What happened on October 14? There are more than 321 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 October 14
October 14 is the 288th day of the year 2024. There are 78 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 42nd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Thomasville, Pennsylvania 17364 sunrise will occur at 07:16 AM and sunset will occur at 06:30 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 14
- 222Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome’s Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I.
- 1066Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.
- 1322Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland’s independence.
- 1465Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
- 1582Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1586Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
- 1656Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
- 1758Seven Years’ War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk.
- 1773Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company’s tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1773The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1805Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria.
- 1806Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia.
- 1808The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
- 1812Work on London’s Regent’s Canal starts.
- 1840The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
- 1843The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes.
- 1863American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station – Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- 1867The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan
- 1882University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
- 1884The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
- 1888Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 1898The steamer ship SS Mohegan sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
- 1908The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
- 1910The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 1912While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
- 1913Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
- 1920Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
- 1925An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
- 1926The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
- 1933Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.
- 1938The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company’s P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
- 1939The GS U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
- 1940Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain.
- 1943Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp’s 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
- 1943The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
- 1944Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government.
- 1947Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight.
- 1949Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China.
- 1949Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
- 1952Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
- 1956Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
- 1957Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
- 1958The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1958The District of Columbia’s Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys.
- 1962The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
- 1964Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR.
- 1966The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
- 1967The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army’s induction center in Oakland, California.
- 1968An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
- 1968Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
- 1968The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A.
- 1968Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
- 1968Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
- 1969The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world.
- 1973In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
- 1979The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws 200,000 people.
- 1981Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
- 1981Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
- 1982U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
- 1983Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
- 1994The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
- 1998Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 2003Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins. This has become known as the Steve Bartman incident.
- 2004A special nine-member council selects Norodom Sihamoni as the new King of Cambodia, replacing his father who abdicated a week earlier.
- 2006College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.
Who Were Born On October 14?
- 1257King Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)
- 1404Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463)
- 1493Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
- 1499Claude of France, wife of Francis I of France (d. 1524)
- 1542Akbar the Great, 3rd Mughal Emperor (d. 1605)
- 1630Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)
- 1633James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)
- 1639Simon van der Stel the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa (d. 1712)
- 1643Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712)
- 1644William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
- 1687Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1712George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
- 1726Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)
- 1733François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
- 1784King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
- 1790Thursday October Christian (d. 1831)
- 1801Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)
- 1806Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)
- 1840Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (d. 1868)
- 1842Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
- 1853Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
- 1861Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
- 1869Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939)
- 1873Jules Rimet, French football administrator (d. 1954)
- 1873Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)
- 1882Éamon de Valera, Irish political leader (d. 1975)
- 1882Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
- 1884Jimmy Conlin, American actor d. 1962
- 1888Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)
- 1890Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
- 1892Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)
- 1893Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1894E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1902Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
- 1904Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)
- 1906Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
- 1906Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949)
- 1907Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
- 1908Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
- 1909Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938)
- 1909Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
- 1910John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
- 1911Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)
- 1914Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
- 1914Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1914Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)
- 1916C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General
- 1918Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
- 1926Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
- 1926Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor and tv personality (d. 1985)
- 1927Roger Moore, English actor
- 1928Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)
- 1929Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
- 1930Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
- 1930Robert Parker, American R&B singer and musician
- 1931Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
- 1932Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
- 1932Dyanne Thorne, American actress
- 1932Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1935La Monte Young, American composer
- 1936Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and football-manager
- 1938Empress Farah Diba of Iran
- 1938John W. Dean III, American Watergate figure
- 1938Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
- 1939Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
- 1939Rocky Thompson, American golfer
- 1940Christopher Timothy, British actor
- 1940Cliff Richard, English singer
- 1940Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
- 1941Art Shamsky, American baseball player
- 1941Jerry Glanville, American football coach
- 1942Evelio Javier, Filipino politician and civil servant (d. 1986)
- 1942Péter Nádas, Hungarian writer
- 1944Udo Kier, German actor
- 1945Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)
- 1945Daan Jippes, Dutch cartoonist
- 1946Al Oliver, American baseball player
- 1946Craig Venter, American biologist
- 1946Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)
- 1946James Robert Kennedy, American football coach
- 1946Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues)
- 1947Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist
- 1947Norman Harris, American musician (The Trammps)
- 1948David Ruprecht, American game show host
- 1948Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
- 1949Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949Katha Pollitt, American writer
- 1949Katy Manning, English-born Australian actress
- 1950Joey Travolta, American actor
- 1951Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
- 1952Harry Anderson, American actor
- 1952Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast
- 1953Greg Evigan, American actor
- 1953Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
- 1954Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
- 1956Beth Daniel, American golfer
- 1957Kenny Neal, American blues singer & guitarist
- 1957Michel Després, Quebec politician
- 1958Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician
- 1958Thomas Dolby, English musician
- 1959A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister)
- 1960Steve Cram, English athlete
- 1961Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
- 1962Chris Thomas King, New Orleans based blues musician and actor
- 1962Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
- 1963Alessandro Safina, Italian operatic tenor
- 1963Lori Petty, American actress
- 1963Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
- 1964David Kaye, Canadian actor
- 1964Jim Rome, American sports talk show host
- 1964Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
- 1964Olu Oguibe, American artist
- 1965Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
- 1965Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
- 1965Karyn White, American singer
- 1965Steve Coogan, English actor
- 1966Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
- 1967Jason Plato, English Racing driver
- 1967Pat Kelly, American baseball player
- 1967Savanna Samson, American porn star
- 1967Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist
- 1967Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968Johnny Goudie, American musician
- 1968Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
- 1969Christophe Agou, French photographer
- 1969David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1969P. J. Brown, American basketball player
- 1970Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
- 1970Jim Jackson, American basketball player
- 1970Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
- 1970Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
- 1971Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
- 1973Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
- 1973Sergio Pinheiro, Portuguese Folk Singer
- 1974Jessica Drake, American porn star
- 1974Joseph Utsler, American musician
- 1974Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
- 1974Samuel, Brazilian footballer
- 1974Viktor Röthlin, Swiss marathoner
- 1975Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- 1975Michael Duberry, English Footballer (Oxford United F.C.)
