2823 events
Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917)
Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (born 1936)
Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917)
Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930)
Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1931)
Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1907)
Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (born 1913)
Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, third Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1930)
Abulfaz Elchibey, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (born 1938)
Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)
Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (born 1927)
Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (born 1898)
Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (born 1910)
Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (born 1945)
Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (born 1974)
Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1901)
Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (born 1917)
Omer Côté, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1906)