2014 Event A male of the rare northern white rhino species has been found dead at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya; only six animals remain in the world, of which only one is a breeding male 2014 Event L'Wren Scott, the 49-year-old model, designer and longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger, is found dead in her apartment 2013 Event In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Australian pledges $10 million to help with major clean-up and relief efforts in Vietnam, where over people in a single province are feared dead 2013 Event In Colorado, thousands are evacuated due to heavy floods in Boulder County; four people are reported dead and 80 missing 2013 Event In Cebu, Philippines, 200 are missing and at least 26 are dead after a cargo ship and the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas collide 2013 Event A boat carrying asylum seekers capsizes north of Christmas Island; Australian authorities rescue 88 people and 9 are feared dead 2013 Event Ibragim Todashev, a suspect under FBI questioning in Orlando, Florida, for his connections to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, is shot dead after attacking an agent during the course of questioning 2013 Event In southwest China, environmental and health concerns among residents are raised when 1,000 dead ducks pulled from the Sichuan River 2012 Event Typhoon Bolaven hits South Korea. leaving at least four Chinese fishermen dead and another twelve missing 2012 Event The last known Pinta Island Tortoise, Lonesome George, is found dead in the Galapagos Islands 2012 Event Europe's cold wave continues, with over 400 dead; the Danube River freezes over for 170 km 2011 Event The U.S. has its deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in 25 years; the listeriosis outbreak totals 23 dead, with 116 affected 2010 Event Santiago, Nuevo Leon's mayor, Edelmiro Cavazos is found dead, handcuffed and blindfolded after being abducted Sunday night 2010 Event Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison 2010 Event In Zhouqu, China, new landslides leave 29 people dead and 10,500 trapped 2010 Event Jean Leonard Rugambage, a Rwandan journalist, is shot dead in front of his home in Kigali; the exiled chief editor of Umuvugizi believes the government is responsible 2010 Event At last count, 76 people are dead while hundreds have disappeared after a train crash in the Republic of Congo caused the train to fall into a ravine 2010 Event Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh and Jalal-Abad left more than 100 people dead and over 1,400 injured after three days of four days of fighting 2010 Event At least 32 people are dead and 68 injured from floods and mudslides on the island of Madeira, Portugal 2006 Event Slobodan Milosevic found dead in cell in the Hague 2000 Death Christopher Pettiet, actor, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, dies at 24 1997 Death Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84 1997 Death Willem de Kooning, abstract artist, dead Alzheimer's at 92 1997 Death Notorius B I G, Biggie Small, Chris Walkin, rapper, shot dead at 24 1997 Event Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm 1996 Death Murtaza Bhutto, politician, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was sentenced to death by Lahore High Court, dies at 42 in Karachi, Pakistan, shot dead along with six other activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party 1996 Death Jonathan Larson, composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35 1995 Death Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53 1995 Death George Romney, politician, dead Heart attack, dies at 88 1995 Event Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators 1995 Event Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 shite mosque goers dead 1994 Death Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead 1994 Event Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden 1994 Death Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 1994 Death Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 1994 Event Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons 1994 Event Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead 1993 Event Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead 1993 Event Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead 1993 Death James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina 1993 Death Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66 1993 Death Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86 1992 Death Gert Nastian, general and companion of Petra Kelly, found dead at 69 1992 Death Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 Death Morris Carnovsky, U.S. actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94 1992 Event England honors her dead soldiers in the Falkland Is war 1991 Event Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history 1991 Event California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public 1990 Death Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48 1989 Event "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres 1989 Death Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47 1988 Event 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless 1988 Event 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome 1988 Death Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia 1988 Death Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 1988 Death Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68 1988 Event 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers 1987 Event Ben and Jerry Ice Cream and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia 1987 Event Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead 1986 Event Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 1986 Event Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead 1986 Event Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma 1986 Event Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas 1986 Event To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV 1986 Event English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead 1985 Death Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda 1985 Death Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief, shot dead at a New York City restaurant 1985 Death Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72 1984 Death Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead 1984 Event Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead 1984 Death Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45 1984 Death Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead 1984 Death Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead 1983 Death Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA 1983 Event Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead 1982 Death Duk Koo Kim, S Korean boxer, legally declared dead 1982 Event Attack on synagouge in Rome, 1 dead 1982 Event 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador 1981 Event Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured 1980 Event Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead 1980 Event Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement 1980 Death Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73 1979 Death Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 31 1979 Birthday Mena Suvari, born in Newport, Rhode Island, actress, fashion designer, movies include: 'American Beauty', 'American Pie', 'Day of the Dead' 1978 Death Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80 1978 Event Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt 1978 Event Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 1978 Event Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead 1978 Event Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) 1977 Death Jean Hagen, actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena), dies at 54 1975 Death Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead 1975 Event 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead 1975 Event New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead" 1975 Event Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris 1975 Death Al Lettieri, actor (Beautiful but Deadly, Don is Dead), dies at 47 1975 Event Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack 1973 Death Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50 1973 Event Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession 1973 Death Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27 1973 Event Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California 1971 Death Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48 1971 Event 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice 1971 Death Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 1970 Death Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69 1970 Birthday Ethan Hawke, born in Austin, Texas, actor, Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers 1970 Death ... Haley, U.S. judge, shot dead 1970 Death James McClain, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Death Jonathan P Jackson, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Death William Christmas, U.S. black activist, shot dead 1970 Event Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. 