| 2008 | John Archibald Wheeler, dies in New Jersey, at 96 |
| 1997 | Ann Craft, researcher and writer, dies at 53 |
| 1997 | George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina |
| 1996 | Denis Sargan, econometrician, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | George Mackey Brown, poet, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Edward Firth Henderson, arabist, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandel), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czechoslovakian actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64 |
| 1993 | Barry Karas, dies of leukemia at 49 |
| 1993 | Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies |
| 1993 | Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72 |
| 1992 | Brian Oulton, dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Captain of Surrey), dies at 74 |
| 1990 | Luis Trenker, dies at 97 |
| 1990 | Ronald Ibbs, dies |
| 1986 | Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies |
| 1984 | Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self |
| 1978 | Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love), dies at 74 |
| 1975 | Larry Parks, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 60 |
| 1975 | N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad, dies |
| 1974 | Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts), dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63), dies at 44 |
| 1966 | Georges Duhamel, French Novelist |
| 1959 | Eduard A van Beinum, Dutch musician/conductor, dies at 57 |
| 1959 | Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m), dies at 38 |
| 1952 | [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79 |
| 1949 | C V France, dies at 80 |
| 1946 | William Henry Bell, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1944 | Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65 |
| 1942 | Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58 |
| 1941 | Annie Jump Cannon, U.S. astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77 |
| 1936 | Demertzis, Greek premier, dies |
| 1928 | Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1910 | William Orchardson, British painter, dies |
| 1904 | Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies |
| 1903 | Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65 |
| 1886 | Karoly Thern, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1882 | Bruno Bauer, German Theologian |
| 1880 | Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist |
| 1873 | Carlo Coccia, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1868 | Theodorus, Kasa, emperor of Abyssinia, commits suicide |
| 1864 | Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1831 | Ferdinand Kauer, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1826 | Franz Danzi, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1825 | Josef Gelinek, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1822 | Gaetano Valeri, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1806 | Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82 |
| 1794 | Nicolas de Chamfort, known for aphorisms and witty epigrams, wrote successful comedy, 'La Jeune Indienne', commits suicide at 53 |
| 1756 | Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29 |
| 1742 | Giovanni Veneziano, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1728 | Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1722 | Charles Leslie, Irish controversialist, dies |
| 1695 | Jean de La Fontaine, poet, dies |
| 1638 | Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gie, French hugenot leader, dies at 58 |
| 1517 | Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged |
| 1475 | Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt di Vita), dies at 69 |
| 799 | Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch writer, dies |
