| 2004 | Alexandra Scott, young philanthropist, raised over $700,000 for cancer research in 4 years by selling lemonade, dies at 8 |
| 2003 | Marie Trintignant, French Actress |
| 2003 | Tom Lewis, Representative-R-Florida 1983 - 1995, died of natural causes |
| 1997 | Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau, 1989-1992, dies |
| 1997 | Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82 |
| 1996 | Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies |
| 1996 | Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 |
| 1995 | Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies |
| 1995 | Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Alfred Manessier, French painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81 |
| 1993 | Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered |
| 1993 | Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (Kansas City Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76 |
| 1993 | Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered |
| 1992 | Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer, Stan Kenton Orchestra, dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1992 | Kenny Sacha, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), dies of AIDS at 39 |
| 1992 | Stanley Dudek, U.S. platform diver (watershows), dies |
| 1991 | Stuart Wilson, actor (Lethal Weapon 3), dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Norbert Elias, German/English/Netherlands philosopher/sociologist, dies |
| 1989 | John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52 |
| 1988 | Florence Eldridge, Broadway actress (The Swan), dies at 86 |
| 1988 | John Cardinal Dearden, U.S. cardinal, dies at 80 |
| 1988 | Trindad Silva, actor (Hill St. Blues), dies at 38 in an auto accident |
| 1987 | Benson Fong, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart), dies at 70 |
| 1987 | Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92 |
| 1986 | Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73 |
| 1985 | Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92 |
| 1983 | Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62 |
| 1981 | Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) dies of cancer at 58 |
| 1981 | Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1980 | Strother Martin, actor (Slapshot), dies of heart attack at 61 |
| 1979 | Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71 |
| 1977 | Francis Gary Powers, U.S. U-2 pilot, dies at 47 |
| 1975 | Howard Joslin, actor (Quebec, Detective Story), dies at 68 |
| 1973 | Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1973 | Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80 |
| 1970 | Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55 |
| 1966 | Bud Powell, U.S. jazz pianist/composer, dies |
| 1966 | Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 13 at University of Texas, shot by cops |
| 1965 | Kiyoshi Nobutoki, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1964 | Johnny Burnette, rocker, drowns at 30 |
| 1963 | Theodore Roethke, U.S. poet (Praise to the end!), dies |
| 1962 | Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62 |
| 1954 | Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies |
| 1946 | Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 |
| 1944 | Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, President of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65 |
| 1943 | Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68 |
| 1940 | Paul Hirsch, German Politician |
| 1934 | Piotr Maszynski, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1926 | Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies |
| 1925 | John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61 |
| 1922 | Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1920 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies |
| 1916 | Claude Newberry, South Africa cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies |
| 1911 | Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das grosse Duden Lexicon), dies |
| 1902 | Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies |
| 1884 | Heinrich Laube, writer, dies |
| 1883 | Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies |
| 1882 | Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43 |
| 1857 | Charles Turner, engraver, dies |
| 1846 | Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1837 | Walter Geikie, painter, dies |
| 1834 | Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies |
| 1821 | Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68 |
| 1813 | Carl Stenborg, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1805 | Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1787 | Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 |
| 1743 | Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 |
| 1714 | Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49 |
| 1667 | Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48 |
| 1628 | Francesco Gonzaga, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1589 | Jacques Clement, French monk (Henri III), dies |
| 1457 | Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 |
| 1190 | Floris III, Count of Holland, dies |
| 1137 | Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37) |
| 527 | Justinus I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies |
