| 1999 | Senor Wences, comedian, Ed Sullivan Show, dies at 103 |
| 1996 | Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Tran Van Tra, soldier, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54), dies |
| 1995 | Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide |
| 1995 | Tessie O'Shea, entertainer, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Cantinflas, Mario Moreno, Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67 |
| 1992 | Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer and guitarist, dies at 76 |
| 1991 | Don[ald] Siegel, U.S. director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician, dies |
| 1991 | Sean O'Faolain, J Whelan, Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91 |
| 1991 | Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44 |
| 1991 | Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, Prime Minister of Mongolia 1952 - 1974, dies |
| 1990 | Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76), dies |
| 1987 | Antony Tudor, dancer and choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist |
| 1984 | Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies |
| 1982 | Archibald MacLeish, U.S., lawyer/writer (Conquistador), dies at 89 |
| 1982 | Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris and Roses), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Archibald McLeish, American Poet |
| 1979 | Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60 |
| 1977 | Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched), dies at 67 |
| 1974 | Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies |
| 1973 | Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82 |
| 1971 | Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu), dies at 73 |
| 1968 | Marion Weeks, singer/actress, dies of stroke at 81 |
| 1965 | Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday |
| 1965 | Richard Wessell, actor (Carney-Riverboat), dies at 54 |
| 1964 | August Sander, German Photographer |
| 1962 | Arthur Harmat, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1962 | Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82 |
| 1961 | Edward J. Hart, Representative-D-New Jersey 1935 - 1955 |
| 1956 | Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater), dies |
| 1956 | Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets), dies at 78 |
| 1953 | Erich Weinert, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47), dies at 76 |
| 1941 | Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer, dies in Buchenwald at 49 |
| 1935 | Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter, dies at 92 |
| 1932 | Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies |
| 1912 | Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies |
| 1908 | Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85 |
| 1906 | Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 |
| 1902 | Frank Richard Stockton, American Writer |
| 1900 | Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies |
| 1899 | Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/comedian, dies at 64 |
| 1872 | Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 |
| 1869 | Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1869 | Piotr Studzinski, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1839 | Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies |
| 1836 | Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/Field Marshal, dies at 75 |
| 1821 | Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 |
| 1820 | Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies |
| 1812 | George Clinton, 4th U.S. Vice President, dies at 73 1st Vice President to, die in office |
| 1786 | John Goodricke, English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at 21 |
| 1769 | Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered |
| 1768 | Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 |
| 1759 | Georg Friedrich Handel, buried in Westminster Abbey |
| 1695 | Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1662 | Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies |
| 1643 | Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1632 | Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake |
| 1534 | Elizabeth Barton, St. Magd van Kent, British prophet, dies |
| 1317 | Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies |
| 1314 | Clement V, Bertrand Got, pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies |
| 1164 | Victor IV, Ottaviano Montecello, Italian antipope (1159-64), dies |
