August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 152 days remaining until the end of the year.
Up to 1900
- 30 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus Caesar, enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing the city under the control of the Roman Republic. Mark Antony commits suicide on the same day.
- 69 - Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (present-day Netherlands), revolt under leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis.
- 527 – Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
- 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 1192 - King Richard I of England enters Jaffa and defeats the army of Saladin.
- 1291 – The Swiss Confederation is formed.
- 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
- 1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
- 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
- 1619 – The first African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
- 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain dies, without any surviving children. George of Hanover succeeds her.
- 1747 - In reaction to the Second Jacobite uprising, kilts and tartan are banned in Scotland.
- 1759 – Seven Years' War: In the Battle of Minden, Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia defeat a force from France and Saxony.
- 1774 – The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
- 1776 – Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1790 – The first US census is completed, establishing the population of the United States at the time as 4 million.
- 1798 – Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.
- 1800 – The Act of Union of 1800 is signed, by which the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland are to merge.
- 1820 – London's Regent's Canal opens.
- 1831 – London Bridge opens.
- 1832 – The Black Hawk War ends.
- 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
- 1838 – Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
- 1844 - Berlin Zoo opens for the first time.
- 1855 – First successful climb of the Dufourspitze in Switzerland.
- 1864 – The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
- 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- 1891 – Switzerland celebrates its national holiday on this date for the first time.
- 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1951 – 2000
- 1952 – Asgeir Asgeirsson becomes President of Iceland.
- 1956 - Belgium becomes the last European country to introduce the driving test.
- 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
- 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France
- 1960 – Communist PAI is banned in Senegal.
- 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
- 1961 – Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
- 1965 – Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
- 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
- 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1968 – Coronation of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.
- 1968 – Kristjan Eldjarn becomes President of Iceland.
- 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
- 1971 – George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
- 1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts discover rocks which could date back to the origin of the Moon.
- 1974 – Cyprus dispute: The UN Security Council authorises the UN Peacekeeping Force to create the Green Line splitting the island in two.
- 1976 – Racing driver Niki Lauda is left in a critical condition after a crash in the German Grand Prix. He survives the crash.
- 1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes President of Iceland.
- 1980 - A train crash in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, kills 18 people.
- 1981 – First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
- 1993 - The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 is at its worst.
- 1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
- 1996 – Olafur Ragnar Grimsson becomes President of Iceland.
- 1996 – Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
- 2000 – Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel.
From 2001
- 2001 – An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
- 2001 – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
- 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2 1⁄2-ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
- 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 2005 – German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
- 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. His half-brother, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, succeeds him.
- 2005 – Disneyland Resort Line of the Hong Kong MTR opens to public.
- 2007 – The I-35 Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during evening rush hour.
- 2008 - A solar eclipse is visible over most of Europe and Asia, with totality passing over the Arctic, Russia and China.
- 2008 - 11 mountaineers die in an accident on K2, in the deadliest incident on the world's second-highest mountain.
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, former President of the Philippines, dies at the age of 76.
- 2009 – A shooting attack at a Gay and Lesbian association in Tel-Aviv, Israel, kills 2 people.
- 2013 - An Italian court confirms the prison sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of tax fraud.
- 2013 - Edward Snowden is given temporary asylum in Russia, leaving the transit area of a Moscow airport, five-and-a-half weeks after landing there.
- 2013 - 2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio: Ariel Castro is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, and holding them captive in his house for around a decade. He commits suicide on September 3.
- 2016 - Guðni Th. Jóhannesson becomes President of Iceland.
- 2017 - Jacinda Ardern becomes leader of the New Zealand Labour Party; she becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand less than three months later.
- 2017 - Shahid Khaqan Abbasi becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 2017 - A bomb attack in Herat, Afghanistan, kills 20 people.
- 2018 - Violent clashes occur in Harare over a delay in the announcement of Zimbabwe's Presidential election result.
- 2019 - A Houthi missile attack on a military parade in Aden, Yemen, kills 32 people.
- 2019 - The residents of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, are told to leave their homes because a local dam is in danger of collapse.
