What happened on July 4? There are more than 355 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 July 4
July 4 is the 186th day of the year 2024. There are 180 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 27th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Fifty Six, Arkansas 72533 sunrise will occur at 05:56 AM and sunset will occur at 08:30 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 209 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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July 4: A Day In History
The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date.
Historical Events For July 4
- 414Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria who reigns as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 836Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples.
- 993Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized.
- 1054A supernova is seen by Chinese, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.
- 1120Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew’s death.
- 1187The Crusades: Battle of Hattin – Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
- 1253Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre.
- 1359Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz.
- 1456The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe)
- 1534Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
- 1569The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating new country known as Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1610The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War.
- 1634The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada)
- 1636City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.
- 1744The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- 1754French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- 1774Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts
- 1776American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
- 1778American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.
- 1802At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
- 1803The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
- 1810The French occupy Amsterdam.
- 1817At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
- 1826Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1827Slavery is abolished in New York State.
- 1831Samuel Francis Smith wrote My Country, 'Tis of Thee for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities.
- 1837Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- 1838The Iowa Territory is organized.
- 1855In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman’s book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
- 1862Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
- 1863American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
- 1863The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North.
- 1865Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is published.
- 1878Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks.
- 1879Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
- 1881In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- 1886The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- 1886The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- 1887The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
- 1892Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
- 1894The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
- 1903Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'.
- 1910African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
- 1913President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- 1918Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- 1918Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- 1927First flight of the Lockheed Vega.
- 1934Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
- 1939Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself “The luckiest man on the face of the earth” as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.
- 1941Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
- 1943World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle at Prokhorovka village.
- 1946After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
- 1947The “Indian Independence Bill” is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries – India and Pakistan.
- 1950The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
- 1951A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
- 1960Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
- 1966President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year.
- 1969Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives.
- 1976Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
- 1977The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
- 1982Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
- 1987In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1993Sumitomo Chemical’s resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
- 1997NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
- 2004The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
- 2005The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
- 2006North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
- 2009The Statue of Liberty’s crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
Who Were Born On July 4?
- 68Salonina Matidia, niece of Emperor Trajan (d. 119)
- 1330Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367)
- 1546Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595)
- 1694Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772)
- 1715Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769)
- 1719Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
- 1790George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866)
- 1799King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (d. 1859)
- 1804Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864)
- 1807Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882)
- 1816Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
- 1826Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864)
- 1845Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905)
- 1847James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906)
- 1854Bill Tilghman, American peace officer (d. 1924)
- 1854Victor Babeş, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926)
- 1867Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (d. 1930)
- 1868Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921)
- 1872Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933)
- 1874Sir John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
- 1881Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968)
- 1882Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957)
- 1883Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970)
- 1895Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996)
- 1896Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981)
- 1897Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1924)
- 1898Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997)
- 1898Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952)
- 1902George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992)
- 1902Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983)
- 1903Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986)
- 1904Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976)
- 1905Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991)
- 1907Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958)
- 1907Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996)
- 1910Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1911Mitch Miller, American entertainer (d. 2010)
- 1912Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
- 1916Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)
- 1917Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947)
- 1918Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
- 1918Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
