| 2002 | Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80 |
| 2000 | Loretta Young, actress, The Bishop's Wife, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57 |
| 1996 | Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Gene Cherico, bassist, American jazz, toured with Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded with Paul Desmond, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51 |
| 1993 | Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69 |
| 1992 | Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63 |
| 1992 | John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79 |
| 1992 | Lady Rothermere, Bubbles, wife of British newspaper magnate, dies |
| 1992 | Queen Mother of Oman, dies |
| 1991 | Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies |
| 1991 | William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies |
| 1990 | Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87 |
| 1990 | Sara Seegar, Stone, actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76 |
| 1989 | William Shockley, American Physicist |
| 1988 | Jean-Michel Basquiat, U.S. musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies |
| 1985 | Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1982 | Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77 |
| 1982 | Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49 |
| 1976 | Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies |
| 1973 | Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist |
| 1969 | Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72 |
| 1968 | Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Esther Forbes, American Author |
| 1964 | Ian Fleming, British journalist and creator of 'James Bond', dies at 56 |
| 1955 | Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 |
| 1944 | Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer and choreographer (Fates d'Hebe), dies at 66 |
| 1943 | Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1938 | Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74 |
| 1934 | Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78 |
| 1928 | Leos Janacek, Czechoslovakian composer and conductor (Sly Little Fox), dies at 74 |
| 1922 | Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies |
| 1918 | Anna Held, Polish Entertainer |
| 1914 | John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies |
| 1911 | Jozef Israels, painter, dies |
| 1911 | Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79 |
| 1901 | Nils Adolf Erik, Baron Nordenskjold, geologist/explorer, dies |
| 1900 | James E Keeler, U.S. astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42 |
| 1891 | James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies |
| 1885 | Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 |
| 1885 | Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer |
| 1883 | Last Quagga, zebra with less slashes (in Artis), dies |
| 1877 | James Drummond, historical painter, dies |
| 1865 | William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies |
| 1857 | William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies |
| 1849 | Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Minister of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 |
| 1849 | Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman |
| 1848 | George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies |
| 1830 | Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1827 | William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 |
| 1822 | Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies |
| 1812 | Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1811 | John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 |
| 1797 | Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1750 | Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies |
| 1728 | Henricus Zwaardecroon, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, dies at 61 |
| 1715 | Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies |
| 1689 | Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, Pope (1676-89), dies at 78 |
| 1676 | King Philip, Metacomet, leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death |
| 1675 | Karl Rabenhaupt, GermanNetherlands baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 |
| 1674 | Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies |
| 1660 | Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 |
| 1654 | Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 |
| 1638 | Johannes Althusius, Althaut, German lawyer, dies at about 81 |
| 1633 | Jacopo Peri, Italian opera composer, dies at 71 |
| 1612 | Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 |
| 1588 | Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1546 | Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies |
| 1484 | Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere, Pope (1471-84), dies |
| 1350 | Philip VI, king of France, dies |
| 1158 | Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies |
| 875 | Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 |
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