| 2008 | Albert Hofmann, dies in Switzerland, of natural causes, at 102 |
| 2005 | Mel Gussow, American Critic |
| 1997 | Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64 |
| 1997 | Peter Tali Coleman, Governor of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies |
| 1997 | Keith Ferguson, blues guy, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, dies at 50 |
| 1996 | David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Bill Quinn, U.S. actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53 |
| 1994 | Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74 |
| 1993 | Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Michael Gordon, actor and director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46 |
| 1992 | Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies |
| 1988 | Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies |
| 1988 | Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1986 | Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25 |
| 1980 | Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 |
| 1980 | Alfred Hitchcock, English Director |
| 1979 | Julia A Perry, U.S. composer and conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55 |
| 1976 | Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1975 | Charles McMahon, Jr., U.S. USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam |
| 1975 | Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet |
| 1975 | Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam |
| 1975 | William Craig Nystul, USMC Captain, 1 of last U.S. soldiers killed in Viet |
| 1973 | Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1972 | Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup |
| 1968 | Frankie Lymon, rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25 |
| 1967 | Anthony Mann, U.S. director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60 |
| 1966 | Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85 |
| 1964 | Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77 |
| 1957 | Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1956 | Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1954 | Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82 |
| 1953 | Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62 |
| 1951 | Jules Verstraete, Julien G de Graef, actor (Boefje), dies at 67 |
| 1951 | Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62 |
| 1951 | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher |
| 1947 | Irving Fisher, U.S. economist, dies at 80 |
| 1943 | Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist and composer (Golem suite), dies at 56 |
| 1943 | Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1943 | Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 |
| 1937 | William Gillette, American Actor |
| 1936 | Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76 |
| 1935 | Leroy Carr, rocker, dies= |
| 1928 | Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 |
| 1921 | Arthur Mold, British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies |
| 1918 | Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22 |
| 1905 | Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1871 | John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 |
| 1864 | Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80 |
| 1841 | A Bertrand, writer, dies |
| 1813 | Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1712 | Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1707 | George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist |
| 1699 | Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50 |
| 1676 | Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69 |
| 1535 | John Houghton, English, executed |
| 1499 | John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies |
| 852 | Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76 |
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