- 1975Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
- 1976Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion
- 1976Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
- 1976Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
- 1976Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan Cricketer
- 1977Barry Ditewig, Dutch football goalkeeper
- 1977Bianca Beauchamp, adult model
- 1977Jeff Garcia, American voice actor
- 1977Joey Didulica, Croatian football goalkeeper
- 1977Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
- 1977Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
- 1977Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
- 1978Javon Walker, American football player
- 1978Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
- 1978Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
- 1978Ryan Church, American baseball player
- 1978Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
- 1978Usher, American singer and actor
- 1979Stacy Keibler, American actress and professional wrestler
- 1980Ben Whishaw, English actor
- 1980Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
- 1980Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980Scott Kooistra, American football player
- 1980Terrence McGee, American football player
- 1981Boof Bonser, American baseball player
- 1981Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
- 1982Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player
- 1982Matt Roth, American football player
- 1982Ryan Hall, American marathoner
- 1983Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
- 1983Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
- 1983Vanessa Lane, American porn star
- 1984LaRon Landry, American football player
- 1985Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
- 1985Daniel Clark, American actor
- 1985Sherlyn, Mexican actress
- 1986Skyler Shaye, American actress
- 1986Tom Craddock, English footballer
- 1988MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
- 1988Mario Titone, Italian footballer
- 1988Max Thieriot, American actor
- 1988Pia Toscano, American Singer
- 1988Will Atkinson, English footballer
- 1989Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
- 1990Alexandra Krosney, American actress
- 1991Shona McGarty, English actress
- 1992Savannah Outen, American singer
Who Died On October 14?
- 1066Harold Godwinson, King of England (b. 1022)
- 1092Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (b. 1018)
- 1256Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
- 1318Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1280)
- 1552Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)
- 1565Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
- 1568Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
- 1610Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
- 1619Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)
- 1637Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
- 1660Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)
- 1669Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)
- 1703Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)
- 1711Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1758Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
- 1792Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
- 1831Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
- 1911John Marshall Harlan, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)
- 1923Marcellus Emants, Dutch novelist (b. 1848)
- 1929Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (b. 1844)
- 1930Samuel van Houten, Dutch politician (b. 1837)
- 1944Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
- 1958Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)
- 1959Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- 1960Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)
- 1961Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
- 1961Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)
- 1965Randall Jarrell, American poet and essayist (b. 1914)
- 1967Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
- 1969Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
- 1973Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier (b. 1929)
- 1973Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)
- 1976Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
- 1977Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
- 1983Johannes O., Dutch murderer (b. 1916)
- 1983Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (b. 1887)
- 1984Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
- 1985Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
- 1986Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1989Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959)
- 1990Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)
- 1997Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 1998Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)
- 1998Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
- 1999Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)
- 2000Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
- 2002Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
- 2003Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)
- 2004Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
- 2005Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
- 2006Chun Wei Cheung, Dutch rowing cox and Olympic silver medallist (b. 1972)
- 2006Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
- 2006Gerry Studds, American politician (b. 1937)
- 2006Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
- 2006Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist (b. 1926)
- 2006Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
- 2006Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
- 2007Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
- 2007Judy Crichton, American television documentary producer (b. 1929)
- 2007Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
- 2008Richard Cooey, American convicted murderer and rapist (b. 1967)
- 2008Robert Furman, American civil engineer and WWII intelligence officer (b. 1915)
- 2009Captain Lou Albano, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1933)
- 2009Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
- 2009Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor (b. 1938)
- 2010Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2010Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (b. 1952)
- 2011Reg Alcock, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
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