| 2004 | Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85 |
| 2003 | Nina Simone, singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 |
| 2001 | "Jack Haley, Jr", documentary producer, That's Entertainment!, dies at 67 |
| 2001 | Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician |
| 2000 | Al Purdy, Canadian Poet |
| 1999 | Buddy Rogers, actor, Wings, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies |
| 1997 | Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies |
| 1996 | Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies |
| 1996 | Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 |
| 1994 | Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39 |
| 1992 | Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal |
| 1991 | Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Richard Bolling, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader, dies at 74 |
| 1990 | Erte, art deco stylist, dies at 97 |
| 1990 | Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies |
| 1989 | James Kirkwood, actor and writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 |
| 1987 | Edith S. Green, Representative-D-Oregon, dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Rudi Gernreich, U.S. designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 |
| 1985 | Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 |
| 1985 | Irving Mills, American Musician |
| 1982 | Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 |
| 1978 | Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 |
| 1977 | Gummo [Milton] Marx, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 |
| 1975 | Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1973 | Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 |
| 1971 | Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 |
| 1971 | Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64 |
| 1971 | Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman |
| 1968 | Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1968 | Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt |
| 1967 | Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 |
| 1965 | Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 |
| 1965 | Edward Appleton, English Scientist |
| 1962 | Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies |
| 1961 | James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 |
| 1956 | Charles MacArthur, American Playwright |
| 1952 | Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 |
| 1952 | [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 |
| 1948 | Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1946 | John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 |
| 1946 | John Maynard Keynes, English Economist |
| 1945 | John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 |
| 1939 | Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1938 | Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 |
| 1938 | Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet |
| 1930 | Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 |
| 1930 | Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 |
| 1930 | Robert Bridges, English Poet |
| 1924 | Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 |
| 1924 | Marie Corelli, English Writer |
| 1924 | Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress |
| 1918 | "Red Baron", Manfred von Richtofen, shot down in WW I at 25 |
| 1918 | Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator |
| 1910 | Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 |
| 1900 | Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1899 | Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 |
| 1898 | Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1878 | Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1871 | Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies |
| 1780 | Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1736 | Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72 |
| 1731 | Daniel Defoe, English Journalist |
| 1730 | Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 |
| 1699 | Jean Racine, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate', dies at 59 |
| 1696 | Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1652 | Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1574 | Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 |
| 1552 | Peter Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German astronomer, dies at 50 |
| 1509 | Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 |
| 1142 | Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62 |
| 1109 | Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies |
| 1073 | Alexander II, Anselmo da Baggio, Pope (1061-73), dies |
