| 2000 | Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75 |
| 1998 | Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer, dies at 73 |
| 1997 | Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies |
| 1995 | Cleo Brown, pianist, performed on National Public Radio, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | John Curry, English figure skater, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics, dies of AIDS at 44 |
| 1993 | George Ives, dies at 111 |
| 1993 | Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84 |
| 1991 | Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Martin Ashe, dies |
| 1990 | Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84 |
| 1989 | Charles Vanel, dies at 96 |
| 1989 | Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies |
| 1988 | Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81 |
| 1988 | Kenneth Williams, dies at 61 |
| 1986 | Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75 |
| 1986 | Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42 |
| 1984 | Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61 |
| 1983 | Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 |
| 1983 | Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68 |
| 1983 | Corrie Ten Boom, Dutch Celebrity |
| 1982 | 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed |
| 1982 | Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Captain Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66 |
| 1982 | Louis M de Guiringaud, French Foreign Minister (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 |
| 1981 | French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74 |
| 1980 | Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62 |
| 1980 | Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76 |
| 1980 | Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75 |
| 1976 | Gerald Smith, antisemite / catholic, National Christian Crusade, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Charles Marshall, dies |
| 1975 | John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies |
| 1975 | Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65 |
| 1972 | Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 |
| 1972 | Frank H Knight, American Economist |
| 1969 | Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81 |
| 1968 | Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69 |
| 1966 | Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81 |
| 1965 | Syd Chaplin, dies at 80 |
| 1962 | Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80 |
| 1962 | Esther Minciotti, dies at 74 |
| 1958 | Estelle Taylor, dies at 64 |
| 1956 | Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88 |
| 1954 | Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1949 | Wallace Beery, U.S. actor (The Champ), dies at 64 |
| 1947 | Wolstenholme, rocker, dies |
| 1943 | Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1942 | Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61 |
| 1938 | Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46 |
| 1937 | Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1929 | Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1927 | Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 |
| 1925 | John Singer Sargent, U.S. portrait painter, dies at 69 |
| 1924 | Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1920 | Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74 |
| 1916 | Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75 |
| 1912 | William Thomas Stead, English Journalist |
| 1911 | Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies |
| 1898 | Robert Purvis, American Activist |
| 1891 | Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1888 | Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 |
| 1866 | William Jackson, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1865 | Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 |
| 1863 | Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1853 | Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1824 | Theodorus F van Capellen, Vice-Admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 |
| 1811 | Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1788 | Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1772 | Karel Jozef, ruler of Batthyanyi, dies at 73 |
| 1765 | Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 |
| 1764 | Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies |
| 1756 | Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1719 | Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1659 | Simon Dach, German poet, dies |
| 1610 | Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 |
| 1607 | Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 |
| 1605 | Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies |
| 1502 | Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies |
| 1415 | Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine leader/diplomat (Erotemata), dies |
| 1220 | Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies |
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