| 2007 | Robert Pickett, stage name, Bobby Boris Pickett, singer, co-wrote and performed hit 'Monster Mash', dies |
| 2002 | "Lisa ""Left Eye"" Lopes", singer, TLC, dies at 30 |
| 2002 | Lisa Lopes, American Musician |
| 1999 | Lord Killanin, Irish Journalist |
| 1996 | John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | John Lorne Campbell, folklorist, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Saul Bass, graphic designer, filmmaker, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Francis Henry Smith, librarian, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32 |
| 1993 | Rosita Moreno, actress (Walls of Gold), dies of heart attack at 85 |
| 1992 | Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39 |
| 1992 | Dany [Daniel S] Tuijnman, Dutch Minister of traffic and water, dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Panos Christi, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 54 |
| 1992 | Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema |
| 1991 | Frank Hamilton, actor (Subterraneans), dies at 66 |
| 1991 | Theo Laseroms, Tank, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord), dies |
| 1990 | Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67 |
| 1989 | George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85 |
| 1988 | Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1988 | Carolyn Franklin, singer/songwriter/son of Aretha, dies at 43 |
| 1988 | Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Clifford D. Simak, American Writer |
| 1985 | Murray Matheson, actor (Felix-Banacek), dies at 72 |
| 1985 | Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 80 |
| 1984 | Richard Benedict, actor (Okinawa), dies at 64 of a heart attack |
| 1982 | Celia Johnson, actress (Brief Encounter, Happy Breed), dies at 73 |
| 1982 | Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies at 81 |
| 1982 | John Cody, U.S. cardinal and archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74 |
| 1982 | Paul de Vree, Flemish writer/essayist (Round Table), dies |
| 1982 | William R Burnett, U.S., writer (Asphalt Jungle), dies at 82 |
| 1981 | Dixie, a mouse who lived 6 years, dies |
| 1976 | Carol Reed, director (Agony and Ecstasy), dies |
| 1976 | Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79 |
| 1972 | George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1970 | Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55 |
| 1969 | Margarita Xirgu, actress (Bloody Wedding), dies at 80 |
| 1966 | Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70 |
| 1961 | Hans F Blunck, writer, dies |
| 1960 | Amanullah, emir/king of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67 |
| 1960 | Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62 |
| 1960 | Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1960 | Amanullah Khan, Afghani Statesman |
| 1955 | Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77 |
| 1955 | Paulus B Barth, Swiss painter/lithographer, dies at 73 |
| 1954 | Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies |
| 1951 | Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1943 | Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies |
| 1942 | Paul Kornfeld, writer, dies at 52 |
| 1937 | Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open |
| 1928 | Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49 |
| 1926 | Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 |
| 1925 | George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1915 | Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1906 | John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer, dies at 67 |
| 1905 | Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70 |
| 1882 | Johann CF Zollner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies |
| 1879 | Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet |
| 1878 | Anna Sewell, English Writer |
| 1873 | Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 |
| 1862 | Charles Ferguson Smith, U.S. Union General-Major, dies of infection at 55 |
| 1853 | William Beaumont, physiologist, dies |
| 1845 | Thomas Duncan, painter, dies |
| 1840 | Simeon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling), dies |
| 1840 | Simeon Poisson, French Mathematician |
| 1828 | John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64 |
| 1822 | Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 |
| 1813 | Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French poet (Le Deserteur), dies at 73 |
| 1812 | Edmund Malone, Irish Editor |
| 1808 | Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1800 | William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68 |
| 1792 | Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1792 | Nicolas J Pelletier, Frenchman, 1st guillotined |
| 1744 | Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42 |
| 1728 | John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies |
| 1690 | David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (Pictorium), dies at 79 |
| 1663 | Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1647 | Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62 |
| 1607 | Don Juan Alvarez, Spanish Admiral (Gibraltar), dies in battle |
| 1607 | Jacob van Heemskerck, Dutch Admiral (Nova Zambia), dies in battle |
| 1595 | Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 |
| 1566 | Diane de Poitiers, lover of French King Henry II, dies |
| 1482 | Margaret of Anjou, Queen (Henry VI), dies |
| 1472 | Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68 |
| 1342 | Benedict XII, Jacques Fournier, Pope (1334-42), dies |
| 1295 | Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies |
| 974 | Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84 |
