2008: Heath Ledger
2009: Farrah Fawcett
2010: Don Van Vliet
2011: Elizabeth Taylor
2012: Robin Gibb
2013: Margaret Thatcher
2014: Lauren Bacall
Updating:
1850: Zachary Taylor
1851: Louis Daguerre
1852: Louis Braille
1853: Christian Doppler
1854: Nicolas Bravo
1856: William Palmer
1857: Parley P. Pratt
1858: Dred Scott
1859: Alexis de Tocqueville
1860: Charles Goodyear
1861: Prince Albert
1862: John Tyler
1863: Stonewall Jackson
1864: John Sedgwick
1865: Abraham Lincoln
1866: George Everest
1867: Emperor Maximilian
1868: Léon Foucault
1869: Franklin Pierce
1870: Charles Dickens
1871: Robert Houdin
1872: Samuel F.B. Morse
1873: Napoleon III
1874: Chang and Eng Bunker
1875: Charles Wheatstone
1876: Harriet Martineau
1877: Crazy Horse
1878: Pope Pius IX
1879: James Clerk Maxwell
1880: Gustave Flaubert
1881: James A. Garfield
1882: Jesse James
1883: Karl Marx
1884: Gregor Mendel
1885: Victor Hugo
1886: Emily Dickinson
1887: Jenny Lind
1888: Wilhelm I and Friedrich III
1889: Jefferson Davis
1890: Vincent Van Gogh
1891: P.T. Barnum
1892: Walt Whitman
1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1894: Robert Louis Stevenson
1895: Louis Pasteur
1896: H.H. Holmes
1897: Johannes Brahms
1898: Charles Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll
1899: Horatio Alger Jr
1900: Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Nietzsche
1901: William McKinley, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1902: Emile Zola, Cecil John Rhodes
1903: Judge Roy Bean, Calamity Jane
1904: Anton Chekhov, Raden Adjeng Kartini
1905: Jules Verne, Lew Wallace
1906: Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Paul Laurence Dunbar
1907: Ida McKinley, Dmitri Mendeleev
1908: Grover Cleveland, Carlos I
1909: Leopold II, Geronimo
1910: Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy
1911: Billy O’Brien, Gustav Mahler
1912: Robert Falcon Scott and party, Emperor Meiji
1913: Francisco Maduro, J.P Morgan
1914: Ambrose Bierce, Franz Ferdinand
1915: Dikran Chokurian, Albert Spalding
1916: Jack London, Rasputin
1917: Mata Hari, Liliʻuokalani
1918: John McCrae, Nicholas II and his immediate family
1919: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry John Heinz
1920: Horace Elgin Dodge and Gaston Chevrolet, Charles Stephens
1921: Edward Douglass White and Annie Edson Taylor, Pinckney Pinchback
1922: Lothar von Richthofen, Alexander Graham Bell
1923: Pancho Villa, Warren Harding
1924: Vladimir Lenin, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine
1925: William Jennings Bryan, Sun Yat-sen
1926: Harry Houdini, Claude Monet
1927: Isadora Duncan, Lizzie Borden
1928: Roald Amundsen, Arnold Rothstein
1929: Isidor Fink, J. J. Riordan
1930: William Howard Taft, Arthur Conan Doyle
1931: Thomas Alva Edison, Peter Kurten
1932: Peg Entwistle, Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
1933: Calvin Coolidge, Giuseppe Zangara
1934: Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow, Winsor McCay
1935: T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia, Arizona Donnie “Ma” Barker
1936: Robert E. Howard, Albert Fish
1937: Jean Harlow, J. Bruce Ismay
1938: Thomas Wolfe, Clarence Darrow
1939: Douglas Fairbanks, Amelia Earhart
1940: Leon Trotsky, Neville Chamberlain
1941: Virginia Woolf, Annie Jump Cannon
1942: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
1943: Nikola Tesla, Sophie Scholl
1944: Glenn Miller, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
1945: Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt
1946: H.G. Wells, Booth Tarkington
1947: Bugsy Siegel, Willa Cather
1948: Mahatma Gandhi, Babe Ruth
1949: Margaret Mitchell, Frank Morgan, Charles Ponzi
1950: George Orwell
1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Fanny Brice
1952: Curly Howard, King George VI
1953: Edwin Hubble, Hank Williams
1954: Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi
