| 2000 | Larry Linville, actor, M*A*S*H TV show, dies at 60 |
| 1999 | Jean Vander Pyl, cartoon voice, The Flintstones, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7 |
| 1995 | Chen Yun, VPM of China 1949 - 1975, 1979 - 1980, dies |
| 1995 | Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies |
| 1995 | Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer and actor (Colorado Ranger), dies at 44 |
| 1995 | Morarji Desai, Prime Minister of India (1977-79), dies |
| 1994 | James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 |
| 1992 | Ken Ward, dies at 37 |
| 1992 | Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38 |
| 1992 | Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist |
| 1991 | Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry and Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35 |
| 1991 | Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer |
| 1989 | Joan Barry, dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Joseph P Addabbo, U.S. defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61 |
| 1984 | Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday |
| 1984 | Ray Middleton, dies at 75 |
| 1983 | Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered |
| 1983 | Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78 |
| 1980 | Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65 |
| 1979 | Henriette P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91 |
| 1979 | Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67 |
| 1975 | Marjorie Main, actress (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies at 85 |
| 1975 | Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86 |
| 1975 | Walker Evans, U.S. photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71 |
| 1974 | Patricia Collinge, dies at 81 |
| 1974 | Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Charles Paton, dies at 96 |
| 1966 | Christian J Modeste, Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62 |
| 1965 | Linda Darnell, dies from burns received in a fire at 41 |
| 1962 | Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21 |
| 1962 | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director |
| 1961 | Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65 |
| 1960 | Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30 |
| 1958 | W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY |
| 1956 | Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1956 | Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75 |
| 1956 | Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1955 | Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1955 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher |
| 1955 | Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher |
| 1954 | Auguste Lumiere, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81 |
| 1954 | Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79 |
| 1945 | Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63 |
| 1939 | Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75 |
| 1938 | Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana |
| 1937 | Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1933 | Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies |
| 1932 | Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56 |
| 1931 | Kahlil Gibran, Poet |
| 1929 | Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36 |
| 1920 | Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90 |
| 1920 | Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53 |
| 1919 | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39 |
| 1911 | Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1909 | Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 |
| 1900 | Frank Hamilton Cushing, American Writer |
| 1894 | Charles Bowen, English Judge |
| 1885 | John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73 |
| 1863 | Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 |
| 1862 | William Harvey Lamb Wallace, U.S. lawyer/Brigadier-General, dies at 40 |
| 1848 | Godert AGP baron van Capellen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69 |
| 1825 | Paul-Louis Courier, (Mere), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53 |
| 1817 | Francis Cabot Lowell, American Businessman |
| 1810 | Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1807 | Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbuttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies |
| 1784 | Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71 |
| 1760 | Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75 |
| 1756 | Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 |
| 1731 | Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1723 | Claude F Tserclaes, South Netherlands earl of Tilly, dies at 74 |
| 1712 | Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77 |
| 1640 | Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61 |
| 1640 | Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60 |
| 1585 | Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncampagni, Italian Pope (1572-85), dies |
| 1533 | Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61 |
| 1362 | Machteld, countess of Holland, dies |
| 1008 | Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies |
| 947 | Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies |
| 879 | Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies |
