| 2002 | John Agar, actor, the original The Thing, dies at 81 |
| 2001 | Beatrice Straight, actress, Network, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 |
| 1998 | Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi |
| 1994 | Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Francois de Grossouvre, President Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76 |
| 1994 | Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 |
| 1994 | Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41 |
| 1993 | Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45 |
| 1992 | Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72 |
| 1992 | Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46 |
| 1992 | Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39 |
| 1989 | Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123 |
| 1988 | Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74 |
| 1987 | Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], U.S. actress (Going Places), dies at 75 |
| 1984 | Frank Church, Senator-D-Ohio 1957 - 1981, dies at 59 |
| 1984 | Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79 |
| 1983 | Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36 |
| 1979 | Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Siegfried Buback, West German procureur-general, murdered attorney-general |
| 1976 | Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1972 | "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party |
| 1972 | Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered |
| 1972 | Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, Gold Medals 1928, 1932 Olympics, dies at 74 |
| 1970 | Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st President Samora Machel, dies |
| 1968 | Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car |
| 1967 | Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood |
| 1961 | Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1961 | Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1958 | Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1958 | Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1958 | Elliot Paul, American Journalist |
| 1955 | Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62 |
| 1950 | Walter Huston, dies at 66 |
| 1947 | Henry Ford, American Businessman |
| 1943 | Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72 |
| 1934 | William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston |
| 1933 | Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered |
| 1932 | Erv A Kelley, U.S. policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd |
| 1917 | Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1891 | Phineas T Barnum, U.S. circus promoter (B and Bailey), dies at 88 |
| 1891 | P. T. Barnum, American Entertainer |
| 1884 | Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80 |
| 1881 | Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65 |
| 1880 | Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1877 | Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1875 | Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1871 | Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old |
| 1871 | Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43 |
| 1862 | Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1858 | Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1850 | William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 |
| 1842 | Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50 |
| 1833 | Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57 |
| 1810 | Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61 |
| 1803 | [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies |
| 1789 | Abdul-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64 |
| 1789 | Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66 |
| 1783 | Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1778 | Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1768 | Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1767 | Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1766 | Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81 |
| 1719 | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67 |
| 1668 | William Davenant, English Poet |
| 1614 | El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1524 | Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1498 | Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27 |
| 1444 | John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50 |
| 924 | Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered |
| 30 | Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies |
