Confirmed; see bottom section, below. However, please refer to [*Provide a way to retrieve questions and answers that have been deleted*][1] -- which is "status-planned". This is a ***feature***, not a bug. And this kind of feature has been requested many times. So, shush please, don't ruin it for us. ;) ---------- ---------- Confirmation info: ------------------ You can see this behavior (for now) with this API search: [/2.2/questions?fromdate=1466553600&...][2] <s>Which still includes the deleted question that the OP references:</s> **Update**, sometime in the last few days, this question stopped appearing in the results: { "tags": [ "java", "c#", "quartz-scheduler" ], "owner": { "display_name": "Kumar" }, "question_id": 37987057, "title": "Need a api or widget like Outlook calendar to create Appoitments" ... According to: - [Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users][3] - [10K+ users can \[still\] search any user's deleted content][4] This behavior should not be allowed as the API doesn't know that I'm 10K (I'm not authenticated), and I certainly don't own the question. Also, as a 10K user, I see: > Note: only content you own is returned when searching for deleted content When using normal site search for deleted content. [1]: https://stackapps.com/questions/1917/provide-a-way-to-retrieve-questions-and-answers-that-have-been-deleted [2]: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions#fromdate=2016-06-22&todate=2016-06-24&order=desc&sort=activity&tagged=quartz-scheduler%3Bjava&filter=!)EhwvzgXKKsFs376LZp*)y7pMQF4ZMkg9yqlxI1lLkVzxI8uT&site=stackoverflow&run=true [3]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/145060/enable-searching-with-deleted1-for-10k-users [4]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271062/10k-users-can-still-search-any-users-deleted-content