December 16
Events
Pre-1600
- 533 - The Digest, the great collection of all Roman jurists' law, is issued together with a new official law textbook for legal schools, The Institutes.
- 714 - Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille. He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom.
- 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China.
- 1431 - Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.
- 1497 - Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip of Africa, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
- 1575 - An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile.
- 1598 - Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory.
1601–1900
1901–present
- 1905 - In rugby union, the "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
- 1912 - First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
- 1914 - World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
- 1920 - The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5 rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
- 1942 - The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.
- 1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
- 1951 - A Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in Elizabeth, New Jersey, killing all 58 aboard including dancer Doris Ruby.
- 1960 - A United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.
- 1968 - Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
- 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh and Vijay Diwas in India respectively.
- 1971 - The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day.
- 1972 - The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is enacted.
- 1973 - Aeroflot Flight 2022 crashes in the Soviet Union's Volokolamsky District, killing all 51 aboard, including four Lithuanian doctors.
- 1986 - The Jeltoqsan riots erupt in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, in response to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of ethnic Kazakh Dinmukhamed Kunaev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of [Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)|Communist Party of Kazakhstan], and his replacement with Gennady Kolbin, an ethnic Russian from the Russian SFSR.
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
- 1992 - Deportation of Hamas members: Israeli authorities began deporting hundreds of Palestinians suspected to be members of Hamas across the Lebanese border.
- 1997 &ndash Dennō Senshi Porygon: Over 600 kids in Japan suffer photosensitive epileptic seizures after watching an episode of the Pokémon anime.
- 2011 - The Zhanaozen massacre occurs when violent protests by oil workers take place in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, resulting in security forces killing at least 14 and injuring 100 more.
- 2013 - A bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, capital of the Philippines, killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.
- 2014 - Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.
- 2022 - A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1605 - Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat
- 1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
- 1630 - Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, British botanist
- 1714 - George Whitefield, English Anglican priest
- 1716 - Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French poet and diplomat
- 1717 - Elizabeth Carter, English poet and scholar
- 1730 - Diego Silang, Filipino revolutionary leader
- 1742 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
- 1775 - Jane Austen, English novelist
- 1775 - François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer
- 1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher
- 1778 - John Ordronaux, French-American soldier
- 1787 - Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright
- 1790 - Leopold I of Belgium
- 1804 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic
- 1812 - Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales
- 1834 - Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist
- 1836 - Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic
- 1849 - Mary Hartwell Catherwood, American author and poet
- 1861 - Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator
- 1863 - George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet
- 1865 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet
- 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist
- 1867 - Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian
- 1869 - Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
- 1869 - Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer
- 1872 - Anton Denikin, Russian general
- 1882 - Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist
- 1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist
- 1882 - Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer
- 1883 - Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician
- 1883 - Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1884 - John Gunn, Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia
- 1884 - Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor
- 1888 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia
- 1888 - Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general
- 1889 - Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader
- 1895 - Marie Hall Ets, American author and illustrator
- 1896 - Anna Anderson, an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
- 1899 - Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer
- 1900 - Lucille Lortel, American actress and producer
- 1900 - V. S. Pritchett, British writer and literary critic
1901–present
- 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author
- 1902 - Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright
- 1903 - Hardie Albright, American actor
- 1903 - Harold Whitlock, English race walker and coach
- 1905 - Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet
- 1905 - Ruben Nirvi, Finnish linguist and professor
- 1907 - Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American film actress
- 1908 - Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist
- 1910 - Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1913 - George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1914 - O. Winston Link, American photographer
- 1916 - Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide
- 1917 - Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar
- 1917 - Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho
- 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer
- 1920 - Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician
- 1921 - Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1922 - Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records
- 1923 - Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
- 1923 - Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist
- 1924 - Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator
- 1926 - James McCracken, American tenor and actor
- 1926 - A. N. R. Robinson, Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago
- 1926 - Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter
- 1927 - Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet
- 1927 - Randall Garrett, American author and poet
- 1928 - Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer
- 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author
- 1929 - Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor
- 1930 - Bill Brittain, American author
