| 2001 | "Willie ""Pops"" Stargell", baseball great/humanitarian, dies at 61 |
| 2000 | Catherine Crook de Camp, writer, The Day of the Dinosaur, dies at 92 |
| 1998 | Tom Cora, American Musician |
| 1997 | Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | James William Rouse, U.S. builder (shopping malls), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Sandy Becker, New York City Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | James Rouse, American Businessman |
| 1995 | James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis, Jr., Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered |
| 1993 | Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Ruth Hammond, dies in her sleep at 96 |
| 1991 | Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies), dies at 73 |
| 1988 | Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis |
| 1988 | Dave Prater, rocker (Sam and Dave), dies in a car crash at 50 |
| 1986 | Jean Mogin, Belgian poet, dies at 64 |
| 1984 | Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies |
| 1982 | Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies |
| 1982 | Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Kathleen Burke, dies |
| 1979 | Staats Cotsworth, dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957, dies at 46 |
| 1976 | Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35 |
| 1972 | James F. Byrnes, American Politician |
| 1966 | Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57 |
| 1962 | Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter, dies at 70 |
| 1961 | Zog I, Ahmed Zogu, King of Albania (1925-39), dies at 65 |
| 1959 | Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89 |
| 1954 | Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1951 | Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga), dies |
| 1951 | Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian/U.S. physicist/meteorology, dies at 89 |
| 1948 | Jorge Elecier Gaitan, Colombian politician, murdered |
| 1947 | Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1945 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist/antifascist, hanged |
| 1945 | Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged |
| 1945 | Hans von Dohnanyi, "July 20th plotter", hanged |
| 1945 | Theodor Haecker, German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged |
| 1944 | Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1940 | Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies |
| 1939 | Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1933 | Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1931 | Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1923 | Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies |
| 1917 | Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I |
| 1916 | Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1909 | Charles Conder, artist, dies |
| 1909 | Francis Marion Crawford, |
| 1904 | Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68), dies at 73 |
| 1893 | Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1886 | Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 |
| 1882 | D G Rossetti, writer, dies at 53 |
| 1882 | Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53 |
| 1882 | Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Melanges), dies at 66 |
| 1879 | Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1865 | Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major, dies at 32 |
| 1862 | George W. Johnson, U.S. planter/Confederate (gov-Kentucky), dies at about 50 |
| 1852 | John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies |
| 1851 | Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1850 | William Prout, physician/chemist, dies |
| 1821 | Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1807 | John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London |
| 1806 | Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, dies at 58 |
| 1804 | Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman, dies |
| 1793 | Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1765 | Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 77 |
| 1761 | William Law, theologian, dies |
| 1754 | Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75 |
| 1747 | Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies |
| 1747 | Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England |
| 1693 | Roger de Rabutin, French Writer |
| 1681 | Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1626 | Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, statesman, dies |
| 1557 | Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies |
| 1553 | Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 |
| 1492 | Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies |
| 1483 | Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) dies at 38 |
| 1024 | Benedict VIII, Theophylactus van Tusculum, Pope (1012-24), dies |
| 715 | Constantine I, Greek/Syrian Pope (708-15), dies |
