| 2007 | Boris Yeltsin, died in Moscow, Russia, at 76, of congestive heart failure |
| 2007 | David Halberstam, dies in California, in a traffic crash, at 73 |
| 2002 | Jay Chiat, American Businessman |
| 2000 | Renato Di Paolo, method actor, accidentally strangled himself while playing Judas onstage, dies at 22 |
| 1996 | Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96 |
| 1996 | P. L. Travers, Australian Writer |
| 1995 | Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | John C. Stennis, Senator-D-Mississippi, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Lonesome Sundown, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30 |
| 1994 | Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74 |
| 1993 | Bertus Aafjes, poet and writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59 |
| 1993 | Daniel Jones, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Welsh composer, friend of Dylan Thomas, wrote 12 numbered symphonies, chamber music, made Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 |
| 1992 | Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53 |
| 1992 | Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52 |
| 1991 | Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies |
| 1991 | Johnny Thunders, American Musician |
| 1990 | Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62 |
| 1990 | Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies |
| 1990 | Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78 |
| 1988 | Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies |
| 1988 | Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman |
| 1986 | Harold Arlen, Hyman Arluck, U.S. composer, murdered at 81 |
| 1986 | Otto Preminger, dir (Advise and Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79 |
| 1985 | Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Sam Ervin, Senator-D-North Carolina 1954 - 1974, dies at 88 |
| 1984 | August "Guus" Oster, actor and director (Carrie), dies at 68 |
| 1983 | Buster Crabbe, 400m U.S. swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78 |
| 1980 | Jane Froman, U.S. singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72 |
| 1976 | James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47 |
| 1976 | Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27 |
| 1975 | R D Brinkmann, writer, dies |
| 1975 | William Hartnell, actor (Dr. Who), dies at 67 |
| 1973 | Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85 |
| 1971 | William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51 |
| 1969 | Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1965 | Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67 |
| 1960 | Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies |
| 1960 | Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71 |
| 1957 | William Orlamond, actor (Flesh and Devil, Words and Music), dies at 89 |
| 1955 | Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76 |
| 1952 | Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies |
| 1952 | Minus van Looi, Benjamin van der Neart, Flemish writer, dies at 60 |
| 1951 | Charles G. Dawes, American Vice President |
| 1946 | Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1945 | Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42 |
| 1943 | Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 74 |
| 1942 | Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73 |
| 1929 | Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28 |
| 1926 | Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies |
| 1925 | Andre Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de Jesus), dies at 45 |
| 1918 | Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies |
| 1915 | Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 |
| 1915 | Rupert Brooke, English Poet |
| 1905 | Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1905 | Joseph Jefferson, American Artist |
| 1897 | Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25 |
| 1895 | Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies |
| 1885 | William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1880 | Guess Saleh, Sarief Bastaman, Javanese painter, dies |
| 1878 | Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies |
| 1865 | James Dearing, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 24 |
| 1853 | Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies |
| 1850 | William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80 |
| 1847 | Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1827 | Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65 |
| 1812 | Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1786 | Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68 |
| 1774 | Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies |
| 1762 | Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1742 | Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1740 | Thomas Tickell, poet, dies |
| 1732 | Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1728 | Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1695 | Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72 |
| 1691 | Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies |
| 1670 | Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1625 | Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57 |
| 1616 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 |
| 1616 | William Shakesphere, English author (Hamlet) |
| 1616 | Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist |
| 1616 | William Shakespeare, English Dramatist |
| 1416 | Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies |
| 1016 | Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies |
| 1014 | Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 |
| 1014 | Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of England (1013-14), dies |
| 997 | Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40 |
| 990 | Ekkehart II, Palatinus, monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies |
| 871 | Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies |
| 303 | George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded |
| 303 | George, knight of Cappadocie?/saint/patron of England, beheaded |