1970 Event Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges 1969 Birthday Jacqueline Hennessy, Edmonton, actress, Dead Ringers 1969 Event Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead) 1969 Event Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead 1969 Birthday Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge 1968 Event "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh 1967 Event Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents 1967 Event Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead and plays the Straightater 1967 Birthday Nicole Kidman, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, actress, Dead Calm, Far and Away 1967 Birthday Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk 1967 Event Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," premieres 1966 Event Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead 1966 Death Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22 1966 Birthday John Cusack, born in Chicago, actor, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead 1966 Death Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home 1965 Death Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42 1963 Death Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby 1962 Death Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 1962 Birthday Steve Coy, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round 1962 Death Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 1961 Birthday Tim Lever, keyboard/sax, Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round 1961 Birthday Kassie Wesley, born in Kentucky, actress, Evil Dead 2, Blair-One Life to Live 1961 Birthday Mike Percy, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round 1960 Birthday Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again 1960 Event Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea 1959 Birthday Pete Burns, rocker, Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round 1958 Birthday Jello Biafra, born in Boulder, Colorado, born Eric Reed Boucher, musician, politician, anarchist, leading figure of the Green Party, wrote music for 'Dead Kennedy's' 1958 Birthday Rik Mayall, comedian, Drop Dead Fred, Bottom, Little Noises 1957 Birthday Laurie Mann, geek, Dead People Server curator since 1997 1955 Birthday Cathy Ladman, comedienne, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 1955 Birthday Bill Paxton, actor, Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies 1955 Birthday Penn Jillette, born in Massachusetts, magician, Penn and Teller-Penn and Teller are Dead 1955 Event Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls 1952 Death Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 1950 Death Griselio Torresola, attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead 1950 Death Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1949 Birthday William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist, Grateful Dead, Tubes 1948 Birthday Keith Godchaux, rock keyboardist, Grateful Dead 1947 Birthday Sam Neill, Northern Ireland, actor, Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano 1947 Birthday Donna Godchaux, rocker, Grateful Dead 1947 Death Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal 1946 Death Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20 1946 Birthday Bill Kreutzmann, born in Palo Alto California, drummer, Grateful Dead 1945 Birthday Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, California, rocker, Grateful Dead, Grass Roots 1945 Event Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead 1944 Birthday Jane Lapotaire, actress, Spirit of the Dead 1944 Birthday Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society 1944 Event Nazi Paul Touvier shoots 7 Jews dead 1944 Event Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 U.S. soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats 1943 Birthday Mickey Hart, drummer, Grateful Dead 1943 Event RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 1943 Event Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead 1943 Death Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance 1943 Death Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 1942 Birthday Curtis Mayfield, born in Chicago, rock vocalist, Freddie's Dead, Superfly 1941 Event Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed 1941 Event Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead 1941 Event Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead) 1941 Event Jewish veterans honor their dead 1940 Event Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany 1940 Birthday Robby Mueller, cinematographer, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak 1940 Birthday Phil Lesh, Chapman, born in California, rock bassist, Grass Roots, Grateful Dead 1939 Event New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead 1938 Birthday Derek Jacobi, London, actor, Lanner-Strauss Family, Dead Again 1938 Birthday James Farentino, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dead and Buried, Final Countdown 1936 Event Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track 1935 Event Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in New York City 1934 Death Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio 1934 Death John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33 1934 Birthday Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show 1934 Event Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive 1933 Event Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead 1932 Death Lindbergh baby, found dead 1932 Event British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) 1932 Event Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri 1931 Birthday Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor, Dead 1930 Birthday Sally Ann Howes, born in London, England, actress, Dead of Night 1930 Birthday Steve McQueen, born in Slater, Missouri, actor, Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt 1928 Birthday Leo P[atrick] Kelley, U.S., sci-fi author, Dead Moon, Vacation in Space 1927 Birthday Thomas J J Altizer, Massachusetts, U.S. Radical theologian, God is Dead 1925 Event Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1924 Event Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead 1918 Birthday Dennis Patrick, born in Philadelphia, actor, Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals 1917 Event Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000 1916 Event Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead) 1915 Birthday Ellen Drew, Terry Ray, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Isle of Dead 1914 Birthday R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, U.S., sci-fi author, Devil is Dead 1914 Birthday David Ignatow, U.S. poet, Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead 1913 Event Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic) 1912 Event Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica 1907 Event SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead) 1906 Death Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit 1903 Event AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later 1902 Birthday Jan RT Campert, writer, Song the 18 dead 1902 Birthday Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet, Dead Reckoning 1902 Birthday Flora Robson, born in South Shields, England, actress, Dominique is Dead 1899 Birthday Guy Wilkerson, Texas, actor, Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron 1897 Birthday Morris Carnovsky, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dead Reckoning 1893 Birthday Norman Bel Geddes, born in Adrian, Michigan, theatrical designer, Rivals, Dead End 1891 Birthday Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe' 1882 Death Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford 1877 Event University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1877 Birthday Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, Theodora, Dutch author/actress, Dead Water 1876 Death Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's 1875 Birthday John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water 1872 Event Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia, Kentucky (1 dead/$1,500) 1867 Event Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead 1865 Death John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 1864 Event Battle of Honey Hill South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded 1863 Death Martin E Green, Confederate Brigadier-General, shot dead at 38 1861 Death James T Jackson, U.S. landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead) 1852 Death Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies 1839 Death Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies 1810 Death Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French and Bavarians, shot dead 1809 Birthday Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls 1718 Death Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