- 1930 - Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist
- 1930 - Bill Young, American sergeant and politician
- 1932 - Grace Alele-Williams, Nigerian mathematician and academic
- 1932 - Quentin Blake, English author and illustrator
- 1932 - Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution
- 1936 - Morris Dees, American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center
- 1937 - Joyce Bulifant, American actress
- 1937 - Edward Ruscha, American painter and photographer
- 1938 - Frank Deford, American journalist and author
- 1938 - Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1939 - Philip Langridge, English tenor
- 1939 - Gordon Miller, English high jumper
- 1941 - Lesley Stahl, American journalist and actress
- 1941 - Roger Neil Wheeler, English general
- 1942 - Donald Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island
- 1943 - Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer
- 1943 - Patti Deutsch, American actress and comedian
- 1944 - Jeff Kanew, American director and screenwriter
- 1944 - Don Meyer, American basketball player and coach
- 1945 - Tony Hicks, English singer and guitarist
- 1946 - Benny Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1946 - Charles Dennis, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1946 - Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichord player and conductor
- 1946 - Tom Stern, American cinematographer
- 1947 - Ben Cross, English actor
- 1947 - Vincent Matthews, American sprinter
- 1947 - Martyn Poliakoff, English chemist and academic
- 1947 - Trevor Żahra, Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator
- 1949 - Billy Gibbons, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1949 - Heather Hallett, English lawyer and judge
- 1950 - Claudia Cohen, American journalist
- 1950 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager
- 1951 - Aykut Barka, Turkish scientist
- 1951 - Sally Emerson, English author and poet
- 1951 - Mike Flanagan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1951 - Robben Ford, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1951 - Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1952 - Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer and manager
- 1952 - Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer and manager
- 1953 - Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress and screenwriter
- 1955 - Xander Berkeley, American actor and producer
- 1955 - Carol Browner, American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- 1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- 1955 - Chiharu Matsuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1956 - Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter
- 1957 - Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 - Bart Oates, American football player and lawyer
- 1958 - Jeff Ruland, American basketball player
- 1959 - H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian social worker and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka
- 1959 - Alison La Placa, American actress
- 1959 - Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman and politician
- 1959 - Steve Mattsson, American author and illustrator
- 1960 - Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler
- 1960 - Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer and manager
- 1961 - André Andersen, Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
- 1961 - Shane Black, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1961 - Bill Hicks, American comedian and musician
- 1961 - LaChanze, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1961 - Sam Robards, American actor
- 1961 - Jon Tenney, American actor and director
- 1962 - Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress
- 1962 - William Perry, American football player and wrestler
- 1963 - Benjamin Bratt, American actor and producer
- 1963 - Cathy Johnston-Forbes, American golfer
- 1963 - James Mangold, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 - Nadia Moscufo, Belgian politician
- 1964 - Heike Drechsler, German sprinter and long jumper
- 1964 - Todd Glass, American comedian
- 1964 - John Kirwan, New Zealand rugby player and coach
- 1964 - Georgie Parker, Australian actress
- 1964 - Billy Ripken, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1965 - Melanie Sloan, American lawyer and activist
- 1965 - J. B. Smoove, American comedian, writer, and actor
- 1966 - Fatima Lamarti, Belgian politician
- 1966 - Paul McGinley, Irish golfer
- 1966 - Clifford Robinson, American basketball player
- 1966 - Dennis Wise, English footballer and manager
- 1967 - Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter and sportscaster
- 1967 - Indrek Kaseorg, Estonian decathlete
- 1967 - Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- 1968 - Wendy Doolan, Australian golfer
- 1968 - Lalah Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1968 - Greg Kovacs, Canadian bodybuilder
- 1969 - Simon Grayson, English footballer and manager
- 1969 - Kent Hehr, Canadian politician
- 1969 - Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
- 1969 - Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
- 1969 - Dmitri Tymoczko, American composer and theorist
- 1969 - Craig White, English cricketer and coach
- 1970 - Valerie Chow, Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist
- 1970 - Daniel Cosgrove, American actor
- 1971 - Seyhan Kurt, French-Turkish poet and sociologist
- 1971 - Paul van Dyk, German musician, producer and DJ
- 1971 - Michael McCary, American R&B singer
- 1972 - Charles Gipson, American baseball player
- 1972 - Zeljko Kalac, Australian soccer player and manager
- 1972 - Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 - Travis Morrison, American singer-songwriter
- 1973 - Themba Mnguni, South African footballer
- 1973 - Scott Storch, American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company
- 1975 - Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer and manager
- 1975 - Kaba Diawara, French-Guinean footballer
- 1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 - Paul Maynard, English politician
- 1976 - Jen Golbeck, American computer scientist and academic
- 1977 - Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 - Sylvain Distin, French footballer
- 1978 - John Morris, Canadian curler and firefighter
- 1978 - Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer and manager
- 1979 - Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
- 1979 - Brodie Lee, American wrestler
- 1979 - Daniel Narcisse, French handball player
- 1979 - Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer-songwriter
- 1979 - Jessie Ward, American wrestler and producer
- 1980 - Danish Kaneria, Pakistani cricketer
- 1981 - Krysten Ritter, American actress, musician, and model
- 1981 - Reanna Solomon, Nauruan weightlifter
- 1981 - Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
- 1982 - Antrel Rolle, American football player
- 1982 - Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter
- 1982 - Stanislav Šesták, Slovak footballer
- 1983 - Kelenna Azubuike, Nigerian-American basketball player
- 1983 - Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1983 - Joey Dorsey, American basketball player
- 1984 - Theo James, English actor
- 1985 - Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1985 - James Nash, English race car driver
- 1985 - Amanda Setton, American actress
- 1986 - Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1986 - Pärt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer, and conductor.
