Born On January 17?
- 1463Frederick III of Saxony, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
- 1484George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
- 1501Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
- 1504Pope Saint Pius V (d. 1572)
- 1560Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
- 1600Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
- 1612Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
- 1666Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723)
- 1686Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
- 1706Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor (d. 1790)
- 1712John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
- 1719William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
- 1732King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798)
- 1734François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829)
- 1761James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
- 1789August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
- 1814Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist (d. 1887)
- 1820Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
- 1828Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898)
- 1828Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918)
- 1831Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
- 1832Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
- 1834August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914)
- 1850Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)
- 1851A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
- 1853Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933)
- 1857Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935)
- 1857Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
- 1858Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940)
- 1860Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland (d. 1949)
- 1863Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938)
- 1863David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945)
- 1865Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
- 1867Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
- 1871David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
- 1871Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
- 1875Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
- 1876Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
- 1877May Gibbs, Australian children’s author (d. 1969)
- 1880Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
- 1881Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
- 1881Harry Price, English psychic researcher and writer (d. 1948)
- 1882Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946)
- 1883Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972)
- 1886Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
- 1886Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926)
- 1887Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
- 1897Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946)
- 1899Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
- 1899Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
- 1899Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of University of Chicago (d. 1977)
- 1901Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973)
- 1902Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963)
- 1903Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1905Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
- 1905Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet (d. 1960)
- 1905Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007)
- 1905Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1907Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987)
- 1908Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985)
- 1911George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 1914Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
- 1914Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter (d. 2008)
- 1914William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
- 1916Peter Frelinghuysen, American politician
- 1917M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987)
- 1917Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007)
- 1918George M. Leader, American politician and 36th Governor of Pennsylvania
- 1918Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
- 1920Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003)
- 1921Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
- 1922Betty White, American actress
- 1922Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican President of Mexico
- 1922Nicholas Katzenbach, American jurist and 65th United States Attorney General
- 1922Robert De Niro, Sr., American painter (d. 1993)
- 1923Carol Raye, Australian actress
- 1925Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996)
- 1925Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member
- 1925Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000)
- 1925Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (d. 2000)
- 1926Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
- 1926Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
- 1927E.W. Swackhamer, American television & film director (d. 1994)
- 1927Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
- 1927Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007)
- 1927Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
- 1928Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1928Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
- 1929Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
- 1930Eddie LeBaron, American football player
- 1931Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
- 1931James Earl Jones, American actor
- 1931L. Douglas Wilder, American 66th Governor of Virginia
- 1932Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1933Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
- 1933Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) (d. 2003)
- 1933Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
- 1934Donald Cammell, Scottish film director (d. 1996)
- 1934Stuart Nisbet, American actor
- 1935Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware
- 1937Alain Badiou, French philosopher
- 1938John Bellairs, American mystery author (d. 1991)
- 1939Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (d. 2008)
- 1939Maury Povich, American talk show host
- 1940Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
- 1940Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay
- 1941Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist
- 1942Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman
- 1942Muhammad Ali, American boxer
- 1942Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1942Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
- 1943Chris Montez, American singer
- 1943Geoffrey Deuel, American actor
- 1943René Préval, President of Haiti
- 1944Françoise Hardy, French singer
- 1945Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter
- 1946Michèle Deslauriers, Quebec actress
- 1948Anne Queffélec, French pianist
- 1948Davíð Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1948Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey
- 1949Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
- 1949Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
- 1950Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer
- 1952Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1952Larry Fortensky, American former husband of Elizabeth Taylor
- 1952Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
- 1953Carlos Johnson, American blues musician
- 1953Jeff Berlin, American musician
- 1954Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist, son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy
- 1954Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge
- 1955Steve Earle, American musician
- 1955Steve Javie, American professional basketball referee
- 1956Paul Young, English musician
- 1957Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer
- 1957Keith Chegwin, English television presenter
- 1957Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist
- 1957Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
- 1958Valdas Kasparavičius, Lithuanian footballer
- 1959Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
- 1959Susanna Hoffs, American musician
- 1960Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
- 1960Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player
- 1960John Crawford, American musician
- 1961Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director
- 1961Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian Chess grandmaster
- 1962Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
- 1962Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
- 1963Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray)
- 1964Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths)
- 1964Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
- 1965Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer
- 1965Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966Joshua Malina, American actor
- 1966Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
- 1966Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies)
- 1967Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
- 1967Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Pulp, The Longpigs)
- 1967Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor
- 1967Wendy Mass, American author
- 1968Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor
- 1968Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
- 1968Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
- 1969Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director
- 1969Naveen Andrews, British actor
- 1969Tijs Verwest, (DJ Tiësto) Dutch DJ
- 1970Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer
- 1970Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
- 1970James Wattana, Thai snooker player
- 1970Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player
- 1971Ann Wolfe, female boxer
- 1971Kid Rock, American singer
- 1971Paolo Vaccari, Italian rugby player
- 1971Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
- 1971Sylvie Testud, French actress
- 1971Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
- 1972Benno Fürmann, German actor
- 1972Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1973Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
- 1973Liz Ellis, Australian netball captain
- 1974Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian
- 1974Derrick Mason, American football player
- 1974Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician
- 1974Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
- 1975Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
- 1975Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
- 1975Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
- 1977Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler
- 1977Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor
- 1978Pater Sparrow, Hungarian director/production designer
- 1979Oleg Lisogor, Ukrainian swimmer
- 1980Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist
- 1980Kimberly Spicer, American model
- 1980Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer
- 1980Zooey Deschanel, American actress
- 1981Ray J, American R&B singer
- 1981Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
- 1981Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
- 1982Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
- 1982Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
- 1982Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor
- 1983Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
- 1983Johannes Herber, German basketball player
- 1983Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver
- 1984Calvin Harris, Scottish music producer and vocalist
- 1984Sophie Dee, Welsh pornographic actress
- 1985Kang-in, South Korean singer, dancer, actor, MC, and DJ (Super Junior)
- 1985Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer
- 1985Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer (BeForU)
- 1985Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica)
- 1986Hale Appleman, American actor
- 1989Hollie-Jay Bowes, English actress
- 1991Lee Kiseop, Korean singer/actor/model/dancer in boyband U-Kiss
- 1991Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
- 1997Jack Vidgen, Australian singer who won the Australia’s Got Talent in 2011.
Who Died On January 17?
- 395Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (b. 347)
- 1229Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
- 1369King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
- 1468George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
- 1598Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
- 1617Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
- 1654Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
- 1705John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
- 1718Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
- 1737Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
- 1738Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
- 1751Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
- 1826Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
- 1834Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
- 1861Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
- 1863Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
- 1869Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
- 1874Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
- 1878Sir Edward Creasy, English historian (b. 1812)
- 1884Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
- 1887William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
- 1891George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
- 1893Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1903Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
- 1908Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
- 1909Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
- 1911Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
- 1927Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
- 1931Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
- 1932Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
- 1933Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
- 1936Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
- 1942Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
- 1947Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
- 1947Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
- 1951Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (b. 1903)
- 1952Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
- 1956Blind Alfred Reed, American folk, country, and old-time musician (b. 1880)
- 1961Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
- 1964T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
- 1967Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
- 1970Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
- 1970Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
- 1972Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
- 1977Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
- 1977Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1981Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
- 1983Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
- 1987Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
- 1991King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
- 1992Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
- 1993Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
- 1994Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
- 1994Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
- 1996Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
- 1996Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
- 1996Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
- 1997Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
- 1997Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 1998Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
- 1999Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
- 1999Samantha Reid, American girl killed by GHB overdose (b. 1984)
- 2000Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
- 2001Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
- 2002Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
- 2002Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2002Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
- 2003Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
- 2003Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
- 2004Czesław Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
- 2004Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 2004Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
- 2004Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
- 2005Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
- 2005Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
- 2005Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2005Zhao Ziyang, Former Premier of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1919)
- 2006Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
- 2006Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
- 2007Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- 2007Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
- 2008Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2008Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and author (b. 1943)
- 2008Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
- 2009Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
- 2010Daisuke Gouri, Japanese seiyu (b. 1952)
- 2010Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
- 2010Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
- 2010Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician and author (b. 1919)
- 2011Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
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