Up to 1900
- 10 BC – Claudius, Roman Emperor (d. AD 54)
- 126 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
- 1313 – Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364)
- 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433)
- 1520 – Sigismund II Augustus of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
- 1545 - Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622)
- 1579 – Lupe Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644)
- 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, rabbi and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean Movement (d. 1676)
- 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673)
- 1659 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734)
- 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780)
- 1714 - Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782)
- 1744 – Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1770 – William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838)
- 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843)
- 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
- 1799 – Sophie de Ségur, French writer (d. 1874)
- 1807 - Robert McClelland, American politician (d. 1880)
- 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and writer (d. 1882)
- 1817 - Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, German aristocrat (d. 1893)
- 1817 – Richard Dadd, English painter (d. 1886)
- 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891)
- 1819 – Augustus Gregory, Australian explorer (d. 1905)
- 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organiser (d. 1930)
- 1838 - Prince Louis, Count of Trani, Italian aristocrat (d. 1886)
- 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American politician (d. 1926)
- 1847 - Anton Reichenow, German ornithologist (d. 1941)
- 1856 - George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883)
- 1858 – Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
- 1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of France (d. 1937)
- 1865 - Prince Eugen, Duke of Narke, Swedish royal (d. 1947)
- 1867 - William Speirs Bruce, Scottish polar explorer (d. 1921)
- 1871 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- 1873 - Gabriel Terra, President of Uruguay (d. 1942)
- 1879 – Augusto Samuel Boyd, 19th President of Panama (d. 1957)
- 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
- 1888 - Charles Winslow, South African tennis player (d. 1963)
- 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968)
- 1893 – Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920)
- 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
- 1899 - Jimmie Angel, American pilot (d. 1965)
1901 – 1950
- 1905 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1993)
- 1906 - W. K. C. Guthrie, Scottish philologist (d. 1981)
- 1907 – Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1910 – Gerda Taro, German photographer (d. 1937)
- 1911 - Pericle Felici, Italian cardinal (d. 1982)
- 1912 - David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
- 1918 - Artur Brauner, German film producer (d. 2019)
- 1920 - Sammy Lee, American diver (d. 2016)
- 1920 - Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (d. 1953)
- 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Pat McDonald, actress (d. 1990)
- 1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1924 - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
- 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000)
- 1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor
- 1929 - Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress (d. 2018)
- 1929 – Hafizullah Amin, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
- 1930 – Lionel Bart, English songwriter (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
- 1930 – Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1930 - Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, choreographer, artist and director (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (d. 2010)
- 1931 – Tom Wilson, cartoonist
- 1931 – Ramblin' Jack Elliott, American folk singer
- 1931 - Dino da Costa, Brazilian-Italian footballer
- 1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- 1932 – Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
- 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
- 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Antonio Negri, Italian political philosopher
- 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
- 1936 - W. D. Hamilton, British biologist (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2015)
- 1936 - Chadlia Caid Essebsi, First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019)
- 1937 – Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
- 1938 - Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (d. 2019)
- 1939 - Stephen Sykes, English bishop (d. 2014)
- 1939 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
- 1940 - Franklin Cleckley, American state judge (d. 2017)
- 1940 - Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer
- 1941 – Jordi Savall, Catalan musicologist
- 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
- 1942 – André Gagnon, French-Canadian pianist and composer
- 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist, lyricist and singer (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)
- 1942 - Michael Martchenko, Canadian illustrator
- 1945 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist
- 1946 – Dick Covey, American astronaut
- 1946 - Karen Pendleton, American actress (d. 2019)
- 1948 - Cliff Branch, American football player (d. 2019)
- 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
- 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet, actor
- 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball coach
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
- 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003)
- 1953 – Robert Cray, American blues singer
- 1955 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
- 1956 – Tom Leykis, American radio personality
- 1957 - Yoshio Kato, Japanese footballer
- 1957 - Taylor Negron, American actor, comedian, painter and playwright (d. 2015)
- 1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player
- 1959 - Satoshi Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
- 1959 – Joe Elliott, musician (Def Leppard)
- 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy)
- 1960 – Richard Roeper, American newspaper columnist and movie critic
- 1963 – Coolio, American rapper
- 1963 - Amber Rudd, English politician, former UK Home Secretary
- 1963 - Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
- 1963 - Mark Wright, English footballer
- 1964 - Fiona Hyslop, Scottish politician
- 1964 - Kaspar Capparoni, Italian actor
- 1965 – Sam Mendes, English stage and movie director
- 1967 - Clare Adamson, Scottish politician
- 1967 - José Padilha, Brazilian director, producer and screenwriter
- 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player
- 1969 - Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
- 1970 – David James, English footballer
- 1970 - Sibel Can, Turkish singer
- 1970 - Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
- 1971 - Charles Malik Whitfield, American actor
- 1973 - Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer
- 1973 - Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor
- 1973 – Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress
From 1976
- 1976 – Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
- 1976 - Ivan Duque, Colombian politician, President of Colombia
- 1976 – Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer
- 1978 - Chris Iwelumo, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player
