Events, Births and Deaths Today (May 17) In History.

Events 

• 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
• 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason.
• 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
• 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (1612–1676) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.
• 1673 – Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec.
• 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
• 1805 – Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
• 1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.
• 1814 – Occupation of Monaco changes from French to Austrian.
• 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
• 1849 – A large fire nearly burns St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.
• 1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
• 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
• 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.
• 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
• 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• 1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
• 1915 – The last British Liberal Party government (led by Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
• 1933 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
• 1939 – The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
• 1940 – World War II: the old city centre of the Dutch town of Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in Zeeland.
• 1943 – The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.
• 1943 – World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
• 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping UN Emergency Force in Egypt.
• 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
• 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
• 1974 – Police in Los Angeles, California, raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
• 1974 – Thirty-three civilians are killed and over 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explodes car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. It is the highest number of casualties in any one day during The Troubles. An Irish parliament committee, and others, allege that British security forces were involved.
• 1980 – General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea seizes control of the government and declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations.
• 1980 – On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho, starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• 1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
• 1983 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
• 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
• 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
• 1992 – Three days of popular protests against the government of Prime Minister of Thailand Suchinda Kraprayoon begin in Bangkok, leading to a military crackdown that results in 52 officially confirmed deaths, many disappearances, hundreds of injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.
• 1994 – Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
• 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2004 – Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.
• 2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
• 2007 – Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.

