| 2004 | Kamisese Mara, Fijian Statesman |
| 2002 | Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/adventurer, Kon-Tiki, dies at 87 |
| 2000 | Martin Mailman, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe dies in Denton, Texas |
| 1998 | Terry Sanford, poltician, senator from North Carolina, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46 |
| 1996 | Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55 |
| 1996 | Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies |
| 1994 | Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32 |
| 1993 | Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer |
| 1990 | Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Marcel Dassault, Bloch, French airplane builder, dies at 94 |
| 1984 | John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81 |
| 1976 | Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38 |
| 1974 | Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 |
| 1964 | Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1964 | Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death |
| 1960 | Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 |
| 1959 | Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85 |
| 1958 | Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies |
| 1955 | Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies |
| 1955 | Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 |
| 1949 | Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies |
| 1947 | Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51 |
| 1945 | Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 |
| 1945 | John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies |
| 1944 | Cecile Chamindale, composer, dies |
| 1943 | I Yamamoto, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies |
| 1940 | Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies |
| 1940 | Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies |
| 1939 | Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88 |
| 1938 | Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies |
| 1936 | Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 |
| 1936 | Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1935 | Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 |
| 1928 | Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1925 | Charles Ebbets, Dodgers President, dies |
| 1921 | Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70 |
| 1919 | Enny Vrede, Maria M Muller, Dutch actress, drowns at 35 |
| 1917 | Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73 |
| 1905 | Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80 |
| 1898 | Gustave Moureau, painter, dies |
| 1883 | Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1879 | Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies |
| 1874 | David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey |
| 1873 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 |
| 1871 | Omar Pasha, Michael Lats, Croatian governor, dies at 64 |
| 1867 | Robert Smirke, architect, dies |
| 1861 | Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1860 | Count Istvan Szechenyi, statesman, commits suicide |
| 1855 | Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies |
| 1854 | Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1853 | William King, U.S. Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration |
| 1845 | Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 |
| 1830 | Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1824 | Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1818 | Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59 |
| 1807 | Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies |
| 1800 | John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1800 | Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies |
| 1710 | Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1690 | Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian Field Marshal, dies |
| 1689 | George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies |
| 1684 | Gonzales Cocx, Coques, painter, dies |
| 1679 | Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies |
| 1612 | Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies |
| 1610 | Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 |
| 1587 | John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies |
| 1567 | Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 |
| 1556 | Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 |
| 1552 | John Leland, antiquary, dies |
| 1530 | Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43 |
| 1504 | Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52 |
| 680 | Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies |
