| 2004 | Victor Argo, American Actor |
| 2003 | David Bloom, TV journalist, died in Iraq of non-war-related causes, dies at 39 |
| 2003 | Anita Borg, American Scientist |
| 2003 | Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian Musician |
| 2001 | "Theodore Gottlieb AKA ""Brother Theodore""", comic, dies at 94 |
| 1998 | Tammy Wynette, singer, Stand by Your Man, dies at 55 |
| 1998 | Wendy O. Williams, shock rocker, Plasmatics, dies at 48 |
| 1997 | Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner for the Washington Redskins, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr. Chips), dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Vieno J Sukselainen, Prime Minister of Finland 1959 - 1961, dies |
| 1994 | Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated |
| 1994 | Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Juvenal Habayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973), assassinated |
| 1994 | Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54 |
| 1993 | Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indies actress (Diwana), dies in car at 19 |
| 1993 | Hedi Amira Nouira, Prime Minister of Tunisia 1970 - 1980, dies |
| 1992 | Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72 |
| 1992 | Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey), dies of Alzheimers at 94 |
| 1992 | Issac Asimov, American Writer |
| 1990 | Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73 |
| 1990 | Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at 57 |
| 1984 | Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies |
| 1984 | Ral Donner, singer/narrator, dies at 41 |
| 1983 | Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered |
| 1981 | Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer (Canned Heat-Goin' up the Country), dies |
| 1979 | M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61 |
| 1979 | Milton Ager, U.S. composer, dies at 85 |
| 1978 | Nicolas Nabokov, composer (Holy Devil), dies at 74 |
| 1978 | Reinoud Anders, Dutch actor (Unrest of Grave), dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies |
| 1975 | Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall), dies at 89 |
| 1972 | Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77 |
| 1971 | Igor F Strawinsky, Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps), dies at 88 |
| 1971 | Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer |
| 1968 | Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death |
| 1966 | Julia Faye, actress (10 Commandments. Samson and Delilah), dies at 73 |
| 1962 | J C Heldring, Dutch businessman, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90 |
| 1951 | Halfdan Cleve, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1947 | Vaclav Kapral, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1945 | Benjamin M Telders, president (Dutch Liberal States Party), dies at 42 |
| 1940 | Andres Isasi, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1939 | Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies |
| 1935 | Edward Arlington Robinson, U.S. poet, dies |
| 1931 | Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1926 | Giovanni Amendola, antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo), dies at 43 |
| 1919 | Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1913 | Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday |
| 1906 | Alexander L Kielland, Norwegian writer (Working People), dies at 57 |
| 1884 | Emanuel Geibel, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1865 | John Austin Wharton, U.S. Confederate general-major, dies at 36 |
| 1865 | Reuben B Boston, U.S. Confederate cavalery colonel, dies in battle |
| 1862 | Adley Hogan Gladden, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 51 |
| 1862 | Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59 |
| 1854 | William Strickland, U.S. architect, dies |
| 1838 | Jose B de Andrada e Silva, premier of Brazil (1822-23), dies at 74 |
| 1829 | Niels H Able, Norwegian mathematician (infinite series), dies at 26 |
| 1822 | Franz Xaver Partsch, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1817 | Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1805 | Lorenz Justinian Ott, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1782 | Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1779 | Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52 |
| 1707 | Willem Van de Velde, the Young, Dutch seascape painter, dies a 73 |
| 1674 | Charles de Mean, Belgian lawyer (Observations), dies at 69 |
| 1605 | John Stow, British historian, dies |
| 1593 | Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged |
| 1593 | John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged |
| 1590 | Francis Walsingham, English Secretary of State, dies at about 57 |
| 1551 | Joachim Vadianus, Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen, dies at 66 |
| 1528 | Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 |
| 1520 | Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday |
| 1490 | Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, dies |
| 1489 | Hans Waldmann, Swiss military/mayor (Zurich), beheaded |
| 1472 | Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies |
| 1362 | Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, killed in battle |
| 1348 | Petrarch's Laura, dies of plague |
| 1252 | Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45 |
| 1199 | Richard I, the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies at 41 |
| 912 | Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71 |
| 885 | Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies |
