GET /today/deaths

dayinhistory.dev:day-in-history-api

Summary: Get today's notable deaths
Operation ID: getTodayDeaths
Auth: none

Returns notable people who died on today's date throughout history. Similar to births, each entry includes name, death year, description of their life/work, and Wikipedia links. Useful for memorial content or historical retrospectives.

Original spec description

Returns a paginated list of notable people who died on today's date.

Usage Tips

- Death years can be negative for ancient historical figures - Combines well with /today/events and /today/births for comprehensive daily content - Some entries may be missing descriptions

Parameters (1)

page (integer, query, optional, default: 1)

Page number for pagination (starting from 1)

Constraints: {'minimum': 1}

Examples (2)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get today's notable deaths (first page) curl https://api.dayinhistory.dev/v1/today/deaths
Get today's notable deaths (page 2) curl https://api.dayinhistory.dev/v1/today/deaths?page=2

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:45:23.682642 200 2380ms
2026-03-23 09:14:55.113328 200 844ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 10:45:23.682642 7b64deb6846e 940bd9ba5d5a