- 1988 - Mats Hummels, German footballer
- 1988 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
- 1988 - Alexey Shved, Russian basketball player
- 1991 - Craig Goodwin, Australian footballer
- 1991 - David Johnson, American football player
- 1992 - Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1992 - Tom Rogic, Australian footballer
- 1993 - Jyoti Amge, Indian actress
- 1993 - Stephan James, Canadian actor
- 1994 - Nigel Hayes, American basketball player
- 1994 - Nicola Murru, Italian footballer
- 1994 - José Rodríguez, Spanish footballer
- 1996 - Wilfred Ndidi, Nigerian footballer
- 1996 - Sergio Reguilón, Spanish footballer
- 1996 - Henry Thornton, Australian cricketer
- 1998 - Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player
- 1998 - Zhou Jieqiong, Chinese singer and actress
- 2001 - Kai Cenat, American streamer
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 604 - Houzhu, emperor of the Chen dynasty
- 705 - Wu Zetian, Empress of the Zhou dynasty
- 714 - Pepin of Herstal, Frankish statesman
- 867 - Eberhard of Friuli, Frankish duke
- 874 - Ado, archbishop of Vienne
- 882 - John VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
- 902 - Wei Yifan, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
- 999 - Adelaide of Italy, Holy Roman Empress
- 1153 - Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, Norman nobleman
- 1263 - Haakon IV, king of Norway
- 1316 - Öljaitü, Mongolian ruler
- 1325 - Charles, French nobleman
- 1378 - Secondotto, marquess of Montferrat
- 1379 - John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, English general and politician, Lord Marshall of England
- 1470 - John II, duke of Lorraine
- 1474 - Ali Qushji, Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist
- 1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India
- 1558 - Thomas Cheney, English diplomat and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
- 1583 - Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
- 1594 - Allison Balfour, Scottish woman accused of witchcraft
- 1598 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean general
1601–1900
- 1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes, English soldier and politician
- 1687 - William Petty, English economist and philosopher
- 1751 - Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1774 - François Quesnay, French economist, physician, and philosopher
- 1783 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and educator
- 1783 - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, Welsh-English commander and politician
- 1805 - Saverio Cassar, Gozitan priest and rebel leader
- 1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist
- 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author
- 1892 - Henry Yesler, American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright
- 1898 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector
1901–present
- 1908 - American Horse, American tribal leader and educator
- 1917 - Frank Gotch, American wrestler
- 1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland
- 1928 - Elinor Wylie, American poet and author
- 1935 - Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian
- 1936 - Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator
- 1940 - Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist
- 1940 - Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager
- 1943 - George Bambridge, English diplomat
- 1944 - Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim
- 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat
- 1945 - Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan
- 1949 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1952 - Robert Henry Best, American journalist
- 1956 - Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter and author
- 1961 - Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer
- 1968 - Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna
- 1968 - Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and politician
- 1969 - Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player
- 1969 - Soe Hok Gie, Indonesian activist and academic
- 1970 - Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of Latin America
- 1974 - Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright
- 1976 - Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician
- 1977 - Risto Jarva, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1980 - Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC
- 1980 - Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer
- 1982 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars
- 1983 - Debs Garms, American baseball player
- 1983 - Mitchell WerBell III, American mercenary
- 1984 - Karl Deichgräber, German philologist and academic
- 1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mobster
- 1985 - Paul Castellano, American mobster
- 1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver
- 1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress
- 1989 - Aileen Pringle, American actress
- 1989 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor
- 1991 - Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress and journalist
- 1993 - Moses Gunn, American actor
- 1993 - Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1996 - Quentin Bell, English historian and author
- 1997 - Lillian Disney, American illustrator and philanthropist
- 1998 - William Gaddis, American author and academic
- 2001 - Stuart Adamson, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 2001 - Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author
- 2003 - Robert Stanfield, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia
- 2003 - Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter
- 2004 - Ted Abernathy, American baseball player
- 2004 - Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point
- 2004 - Agnes Martin, American painter and educator
- 2005 - Kenneth Bulmer, English author
- 2005 - Ed Hansen, American director and screenwriter
- 2005 - John Spencer, American actor
- 2006 - Don Jardine, Canadian wrestler and trainer
- 2006 - Taliep Petersen, South African singer-songwriter and director
- 2006 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist and educator
- 2006 - Stanford J. Shaw, American historian and academic
- 2007 - Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 2009 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman
- 2009 - Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia
- 2009 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African physician and politician, 22nd South African Minister of Health
- 2010 - Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- 2010 - Ayinde Barrister, Nigerian fuji musician
- 2011 - Robert Easton, American actor and screenwriter
- 2011 - Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor
- 2012 - Elwood V. Jensen, American biologist and academic
- 2012 - Jake Adam York, American poet and academic
- 2013 - James Flint, English commander
- 2013 - Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 2013 - Marta Russell, American journalist, author, and activist
- 2014 - Martin Brasier, English paleontologist, biologist, and academic
- 2014 - Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic
- 2014 - Tahira Qazi, Pakistani educationist and principal of Army Public School Peshawar who was killed in the Peshawar school attack.
- 2015 - Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet
- 2015 - Lizmark, Mexican wrestler
- 2015 - George Earl Ortman, American painter and sculptor
- 2017 - Keely Smith, American singer and actress
- 2023 - Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
- 2024 - Dick Van Arsdale, American basketball player
- 2024 - Tulsi Gowda, Indian environmentalist
- 2025 - Lusanda Dumke, South African professional rugby union player who played as a flanker
Holidays and observances