| 2005 | Percy Heath, American Musician |
| 2000 | Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet |
| 1999 | Arthur Schawlow, physicist, co-inventer of the laser, dies at 77 |
| 1999 | Rory Calhoun, actor, dies at 76 |
| 1999 | Roderick Thorp, American Novelist |
| 1998 | Jerome Bixby, screenwriter/writer, Twilight Zone, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer |
| 1996 | Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies |
| 1995 | Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Jim Valvano, basketball coach (North Carolina State), dies of cancer at 47 |
| 1992 | Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St. Francois d'Assise), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Floyd B McKissick, U.S. founder (CORE), dies |
| 1991 | Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 |
| 1990 | Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies |
| 1989 | Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77 |
| 1987 | Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua |
| 1984 | Glen H Taylor, U.S. senator/Vice Presidential candidate (1948), dies at 80 |
| 1984 | Silvia A Warner, writer, dies |
| 1984 | Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies |
| 1982 | Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66 |
| 1981 | Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79 |
| 1980 | Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies |
| 1980 | Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies |
| 1979 | Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Mohammed Daud Khan, Afghani Statesman |
| 1977 | Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 |
| 1976 | Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1975 | Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48 |
| 1974 | Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70 |
| 1973 | Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 |
| 1969 | Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1966 | Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77 |
| 1965 | Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80 |
| 1960 | Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87 |
| 1955 | Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43 |
| 1945 | Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot |
| 1945 | Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed |
| 1945 | Hans Bloesch, writer, dies |
| 1945 | Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician |
| 1944 | Frank Knox, American Public Servant |
| 1936 | Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies |
| 1935 | Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87 |
| 1933 | Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31 |
| 1925 | Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies |
| 1923 | Knute Nelson, American Politician |
| 1896 | Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies |
| 1887 | Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1873 | A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88 |
| 1860 | Isaac da Costa, poet and writer (Reveil, Wachter!), dies at 62 |
| 1858 | Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist |
| 1853 | Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79 |
| 1843 | William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies |
| 1804 | Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1799 | Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1770 | Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 |
| 1109 | Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies |
| 1089 | Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies |
