| 2007 | Kurt Vonnegut, dies at his home in Manhattan, at 84 |
| 2001 | Nyree Dawn Porter, actor, The Forsyte Saga, dies at 61 |
| 2001 | Sir Harry Secombe, actor, The Goon Show, dies at 79 |
| 2001 | Harry Secombe, Welsh Actor |
| 1998 | Rodney Harvey, actor, My Own Private Idaho, dies at 30 |
| 1997 | Michael Dorris, writer, Broken Cord, commits suicide at 52 |
| 1996 | Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Jessica Dubroff, hoped to be youngest to fly across U.S., crashed at 7 |
| 1996 | Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, advertising magnate, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered |
| 1993 | Rachmon Nabiyev, President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Adele Dixon, singer and actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
| 1992 | Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1992 | James Brown, actor (Rip-Adv of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72 |
| 1991 | Tom Rosqui, dies at 62 |
| 1990 | Barbara Ann Miller, dies |
| 1989 | Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68 |
| 1988 | David Prater, U.S. singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 |
| 1988 | Jeff Donnell, actor (Hoedown, 9 Girls), dies at 66 of a heart attack |
| 1987 | Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 |
| 1985 | Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76 |
| 1983 | Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78 |
| 1981 | Marie Ney, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Charlotte Henry, dies |
| 1980 | Florence Lake, dies |
| 1977 | Jacques Prevert, French poet (La puil et le beau), dies at 77 |
| 1976 | Liam Dunn, dies a 59 |
| 1975 | Dorothy Patten, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Curt Conway, dies |
| 1974 | Abraham Robinson, German Mathematician |
| 1973 | Ted de Corsia, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Cathy O'Donnell, dies at 66 |
| 1970 | John H O'Hara, U.S. journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65 |
| 1969 | Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Francis de Bourguignon, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1952 | Wadi' Sabra, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant |
| 1945 | Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29 |
| 1939 | SS Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], detective writer, dies at 50 |
| 1936 | Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1935 | Anna Katharine Green, American Author |
| 1934 | John Collier, British Artist |
| 1921 | Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies |
| 1916 | Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52 |
| 1906 | Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies |
| 1906 | James A Bailey, circus showman (Barnum and Bailey), dies at 58 |
| 1903 | Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 |
| 1902 | ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle |
| 1901 | Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1887 | Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1884 | Henry James Byron, English Dramatist |
| 1881 | Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 |
| 1875 | Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies |
| 1854 | Karl Adolph von Basedow, East Germany (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 |
| 1853 | Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies |
| 1842 | John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies |
| 1839 | John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59 |
| 1838 | Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40 |
| 1812 | Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35 |
| 1810 | Jakob Zupan, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1783 | Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 |
| 1729 | Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1648 | Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1512 | Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle |
| 1500 | Michael T Marullus, Greeks poet, drowns |
| 1240 | Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies |
| 1034 | Romanus III Argyrus, Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife |
| 678 | Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies |
