| 2007 | Jack Valenti, dies at 85, from stroke complications |
| 2003 | David Lavender, American Historian |
| 1999 | Bert Remsen, actor, The Player, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Jane Crowley, censor, NBC censor for The Tonight Show, dies at 73 |
| 1999 | Jill Dando, British Journalist |
| 1998 | Gabe Paul, American Businessman |
| 1997 | Joey Faye, comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes) |
| 1997 | Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies |
| 1997 | Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies |
| 1996 | Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94 |
| 1996 | Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Alexander Knox, actor and writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68 |
| 1991 | Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies |
| 1991 | Emily McLaughlin, U.S. actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61 |
| 1990 | Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian President candidate, assassinated |
| 1989 | Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78 |
| 1988 | Valerie Solanas, American Writer |
| 1986 | Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87 |
| 1986 | [William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70 |
| 1984 | May McAvoy, actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack |
| 1984 | William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday |
| 1984 | Count Basie, American Musician |
| 1983 | Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72 |
| 1982 | Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73 |
| 1982 | Ville Ritola, Finnish 5/10km runner, Gold Medals 1924, 1928 Olympics, dies |
| 1981 | Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65 |
| 1981 | Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71 |
| 1981 | Robert Davi (opera singer/actor), dies at 54 |
| 1980 | Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87 |
| 1976 | Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60 |
| 1976 | Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45 |
| 1976 | Sidney James, actor (Lavander Hill Mob, Carry On), dies at 65 |
| 1973 | Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 |
| 1972 | Margaret A R Bonds, U.S. pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59 |
| 1970 | Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56 |
| 1970 | John Knittel, writer, dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 |
| 1964 | Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93 |
| 1960 | Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 |
| 1958 | Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68 |
| 1956 | Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66 |
| 1952 | Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59 |
| 1951 | John Alden Carpenter, U.S. composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75 |
| 1946 | Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65 |
| 1941 | Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74 |
| 1940 | Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 |
| 1938 | Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79 |
| 1932 | Hart Crane, American Poet |
| 1931 | George H. Mead, American Philosopher |
| 1931 | George Herbert Mead, American Philosopher |
| 1924 | Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1922 | Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1920 | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian math genius (Notebooks), dies at 32 |
| 1915 | John Bunny, American Actor |
| 1910 | Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 |
| 1907 | Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1865 | Charles J Sax, Belgian inventor (saxophone), dies at 74 |
| 1865 | John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 |
| 1827 | Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1805 | Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 |
| 1789 | Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 |
| 1785 | Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1731 | Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 |
| 1726 | Jeremy Collier, English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 |
| 1703 | Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1648 | Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1558 | Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies |
| 1478 | Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24 |
| 1444 | Robert Campin, South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 |
| 1196 | Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies |
| 757 | Stephen II, [III/Orsini], Pope (752-57), dies |