1955: James Dean, Emmett Till
1956: Bela Lugosi, A.A. Milne
1957: Diego Rivera, Humphrey Bogart, and Joseph McCarthy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
1958: Julia Lennon, Wolfgang Pauli
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Henderson, John Foster Dulles
1960: Albert Camus, Emily Post
1961: Patrice Lubumba, Ernest Hemingway
1962: William Faulkner, Vita Sackville-West
1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Patsy Cline, Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis
1964: General Douglas MacArthur, Glenn “Fireball” Roberts, Rudy Lewis
1965: Nat King Cole, Frederick Fleet
1966: Charles Whitman, Buster Keaton
1967: Edward White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee, Woody Guthrie
1968: Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr
1969: Sharon Tate, Dwight D. Eisenhower
1970: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix
1971: Jim Morrison, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov
1972: Harry S Truman, J. Edgar Hoover
1973: Pablo Picasso, Lyndon B. Johnson
1974: Agnes Moorehead, Bud Abbott
1975: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Jimmy Hoffa, Aristotle Onassis
1976: Mao Tse Tung, Sal Mineo
1977: Elvis Aaron Presley, Groucho Marx
1978: Hubert Humphrey, Terry Kath
1979: Robert Williams, John Wayne
1980: George Pal, John Lennon
1981: Joe Louis, Richard Boone
1982: Grace Kelly, Henry Fonda, John Belushi
1983: Muddy Waters, Meyer Lansky
1984: Ethel Merman, Michel Foucault
1985: Eugene Ormandy, Roger Maris
1986: L. Ron Hubbard, Cliff Burton
1987: Andy Warhol, Budd Dwyer
1988: Robert A. Heinlein, Raymond Carver
1989: the Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos
1990: Jim Henson, Jill Ireland
1991: Frank Capra, Dr. Suess
1992: Jose Ferrer, Hal Roach
1993: Audrey Hepburn, André the Giant
1994: Kurt Cobain, Nicole Brown Simpson
1995: Warren Burger, Jerry Garcia
1996: King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Tupac Shakur
1997: Jimmy Stewart, The Notorious B.I.G.
1998: Frank Sinatra, Sonny Bono
1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., DeForest Kelley
2000: Charles M. Schulz, Tito Puente
2001: Dale Earnhardt, Isaac Stern, everyone who died on 9/11
2002: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder, Ann Landers
2003: Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool, Ilan Ramon, and Fred Rogers, Ty Longley, Mike “The Doctor” Gonsalves, and 98 others in The Station nightclub fire
2004: Susan Sontag, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
2005: James Doohan, Rosa Parks
2006: Gerald Ford, Syd Barrett
2007: Anna Nicole Smith, Merv Griffin
2008: Bobby Fischer, Heath Ledger
2009: Ricardo Montalban, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett
2010: Ronnie James Dio, Don Van Vliet
2011: Osama bin Laden, Elizabeth Taylor
2012: Rodney King, Robin Gibb
2013: Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher
2014: Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall
2015: Wayne Rogers
2016: David Bowie
2015 Johnny Kemp “Just got paid” musician
2016: Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, Saudi Shia rights activist, executed.
Back to 1700: Charles II of Spain.
1701: William Kidd
1702: King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland
1703: The Man in the Iron Mask
1704: Guillaume de l’Hôpital, eponym of the famous rule.
1705: Johann Lohner, composer
1706: Byerley Turk, first of the Thoroughbred horce racing stallions.
1707: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell and over 1500 other sailors at the Scilly naval disaster.
1708: Seki Takakazu, Japanese mathematician.
1709: Giuseppe Torelli, composer
1710: Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer. The first to make a quantitative measurement of the speed of the light.