Births 

• 1155 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225)
• 1443 – Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (d. 1460)
• 1551 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (d. 1601)
• 1571 – William White, English composer (d. 1634)
• 1628 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (d. 1662)
• 1682 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
• 1706 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780)
• 1718 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)
• 1732 – Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, English musician and composer (d. 1781)
• 1732 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1817)
• 1743 – Seth Warner, American soldier (d. 1784)
• 1749 – Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist (d. 1823)
• 1758 – Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet, English fossil collector (d. 1839)
• 1768 – Caroline of Brunswick (d. 1821)
• 1768 – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (d. 1854)
• 1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, English writer (d. 1860)
• 1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (d. 1900)
• 1836 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (d. 1923)
• 1844 – Julius Wellhausen, German scholar (d. 1918)
• 1845 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (d. 1902)
• 1860 – Martin Kukučín, Slovak writer (d. 1928)
• 1863 – Léon Gérin, Canadian civil servant and sociologist (d. 1951)
• 1864 – Louis Richardet, Swiss sports shooter (d. 1923)
• 1866 – Erik Satie, French composer (d. 1925)
• 1868 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer, co-founder of Dodge (d. 1920)
• 1873 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (d. 1935)
• 1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English writer (d. 1957)
• 1874 – George Sheldon, American diver (d. 1907)
• 1886 – Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
• 1888 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress and survivor of RMS Titanic (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (d. 1959)
• 1891 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (d. 1957)
• 1895 – Saul Adler Israeli expert on Parasitology (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian super-centenarian (d. 2010)
• 1897 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Alfred Joseph Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992)
• 1901 – Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Jean Gabin, French actor (d. 1976)
• 1906 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Julius Sumner Miller, American physicist (d. 1987)
• 1911 – Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Ace Parker, American baseball and football player
• 1913 – Hans Ruesch, Swiss race car driver (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Robert N. Thompson, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
• 1918 – A. C. Lyles, American film producer
• 1919 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1919 – Merle Miller, American biographer (d. 1986)
• 1920 – Harry Männil, Estonian businessman (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Dennis Brain, English-French horn player (d. 1957)
• 1921 – Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist (d. 1981)
• 1931 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader of Heaven's Gate (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German politician
• 1934 – Ronald Wayne, American computer scientist and author, co-founder of Apple Inc.
• 1935 – Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Hazel R. O'Leary, American politician, 7th United States Secretary of Energy
• 1938 – Jason Bernard, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1938 – Pervis Jackson, American singer (The Spinners) (d. 2008)
• 1939 – Gary Paulsen, American author
• 1940 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
• 1940 – Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
• 1941 – David Cope, American composer and author
• 1941 – Ben Nelson, American politician, 40th Governor of Nebraska & Senator
• 1941 – Grace Zabriskie, American actress
• 1942 – Taj Mahal, American singer-songwriter and musician (Rising Sons)
• 1943 – Johnny Warren, Australian footballer (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Jesse Winchester, singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1945 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
• 1945 – B. S. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
• 1946 – Udo Lindenberg, German singer, musician, and composer (Passport)
• 1946 – F. Paul Wilson, American novelist
• 1947 – Andrew Latimer, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Camel)
• 1948 – Dick Gaughan, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (The Boys of the Lough)
• 1949 – Bill Bruford, English drummer and songwriter (Yes, King Crimson, UK, Earthworks, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, and National Health)
• 1950 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (d. 1991)
• 1950 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician (d. 2008)
• 1950 – Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician, dissident, founder and chairwoman of the Democratic Union party
• 1951 – Simon Hughes, English politician
• 1952 – Howard Hampton, Canadian politician
• 1953 – Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer and musician (Sumo and Hurlingham Reggae Band)
• 1953 – Kathleen Sullivan, American journalist
• 1955 – Bill Paxton, American actor and director
• 1955 – David Townsend, American singer-songwriter and musician (Surface) (d. 2005)
• 1956 – Sugar Ray Leonard, American boxer and actor
• 1956 – Bob Saget, American comedian, actor, and television host
• 1956 – Dave Sim, Canadian cartoonist
• 1957 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player (d. 2012)
• 1958 – Paul Di'Anno, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Gogmagog)
• 1958 – Paul Whitehouse, Welsh actor, writer and comedian
• 1959 – Marcelo Loffreda, Argentine rugby player and coach
• 1959 – Jim Nantz, American broadcaster
• 1960 – Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
• 1961 – Jamil Azzaoui, Quebec singer, songwriter and artist agent
• 1961 – Enya, Irish singer-songwriter and producer (Clannad)
• 1962 – Craig Ferguson, Scottish comedian, actor, and television host
• 1962 – Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
• 1962 – Jane Moore, English journalist
• 1963 – Jon Koncak, American basketball player
• 1963 – Page McConnell, American musician and songwriter (Phish, Vida Blue, and Phil Lesh and Friends)
• 1964 – Stratos Apostolakis, Greek footballer
• 1964 – David Eigenberg, American actor
• 1964 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (d. 1999)
• 1965 – Trent Reznor, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and producer (Nine Inch Nails, How to Destroy Angels, and Tapeworm)
• 1965 – Paige Turco, American actress
• 1965 – Jeremy Vine, English journalist and presenter
• 1966 – Hill Harper, American actor
• 1966 – Mark Kratzmann, Australian tennis player
• 1966 – Danny Manning, American basketball player
• 1966 – Qusay Hussein, Son of Saddam Hussein (d. 2003)
• 1967 – Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian politician 4th President of the Maldives
• 1969 – Tabatha Coffey, Australian hairstylist
• 1969 – Alan Doyle, Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and actor (Great Big Sea)
• 1969 – Thom Filicia, American interior designer
• 1970 – Jordan Knight, American singer-songwriter (New Kids on the Block)
• 1970 – Hubert Davis, American basketball player
• 1970 – Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer, actress, and model
• 1970 – Matt Lindland, American mixed martial artist
• 1970 – René Vilbre, Estonian film director
• 1971 – Shaun Hart, Australian footballer
• 1971 – Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
• 1972 – Roman Genn, Russian artist
• 1973 – Josh Homme, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1973 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1973 – Sasha Alexander, American actress
• 1973 – Steve Barakatt, Canadian singer, composer, producer, and pianist
• 1974 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (The Corrs)
• 1974 – Wiki González, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1974 – Eddie Lewis, American footballer
• 1974 – Sendhil Ramamurthy, American actor
• 1975 – Cheick Kongo, French martial artist
• 1975 – Jonti Picking, English cartoonist
• 1975 – Kostas Sommer, Greek actor
• 1975 – Laura Voutilainen, Finnish singer
• 1975 – Alex Wright, German-English wrestler
• 1976 – José Guillén, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Leehom Wang, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and director
• 1978 – John Foster, American baseball player
• 1978 – Paddy Kenny, Irish footballer
• 1978 – Carlos Peña, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Magdalena Zděnovcová, Czech tennis player
• 1979 – Wayne Thomas, English footballer
• 1979 – David Jarolím, Czech footballer
• 1980 – Davor Džalto, Serbian-Croatian historian
• 1980 – Dallas Taylor, American singer-songwriter and musician (Underoath and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster)
• 1981 – Beñat Albizuri, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 – Shiri Maimon, Israeli singer and actress
• 1981 – Leon Osman, English footballer
• 1981 – Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Lim Jeong Hee, Korean singer and musician
• 1982 – Tony Parker, French-American basketball player
• 1982 – Matt Cassel, American football player
• 1982 – Reiko Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
• 1983 – Nicky Hofs, Dutch footballer
• 1983 – Jeremy Sowers, American baseball player
• 1983 – DJ Yonny, American DJ and producer
• 1983 – Chris Henry, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1984 – Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
• 1984 – Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer
• 1985 – Teófilo Gutiérrez, Colombian footballer
• 1985 – Derek Hough, American dancer, singer, and actor (Ballas Hough Band)
• 1985 – Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
• 1985 – Matt Ryan, American football player
• 1985 – Emil Sitoci, Dutch wrestler
• 1985 – Greg Van Avermaet, Belgian cyclist
• 1986 – Tahj Mowry, American actor
• 1987 – Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist
• 1987 – Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
• 1987 – Aleandro Rosi, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Soccer, American dog actor (d. 2001)
• 1988 – Nikki Reed, American actress
• 1988 – Jennison Myrie-Williams, English footballer
• 1989 – Kris Bernal, Filipino actress
• 1989 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 – Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 – Kree Harrison, American singer
• 1990 – Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1990 – Leven Rambin, American actress
• 1991 – Johanna Konta, British tennis player
• 1991 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor
• 1991 – Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper, producer, and actor
• 1994 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipino singer and actress (SugarPop)
• 1996 – Ryan Ochoa, American actor

