| 1996 | David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46 |
| 1996 | David Opatoshu, actor (Torn Curtian, Raid on Entebbe), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Helene Cordet, entertainer/nightclub owner, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, President of Guatemala (1966-70), dies |
| 1995 | Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Reinaldo de Carvalho, carnival king, dies at 34 |
| 1994 | David Langton, dies of a heart at 81 |
| 1994 | Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53 |
| 1994 | Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46 |
| 1994 | Richard McClure Scarry, U.S. kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31 |
| 1993 | David Waymer, NFLer (Saints, 49'ers, Raiders), dies at 34 |
| 1992 | Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies |
| 1991 | George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 |
| 1991 | Michael G Hagerty, actor (Overboard), dies at 39 |
| 1989 | Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60 |
| 1988 | James McCracken, U.S. tenor, dies at 61 |
| 1987 | Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies |
| 1985 | George Pravada, actor (Felscher-Holocaust), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies |
| 1984 | Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68 |
| 1983 | George Balanchine, Russian/US composer, dies at 79 |
| 1983 | Jerry Hatsuo Fujikawa, actor (Uncle Matsu-Mr T and Tina), dies at 71 |
| 1983 | Muddy Waters, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at 68 |
| 1982 | Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies |
| 1982 | Herman Tholen, Dutch cabaret performer (Juveniles), dies |
| 1982 | Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Mary McCarty, actress (French Line), dies |
| 1977 | Clive Martin Douglas, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1974 | Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endorra-Bewitched), dies at 67 |
| 1973 | Josie Sedgwick, actress (White Moth), dies of stroke at 75 |
| 1972 | Gia Scala, actress (Garment Jungle, I Aim at the Stars), dies at 38 |
| 1972 | Ntare V, king of Burundi, murdered |
| 1971 | Elmo Roper, pollster (Roper Poll), dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Hall Johnson, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1970 | Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35 |
| 1970 | Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71 |
| 1968 | Frankie Lymon, rocker, dies of a heroin overdose |
| 1966 | Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident |
| 1965 | Helen Chandler, actress (Dracula, Salute, Last Flight), dies at 56 |
| 1963 | Bryant Washburn, actor (Nabonga, Millionaire Kid), dies at 74 |
| 1959 | Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1957 | Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80 |
| 1956 | Alben W. Barkley, (Vice President-D-1949-53), dies at 78 |
| 1956 | Alben W. Barkley, American Vice President |
| 1952 | Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer, dies |
| 1945 | Adolph Hitler, German dictator (1936-45), commits suicide at 56 |
| 1945 | Eva Braun, mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide at 33 |
| 1945 | Adolf Hitler, Criminal |
| 1943 | Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship), dies at 85 |
| 1943 | Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist, dies in Auschwitz |
| 1943 | Beatrice Webb, British Sociologist |
| 1942 | Catherine Murphy Urner, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1942 | J van Hoddis, writer, dies at 54 |
| 1936 | A. E. Housman, English Poet |
| 1934 | William Henry Welch, dies at 75 |
| 1933 | Luis Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza |
| 1933 | Anna de Noailles, Romanian Writer |
| 1929 | Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (Turmer), dies at 63 |
| 1926 | Bessie Coleman, American Aviator |
| 1922 | David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies |
| 1919 | Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies |
| 1912 | Frantisek Kmoch, composer, dies |
| 1903 | Francois Crepin, Belgian botany, dies at 72 |
| 1900 | John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck |
| 1896 | Antonio Cagnoni, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1895 | Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1893 | Edouard Manet, French painter (Olympia), dies at 61 |
| 1893 | Gyula Beliczay, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1887 | Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1879 | Sarah Josepha Hale, American Writer |
| 1859 | Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Bagrova-vnuka), dies at 67 |
| 1855 | Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer and conductor, dies at 68 |
| 1848 | Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 |
| 1847 | Charles L J, archduke of Austria/Governor-General (Austria-Netherland), dies |
| 1829 | George Washington Adams, son of John Q Adams, dies on City Is New York City |
| 1828 | Shaka, the great Zulu King, killed |
| 1800 | John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46 |
| 1795 | Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies |
| 1793 | Lorenzo Fago, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1792 | Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1792 | John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73 |
| 1785 | Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch and Putnam), dies at 65 |
| 1784 | Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies |
| 1743 | Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian playwright and poet, dies |
| 1712 | Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar, dies at 78 |
| 1708 | Simon de Vries, book seller/writer (Unequal), dies |
| 1671 | Peter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49 |
| 1660 | Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84 |
| 1632 | Jean de Tilly, Field Marshal, dies |
| 1632 | Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden, dies at 65 |
| 1630 | Ercole Porta, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1328 | ... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies |
| 1214 | Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies |
| 1196 | Boudouin II, bishop of Utrecht (1178-96), dies |
| 1030 | Mohammud van Ghazna, Turkish mayor (G'widen)/Islamic ruler, dies |
| 535 | Amalaswintha, queen of Ostrogoten, murdered |
| 313 | Gaius G V Maximus, [Daia], Emperor of Rome, dies |