- 1918Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
- 1918King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006)
- 1920Fritz Wilde, German footballer (d. 1977)
- 1920Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007)
- 1920Norm Drucker, American basketball referee
- 1921Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1921Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003)
- 1923Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1924Eva Marie Saint, American actress
- 1926Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer
- 1927Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
- 1927Neil Simon, American playwright
- 1928Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- 1928Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer
- 1929Al Davis, American businessman
- 1929Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1929Peter Angelos, majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team
- 1930Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993)
- 1930George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010)
- 1930Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
- 1931Sébastien Japrisot, French author, film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- 1931Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977)
- 1932Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
- 1934Colin Welland, English actor
- 1934Peter Behn, American voice actor
- 1935Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
- 1936Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura soprano
- 1937Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
- 1937Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
- 1938Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
- 1938Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder
- 1940Karolyn Grimes, American actress
- 1941Brian Willson, American peace activist
- 1941Sam Farr, American politician
- 1942Floyd Little, American football player
- 1942Hal Lanier, American baseball player
- 1942Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008)
- 1943Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, American musician (d. 1970)
- 1943Emerson Boozer, American football player
- 1943Geraldo Rivera, American reporter
- 1943Konrad “Conny” Bauer, German musician
- 1943Milan Máčala, Czech football coach
- 1944Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire
- 1944Ray Meagher, Australian actor
- 1945Bruce French, American actor
- 1946Ed O'Ross, American actor
- 1946Michael Milken, American financier
- 1946Ron Kovic, American peace activist
- 1946Tish Howard, American model
- 1948Ed Armbrister, baseball player
- 1948Jeremy Spencer, English musician
- 1948Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the National Offender Management Service
- 1948René Arnoux, French race car driver
- 1948Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
- 1950David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ
- 1950Philip Craven, British International Paralympic Committee president
- 1951Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician
- 1952Álvaro Uribe, President of Colombia
- 1954Jim Beattie, American baseball player
- 1954Morganna Roberts, American entertainer
- 1955John Waite, English singer
- 1956Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host
- 1957Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
- 1957Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat
- 1958Carl Valentine, English-born Canadian former footballer
- 1958Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician
- 1958Steve Hartman, American sports radio host
- 1959Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
- 1960Barry Windham, American professional wrestler
- 1960Mark Steel, British socialist columnist and comedian
- 1960Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994)
- 1960Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
- 1961Richard Garriott, English video game designer
- 1962Neil Morrissey, English actor
- 1962Pam Shriver, American former tennis player
- 1963Henri Leconte, French former tennis player
- 1963José Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1963William Ramallo, former Bolivian footballer
- 1964Cle Kooiman, American soccer player
- 1964Mark Slaughter, American singer
- 1964Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor
- 1965Harvey Grant, American basketball player
- 1965Horace Grant, American basketball player
- 1965Jo Whiley, English radio DJ
- 1966Lee Reherman, American actor
- 1966Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer
- 1967Andy Walker (journalist), Canadian television personality
- 1967Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
- 1967Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player
- 1968Jack Frost, American musician
- 1968Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress and impressionist
- 1969Todd Marinovich, American football player
- 1969Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean soccer player
- 1970Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator)
- 1970Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer
- 1971Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician
- 1971Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
- 1971Koko, sign-language gorilla
- 1971Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player
- 1972Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player
- 1972Nina Badrić, Croatian singer
- 1972Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler
- 1972Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer
- 1972William Goldsmith, American drummer (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters)
- 1973Elton Williams, Montserratian footballer
- 1973Gackt, Japanese musician
- 1973Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver
- 1973Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver
- 1973Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer
- 1973Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player
- 1974Adrian Griffin, American basketball player
- 1974La'Roi Glover, American football player
- 1974Vince Spadea, American tennis player
- 1975Tania Davis, Australian violist
- 1976Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
- 1976Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier
- 1977Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry)
- 1978Becki Newton, American actress
- 1978Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer
- 1978Katia Zygouli, Greek model
- 1978Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak)
- 1978Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress
- 1979Renny Vega, Venezuelan soccer player
- 1980Kwame Steede, Bermudan footballer
- 1980Max Elliott Slade, American film actor
- 1981Dédé, Angolan soccer player
- 1981Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
- 1982Hannah Harper, English porn star
- 1983Andy Mrotek, American musician
- 1983Ben Jorgensen, American musician
- 1983Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model
- 1983Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer
- 1983Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor and singer
- 1983Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer
- 1984Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer
- 1984Gina Glocksen, American singer
- 1984Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
- 1985Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer
- 1986Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese soccer player
- 1986Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer
- 1987Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer
- 1990Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese football player
- 1990David Kross, German actor
- 1990Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian soccer player
- 1990Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
- 1990Rishadi Fauzi, Indonesian soccer player
- 1993Thomas Barkhuizen, English footballer
Who Died On July 4?
- 907Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria
- 943Taejo of Goryeo, of Korea (b. 877)
- 965Pope Benedict V (b. unknown)
- 973Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
- 1187Raynald of Chatillon, French Second Crusade figure (b.c. 1125)
- 1541Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (b. 1495)
- 1546Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-born Turkish naval officer (b. 1478)
- 1551Gregory Cromwell, English nobleman (b. 1514)
- 1603Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
- 1623William Byrd, English composer
- 1642Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (b. 1573)
- 1648Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1601)
- 1742Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (b. 1671)
- 1754Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
- 1761Samuel Richardson, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1780Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (b. 1712)
- 1787Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (b. 1715)
- 1821Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
- 1826John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (b. 1735)
- 1826Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (b. 1743)
- 1831James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)
- 1848François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (b. 1768)
- 1850William Kirby, English entomologist (b. 1759)
- 1854Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (b. 1781)
- 1857William L. Marcy, American statesman (b. 1786)
- 1881Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (b. 1806)
- 1882Joseph Brackett, American composer (b. 1797)
- 1891Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (b. 1809)
- 1901Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (b. 1843)
- 1902Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1863)
- 1905Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
- 1910Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
- 1910Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (b. 1833)
- 1916Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
- 1918Tsar Nicholas II, last Emperor of Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution (b. 1868)
- 1922Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1894)
- 1926Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (b. 1901)
- 1931Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (b. 1895)
- 1931Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1869)
- 1934Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
- 1938Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (b. 1881)
- 1938Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
- 1941Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
- 1946Gerda Steinhoff, Polish-born German concentration camp overseer (b. 1922)
- 1948Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (b. 1882)
- 1963Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander statesman (b. 1889)
- 1964Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American radio personality (b. 1908)
- 1970Barnett Newman, American artist (b. 1905)
- 1970Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (b. 1884)
- 1971August Derleth, American writer and editor (b. 1909)
- 1974Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, Palestinian Muslim nationalist (b. 1895 or 1897)
- 1975Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902)
- 1976Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
- 1976Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and Entebbe rescue commander (b. 1946)
- 1977Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (b. 1918)
- 1979Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (b. 1905)
- 1980Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (b. 1895)
- 1982Terry Higgins, British AIDS victim (b. 1945)
- 1984Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1986Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1903)
- 1986Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
- 1988Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (b. 1954)
- 1989Jack Haig, British actor (b. 1913)
- 1991Art Sansom, American cartoonist (The Born Loser) (b. 1920)
- 1991Victor Chang, Australian physician (b. 1936)
- 1992Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (b. 1921)
- 1993Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (b. 1903)
- 1994Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
- 1995Bob Ross, American artist and television host (b. 1942)
- 1995Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (b. 1919)
- 1997Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (b. 1934)
- 1997John Zachary Young, English zoologist (b. 1907)
- 1999Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b. 1917)
- 2000Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
- 2001Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (b. 1974)
- 2002Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general (b. 1912)
- 2002Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (b. 1951)
- 2002Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (b. 1904)
- 2003André Claveau, French singer (b. 1915)
- 2003Barry White, American singer (b. 1944)
- 2004Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), British street entertainer (b. 1932)
- 2004Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
- 2005Hank Stram, American football coach (b. 1923)
- 2007Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (b. 1979)
- 2007Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (b. 1925)
- 2008Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
- 2008Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
- 2008Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
- 2008Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980)
- 2009Allen Klein, American music executive (b. 1931)
- 2009Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2009Drake Levin, American rock musician (b. 1946)
- 2009Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
- 2009Jim Chapin, American drummer (b. 1919)
- 2009Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish writer (b. 1935)
- 2009Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
- 2010Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (b. 1935)
- 2011Otto von Habsburg, last crown prince of Austria-Hungary and MEP (1979–1999) (b. 1912)
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