- 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (d. 2019)
- 1979 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
- 1979 - Jason Momoa, American actor
- 1980 – Mancini, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 - Hans Lindberg, Danish handball player
- 1981 - Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
- 1981 – Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Taylor Fry, actress
- 1982 – Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress
- 1982 - Montserrat Lombard, English actress
- 1984 – Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1985 – Stuart Holden, Scottish-American footballer
- 1986 – Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
- 1986 - Mike Wallace, American football player
- 1987 - Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
- 1987 - Karen Carney, English footballer
- 1988 - Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
- 1988 - Max Carver, American actor
- 1988 - Nemanja Matic, Serbian footballer
- 1989 – Tiffany, South Korean singer
- 1990 - Jack O'Connell, English actor
- 1992 - Austin Rivers, American basketball player
- 1993 - Alejandro Abrines Redondo, Spanish basketball player
- 1993 - Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
- 1994 - Domenico Berardi, Italian footballer
- 1994 - Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer
- 1995 - Jason Cummings, Scottish footballer
- 1996 - Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer
- 1998 - Khamani Griffin, American actor
Up to 1900
- 30 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (b. 83 BC)
- 371 – St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop
- 527 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)
- 1137 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- 1227 – Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1252 – Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian Franciscan monk and explorer (b. 1185)
- 1402 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (b. 1341)
- 1457 – Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist
- 1464 – Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1386)
- 1541 – Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 – Albrecht Giese IV, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 – Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Belgian cartographer (b. 1527)
- 1714 – Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1665)
- 1787 – Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (b. 1696)
- 1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist and entomologist (b. 1735)
- 1798 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1853)
- 1812 - Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (b. 1763)
- 1851 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1865 - Byron Diman, Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1795)
- 1866 – John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
- 1869 – Alexandrine Tinné, Dutch adventurer, explorer and photographer (b. 1835)
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (b. 1852)
- 1907 - Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro, three-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1849)
- 1911 – Konrad Duden, German teacher and philologist (b. 1829)
- 1911 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (b. 1852)
- 1913 – Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (b. 1871)
- 1917 – Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1917 – Enric Prat de la Riba, Catalan politician (b. 1870)
- 1918 – John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
- 1920 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
- 1929 - Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1943 – Lydia Litvyak, Soviet flying ace (b. 1921)
- 1944 – Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- 1945 – Gyula Csortos, Hungarian movie actor (b. 1883)
1951 – 2000
- 1959 - Jean Behra, French racing driver (b. 1921)
- 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934)
- 1966 – Charles Whitman, American gunman (b. 1941)
- 1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1970 – Frances Farmer, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1970 – Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1883)
- 1973 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
- 1973 – Walter Ulbricht, leader of East Germany (b. 1893)
- 1977 – Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
- 1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (b. 1923)
- 1986 - Carlo Confalonieri, Italian cardinal (b. 1893)
- 1987 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (b. 1897)
- 1989 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
- 1990 – Graham Young, British serial killer (b. 1947)
- 1990 – Norbert Elias, German sociologist (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Frida Boccara, French singer (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1996 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician, surgeon and aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
- 1998 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (b. 1927)
- 1999 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Anglo-Indian writer (b. 1897)
From 2001
- 2001 – Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
- 2001 - Mario Perazzolo, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (b. 1962)
- 2004 – Philip Hauge Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (b. 1928)
- 2005 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2006 - Ferenc Szusza, Hungarian footballer (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
- 2013 - John Amis, British broadcaster and writer (b. 1922)
- 2013 - Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (b. 1931)
- 2014 - Mike Smith, English radio and television presenter (b. 1955)
- 2014 - Rod de'Ath, Welsh drummer (b. 1950)
- 2014 - Charles T. Payne, American soldier (b. 1925)
- 2014 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarussian footballer (b. 1973)
- 2014 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian writer (b. 1974)
- 2014 - Saeed Saleh, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
- 2014 - Michael Johns, Australian singer (b. 1978)
- 2015 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (b. 1968)
- 2015 - Chiara Pierobon, Italian cyclist (b. 1993)
- 2015 - Bob Frankford, Canadian politician (b. 1939)
- 2015 - Cilla Black, English singer, actress and television presenter (b. 1943)
- 2016 - Queen Anne of Romania (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Frank Blas, Guamian politician (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Dai Dower, Welsh boxer (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Ana-Maria Avram, Romanian composer (b. 1961)
- 2017 - Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian writer and administrator (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Jeffrey Brotman, American businessman (b. 1942)
- 2017 - Mariann Mayberry, American actress (b. 1965)
- 2018 - Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)
- 2018 - Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and actor (b. 1985)
- 2018 - Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (b. 1923)
- 2018 - Umbayee, Indian ghazal singer (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (b. 1928)
- 2019 - Gordon Brand Jnr, Scottish golfer (b. 1958)
- 2019 - Ian Gibbons, English keyboardist (b. 1952)
- 2019 - Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
- 2019 - Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Swiss politician, Chancellor of Switzerland (b. 1948)
- 2019 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
- 2019 - Harley Race, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
- 2019 - Anders P. Ravn, Danish computer scientist (b. 1947)