Deaths 

• 290 – Emperor Wu of Jin, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 236)
• 1189 – Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
• 1336 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (b. 1288)
• 1365 – Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1328)
• 1395 – Constantine Dragaš, Serbian ruler (b. 1355)
• 1464 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1427)
• 1510 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (b. 1445)
• 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1478)
• 1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, English diplomat (b. 1504)
• 1536 – Francis Weston, English courtier and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber (b. 1511)
• 1536 – Henry Norris, English courtier and Groom of the Stool (b. 1482)
• 1536 – William Brereton, English courtier and Groom of the Privy Chamber
• 1536 – Mark Smeaton, English courtier and musician (b. 1512)
• 1551 – Shin Saimdang, Korean writer, artist, and poet (b. 1504)
• 1575 – Matthew Parker, English theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
• 1626 – Joan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer (b. 1570)
• 1643 – Giovanni Picchi, Italian composer (b. 1571/1572)
• 1727 – Catherine I of Russia (b. 1684)
• 1729 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher (b. 1675)
• 1765 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician (b. 1713)
• 1797 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (b. 1719)
• 1801 – William Heberden, English physician (b. 1710)
• 1807 – John Gunby, American soldier (b. 1745)
• 1809 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (b. 1722)
• 1822 – Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (b. 1766)
• 1829 – John Jay, American statesman and diplomat, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1745)
• 1838 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat (b. 1754)
• 1838 – René Caillié, French explorer (b. 1799)
• 1839 – Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
• 1868 – Isami Kondo, Japanese Shinsengumi Commander (b. 1834)
• 1875 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
• 1879 – Asa Packer, American railroad magnate, founder of Lehigh Valley Railroad (b. 1805)
• 1886 – John Deere, American blacksmith and manufacturer, founded the Deere & Company (b. 1804)
• 1888 – Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
• 1911 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (b. 1836)
• 1916 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
• 1917 – Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (b. 1829)
• 1919 – Guido von List, German author (b. 1848)
• 1927 – Harold Geiger, American aviation pioneer (b. 1884)
• 1935 – Paul Dukas, French composer, critic, scholar, and teacher (b. 1865)
• 1936 – Panagis Tsaldaris, Greek politician (b. 1868)
• 1938 – Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (b. 1877)
• 1947 – George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1951 – William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, English general (b. 1865)
• 1963 – John Wilce, American physician and football coach (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895)
• 1966 – Randy Turpin, English boxer (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Ernest Nash, German archaeologist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Charles E. Rosendahl, American vice admiral (b. 1892)
• 1985 – Abe Burrows, American author, composer, and director (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Lawrence Welk, American musician and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Hector "Toe" Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (b. 1966)
• 1996 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)
• 1996 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer and musician (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian producer and musician (b. 1949)
• 2000 – Donald Coggan, English 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Frank G. Slaughter, American novelist and physician (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (b. 1940)
• 2002 – Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish poet and musician (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Pop Ivy, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Jørgen Nash, Danish artist (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Ezzedine Salim, Iraqi politician, author, educator, and theorist, leader of the Iraqi Governing Council (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Cy Feuer, American playwright (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Eric Forth, English politician (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Nichola Goddard, Canadian soldier (b. 1980)
• 2007 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
• 2007 – T. K. Doraiswamy, Indian poet and author (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist, composer, and teacher (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Warda Al-Jazairia, French-Algerian singer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Herbert Breslin, American publicist and music executive (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Sophia Brown, English reality show contestant on Big Brother (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Gideon Ezra, Israeli politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Patrick Mafisango, Rwandan footballer (b. 1980)
• 2012 – Ron Shock, American comedian (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)

Source: Wikipedia