| 2008 | Charlton Heston, dies at 84, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, by his side |
| 2005 | Dale Messick, American Artist |
| 2002 | Layne Staley, Grunge rocker, Alice in Chains, dies at 34 |
| 2000 | Lee Petty, American Celebrity |
| 1997 | Allen Ginsberg, beat poet |
| 1997 | Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies |
| 1996 | Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Christian Pineau, French politician, dies |
| 1994 | Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37 |
| 1994 | Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94 |
| 1994 | Kurt Cobain, American Musician |
| 1992 | Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1992 | Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80 |
| 1991 | John Tower, Senator-R-Texas 1961 - 1985, dies in a plane crash at 65 |
| 1991 | Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter, Jr., USN/astro (STS-33), dies at 43 |
| 1990 | Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at 59 |
| 1988 | Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies |
| 1986 | Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82 |
| 1984 | Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies |
| 1984 | Theo Koomen, Dutch sportscaster, dies in auto-accident at 54 |
| 1982 | Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71 |
| 1981 | Bob "Bear" Hite, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36 |
| 1981 | Cornelis Verolme, Dutch ship builder, dies at 80 |
| 1977 | John Marriott, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Inez Courtney, dies at 67 |
| 1975 | Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier 1963 - 1965, dies at 58 |
| 1974 | William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49 |
| 1972 | Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73 |
| 1972 | Isabel Jewell, dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, oboist/conductor, dies at 78 |
| 1969 | Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 |
| 1968 | Lois Andrews, dies of lung cancer at 44 |
| 1966 | Sven Fleuron, writer, dies at 91 |
| 1964 | Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84 |
| 1963 | Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73 |
| 1963 | Julius Harrison, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1960 | Alma Kruger, actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88 |
| 1958 | Jozef Brems, Flemish apostole vicar of Denmark, dies at 87 |
| 1954 | Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1952 | Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Edward Rigby, dies at 72 |
| 1946 | Vincent Millie Youmans, U.S. composer (Tea For Two), dies at 47 |
| 1945 | Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1944 | Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet (Meine Mutter), dies at 90 |
| 1944 | Willy Derby, Dieben, singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies |
| 1935 | Emil Mlynarski, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1934 | Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1928 | Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies |
| 1928 | Chauncey Depew, American Politician |
| 1923 | George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, egyptologist, dies at 56 |
| 1922 | Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/Minister of Justice, dies at 85 |
| 1921 | Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (Missa), dies at 58 |
| 1918 | Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73 |
| 1908 | Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1907 | Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at 65 |
| 1900 | Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/South African general, dies in battle |
| 1896 | John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1884 | John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies |
| 1878 | Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1871 | Georg Andreas Henkel, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1820 | Henrik C Cras, lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at 81 |
| 1811 | Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies |
| 1794 | Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 |
| 1794 | Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies |
| 1794 | Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary |
| 1765 | Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81 |
| 1732 | Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1723 | J Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect (Hofburg, Vienna), dies at 66 |
| 1712 | John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63 |
| 1697 | Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97), dies at 41 |
| 1695 | George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax, dies at 61 |
| 1693 | Anne M L of Orleans, duchess (Grande Mademoiselle), dies at 65 |
| 1684 | William Brouncker, 2nd viscount/1st President of Royal Society, dies |
| 1673 | Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72 |
| 1649 | John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61 |
| 1531 | Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop |
| 1270 | Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies |
| 1258 | Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies |
| 828 | Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77 |
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