| 2007 | Kitty Carlisle, dies in New York City, of congestive heart failure, at 96 |
| 2002 | Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79 |
| 2002 | Buck Baker, American Celebrity |
| 1999 | Anthony Newley, singer/composer, The Candyman, dies at 67 |
| 1999 | Ellen Corby, actress, The Waltons, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Benjamin "Zik" Azikiwe Nnamdi, politician, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Gaylord Birch, drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50 |
| 1996 | Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Brian Coffey, poet, publisher, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Donald Keech, entrepreneur, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Harry Touw, Dutch comic (Fred Hache Show), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered |
| 1993 | Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author, Heir, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Sam Ntombani, ANC-secretary in Soweto South Africa, shot to death |
| 1992 | David Miller, dies of cancer at 82 |
| 1992 | Sammy Price, U.S. boogie-woogie pianist, dies |
| 1990 | Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies |
| 1988 | Herbert Reynolds Inch, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Johan Franco, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Jean Genat, French, playwright (Lesson Negres), dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86 |
| 1985 | Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies |
| 1985 | Reginald Beane, pianist (Starlit Time, Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63 |
| 1983 | Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Olympic-bronze-1952), dies at 64 |
| 1983 | Pete Farndon, rock bassist (Pretenders), dies |
| 1983 | Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at 42 |
| 1980 | Tom Fadden, actor (Duffeild-Broken Arrow, Cimarron City), dies at 84 |
| 1976 | Gerard Romsee, Flemish nationalist, dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at 60 |
| 1975 | Fredric March, actor (Inherit the Wind), dies at 77 |
| 1975 | Michael Flanders, British Actor |
| 1973 | Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Minna Gombell, dies in Santa Monica CA |
| 1971 | Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies |
| 1965 | Leonard Mudie, dies of heart ailment at 82 |
| 1965 | Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged |
| 1965 | Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged |
| 1964 | Earle Hodgins, actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 64 |
| 1964 | Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 |
| 1960 | Archibald McIndoe, plastic surgeon, dies |
| 1953 | Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84 |
| 1950 | Ramana Maharshi, Indian Philosopher |
| 1949 | Joseph A Cushman, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 68 |
| 1948 | Gerhard Anschutz, German professor, dies at 81 |
| 1948 | Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home |
| 1943 | Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62 |
| 1943 | Geoffrey Turton Shaw, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1941 | Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies |
| 1934 | Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape), dies |
| 1934 | Karl Dane, dies at 57 |
| 1930 | W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36 |
| 1925 | Pieter D van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54 |
| 1924 | Louis H Sullivan, architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67 |
| 1924 | Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65 |
| 1924 | Louis Sullivan, American Architect |
| 1917 | Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57 |
| 1915 | James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies |
| 1914 | Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist, dies at 58 |
| 1913 | Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68 |
| 1895 | James Dwight Dana, American Scientist |
| 1888 | William Fisk Sherwin, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1874 | Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86 |
| 1843 | Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42 |
| 1813 | Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1768 | Francois de Cuvillies, Belgian architect of Bayern, dies |
| 1764 | Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer, dies at 84 |
| 1759 | Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74 |
| 1695 | Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), dies at 73 |
| 1692 | Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies |
| 1655 | Johann Erasmus Kindermann, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1574 | Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle |
| 1574 | Hendrik, count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle |
| 1574 | Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35 |
| 1552 | Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies |
| 1471 | Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42 |
| 1433 | Liduina van Schiedam, Dutch mystic (Christ's Bride)/saint, dies at 53 |
| 1427 | John IV, duke of Brabant, dies |
| 1240 | Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, dies |
| 1099 | Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death |
| 911 | Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies |
| 711 | Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27 |
