| 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, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994 |
| 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, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide |
| 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 Quincy Adams, dies |
| 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 |
