| 2004 | Norris McWhirter, Guinness World Records curator/commentator, dies at 78 |
| 2004 | John Maynard Smith, English Scientist |
| 2004 | Jim Cantalupo, American Businessman |
| 1998 | Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Bernard Edwards, bass player, dies at 44 |
| 1996 | Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Igor Hajek, translator/writer, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | J Peter Grace, Jr., CEO (W R Grace), dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43 |
| 1993 | David Koresh, Vernon Howell, cult leader (Davidians), suicide |
| 1993 | George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash |
| 1992 | Alice Mary Riley, entertainer, dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1992 | Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51 |
| 1992 | Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1992 | Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1990 | Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52 |
| 1989 | Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77 |
| 1987 | Maxwell D Taylor, U.S. commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78 |
| 1986 | Dag Ivar Wiren, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1983 | Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74 |
| 1981 | Ernst Levy, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 |
| 1980 | Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 51 |
| 1978 | Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher, dies at 70 |
| 1972 | Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Casper Howeler, music critic, dies at 71 |
| 1968 | Tommy Bridges, U.S. baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61 |
| 1967 | Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91 |
| 1967 | Konrad Adenauer, German Statesman |
| 1966 | Vaino A Tanner, Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, dies at 85 |
| 1965 | George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75 |
| 1963 | Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer |
| 1957 | Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk and Wagnalls), dies at 76 |
| 1957 | Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79 |
| 1956 | Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70 |
| 1956 | Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47 |
| 1956 | Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, dies at 52 |
| 1954 | Joe Laurie, Jr., comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61 |
| 1950 | Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1945 | J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed |
| 1944 | Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44 |
| 1943 | Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded |
| 1943 | Gustave Doret, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1943 | Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded |
| 1943 | Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded |
| 1941 | Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1938 | Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 |
| 1938 | Marie-Clementine "Suzanne" Valadon, French acrobat/model, dies at 72 |
| 1938 | Henry Newbolt, English Author |
| 1937 | William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 |
| 1932 | Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1926 | Squire Bancroft, Butterfield, actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84 |
| 1923 | Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1914 | Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies |
| 1906 | Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies |
| 1900 | Ivan K Aivazovski, Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at 82 |
| 1895 | George Scharf, critic, dies |
| 1895 | Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), dies at 70 |
| 1893 | John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies |
| 1889 | Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies |
| 1882 | Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist, Origin of Species', dies at 73 |
| 1881 | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies |
| 1881 | Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor, dies at 53 |
| 1876 | Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1874 | Owen Jones, architect, dies |
| 1870 | Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83 |
| 1870 | Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1870 | William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1867 | Robert Smirke, British architect, dies |
| 1862 | Louis Powell Harvey, U.S. governor of Wisconsin, drowns |
| 1862 | Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, dies |
| 1852 | Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 |
| 1824 | George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, poet, dies at 36 |
| 1824 | Lord Byron, British Poet |
| 1824 | George Gordon Byron, Scottish Poet |
| 1813 | Benjamin Rush, physician and abolotionist, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 67 |
| 1799 | Pieter Hellendaal, violinist, organist and composer (Glees), dies at 78 |
| 1791 | Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies |
| 1776 | Jacob Israel Emden, Jacob ben Tswi, German rabbi, dies at 78 |
| 1773 | Florian Johann Deller, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1772 | Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1770 | Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1768 | Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70 |
| 1739 | Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician, dies |
| 1706 | Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies |
| 1689 | Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies |
| 1658 | Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70 |
| 1645 | Anton van Diemen, Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at about 51 |
| 1645 | William Smith, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1608 | Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies |
| 1588 | Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), painter, dies |
| 1567 | Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 |
| 1560 | Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63 |
| 1560 | Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian |
| 1529 | John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55 |
| 1390 | Robert II, King of Scotland, dies |
| 1054 | Leo IX, Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg, Pope (1049-54), dies at 51 |
| 1044 | Gothelo, duke of Netherlands-Lotharingen, dies |
| 843 | Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies |
