| 2004 | Carrie Snodgress, actress, Diary of a Mad Housewife, dies at 57 |
| 1997 | Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa and Eva, dies at 97 |
| 1997 | Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52 |
| 1996 | Alfredo Nobre Coast, Prime Minister of Portugal (1978), dies |
| 1996 | Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51 |
| 1996 | Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies |
| 1994 | Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38 |
| 1993 | Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed |
| 1993 | Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies |
| 1993 | Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1992 | Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash |
| 1991 | Martha Graham, U.S., choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 |
| 1991 | Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies |
| 1991 | Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 |
| 1989 | Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57 |
| 1988 | Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91 |
| 1988 | Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44 |
| 1984 | Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer |
| 1981 | D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 |
| 1979 | Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51 |
| 1976 | Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 |
| 1976 | Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 |
| 1976 | Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95 |
| 1974 | Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies |
| 1969 | Helena Rubinstein, U.S. cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89 |
| 1968 | Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 |
| 1966 | Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 |
| 1965 | Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76 |
| 1964 | Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1960 | Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist and writer (Ciske), dies at 62 |
| 1957 | Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies |
| 1955 | Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 |
| 1952 | Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76 |
| 1951 | Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1950 | Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 |
| 1947 | George II, king of Greece, dies at 56 |
| 1946 | Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62 |
| 1941 | Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81 |
| 1936 | Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1933 | Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21), dies at 64 |
| 1930 | Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92 |
| 1930 | Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies |
| 1925 | Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1922 | Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies |
| 1918 | Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1918 | Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet |
| 1917 | Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 |
| 1916 | Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed |
| 1916 | Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist and writer (Abbingawald), dies |
| 1915 | Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1914 | Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB |
| 1910 | Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94 |
| 1901 | Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 |
| 1878 | Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1870 | Patrick Gass, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98 |
| 1869 | Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Minister of Reformed Worship, dies at 69 |
| 1866 | Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98 |
| 1866 | Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies |
| 1832 | Robert the Hermit, U.S. ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies |
| 1830 | Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1814 | Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 |
| 1807 | Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1807 | Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57 |
| 1807 | Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1799 | Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1734 | Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1611 | Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72 |
| 1548 | Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 |
| 1205 | Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies |
| 1204 | Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII and Henry II, dies at 81 |
