| 2004 | Austin Willis, actor, Cross-Canada Hit Parade, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Carl Burton Stokes, politician, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | David Keylsey, actor and director, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | David Whitton, campaigner, dies at 44 |
| 1996 | Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist, dies at 97 |
| 1996 | Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Seamas NacNeill, piper, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Kenny Everett, disc Jockey, dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Priscilla Lane, actress (Saboteur, Bodyguard), dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress and singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Alfred Mosher Butts, U.S. architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Bep [Alberta B] Ogterop, Rita la Roche, singer, dies |
| 1992 | Karl Tunberg, U.S. scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies |
| 1992 | Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Sy Kramer, singer/comedy writer dies of cancer at 59 |
| 1991 | John Heinz III, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1991, dies in a plane crash at age 52 |
| 1991 | Luc de Rijck, Belgian soccer player (Turnhout), dies |
| 1991 | Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Businessman |
| 1987 | C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Frank Mortelmans, Belgian painter, dies at 87 |
| 1983 | Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84 |
| 1983 | Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at 78 |
| 1982 | Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1981 | Brad Johnson, actor (Annie Oakley), dies at 56 |
| 1979 | Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77 |
| 1979 | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan at 51 |
| 1978 | Gino Contilli, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1977 | Jeno Zador, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1972 | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Representative-D-New York, dies at 63 from acute prostatitis |
| 1972 | John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies |
| 1972 | Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Zeus and Elidco), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Byron Foulger, actor (Captain Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr., (Dream continues), assassinated in Memph at 39 |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader |
| 1967 | Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76 |
| 1963 | Endzion Barelli, dies 2 days after winning a boxing match at 18 |
| 1963 | Jason Robards Sr, actor (Acapulco), dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Hendrik Heyman, Belgian minister of Nijverheid/mayor, dies at 78 |
| 1956 | Fritz Kunkel, German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66 |
| 1953 | Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59 |
| 1953 | Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, dies at 93 |
| 1944 | John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 |
| 1944 | Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1943 | Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor, dies at 54 |
| 1943 | Raoul Laparra, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1941 | Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29 |
| 1939 | Ghazi I, King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident |
| 1938 | Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24 |
| 1937 | Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic, dies at 69 |
| 1934 | Braulio Dueno Colon, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1932 | Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59 |
| 1932 | Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies |
| 1931 | Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies |
| 1931 | George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1930 | Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies |
| 1929 | Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84 |
| 1923 | L Martov, Joulij O Tsederbaum, Russ revolutionary, dies at 49 |
| 1923 | John Venn, British Philosopher |
| 1919 | William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 |
| 1913 | Edward Dowden, Irish Critic |
| 1908 | Josef Sucher, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1905 | Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter/sculptor, dies at 73 |
| 1900 | Edward VII, King, assassinated |
| 1893 | Alphonse LPP de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 86 |
| 1889 | Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56 |
| 1862 | Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor (Iduna), dies at 45 |
| 1844 | Charles Bulfinch, 1st U.S. pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80 |
| 1841 | William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st President to die in office, at 68 |
| 1817 | Andre Massena Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies |
| 1817 | Prince d'Essing, dies |
| 1807 | Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies |
| 1806 | Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1784 | Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies |
| 1774 | Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 |
| 1734 | Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 |
| 1714 | Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies |
| 1664 | Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies |
| 1662 | Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1662 | Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73 |
| 1643 | Simon Episcopius, Bisschop, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 |
| 1617 | John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies |
| 1604 | Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies |
| 1588 | Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53 |
| 1585 | Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57 |
| 1417 | John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies |
| 1406 | Robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies |
| 1393 | Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1292 | Nicholas IV, Girolamo Masci, Pope (1288-92), dies |
| 1284 | Alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castilie/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62 |
| 1229 | Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies |
| 896 | Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies |
| 397 | Ambrosius, Governor of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies |
