| 2004 | Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91 |
| 2003 | Edwin Starr, American Musician |
| 2001 | William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89 |
| 1998 | Rob Pilatus, lip-syncher, Milli Vanilli, dies at 32 |
| 1997 | Tomoyuki Tanaka, film maker and producer, Godzilla, dies of a stroke at 86 |
| 1995 | Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79 |
| 1993 | Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86 |
| 1992 | Paula Kelly, singer and actress (Sweet Charity), dies at 72 |
| 1990 | Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestral leader (Away We Go), dies at 69 |
| 1979 | Carroll D. Rosenbloom, Los Angeles Rams president, dies at 72 |
| 1976 | Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74 |
| 1974 | Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84 |
| 1974 | Georges Pompidou, French president, dies in Paris at 62 |
| 1972 | Gil Hodges, manager (New York Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 |
| 1972 | Franz Halder, German Soldier |
| 1969 | Fortunio Bonanova, actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74 |
| 1966 | Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 |
| 1965 | Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1961 | August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 |
| 1961 | Wallingford Riegger, U.S. composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75 |
| 1959 | Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79 |
| 1956 | Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82 |
| 1956 | Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65 |
| 1956 | Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59 |
| 1953 | Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 |
| 1952 | Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55 |
| 1951 | Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall |
| 1947 | Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies |
| 1944 | Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1941 | Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies |
| 1938 | Alice Berend, writer, dies |
| 1937 | Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72 |
| 1932 | Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany |
| 1928 | Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies |
| 1910 | Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 |
| 1910 | Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79 |
| 1896 | Theodore Robinson, American Artist |
| 1892 | Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79 |
| 1891 | Albert Pike, American Lawyer |
| 1890 | Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70 |
| 1876 | Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78 |
| 1872 | Samuel F B Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 |
| 1865 | Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 |
| 1865 | Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 |
| 1852 | Theodor Althaus, writer, dies |
| 1831 | Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74 |
| 1803 | Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 |
| 1784 | Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1758 | Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1747 | Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63 |
| 1705 | Johann Lohner, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1657 | Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 |
| 1640 | Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 |
| 1502 | Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon, dies |
| 1416 | Ferdinand I, the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52 |
| 1118 | Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies |
