| 2007 | Phil Rizzuto, dies in New Jersey, in his sleep, at 89 |
| 2004 | Julia Child, French Chef, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, dies at 91 |
| 2003 | Ed Townsend, American Musician |
| 1996 | Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, soldier/polititican, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Antonio de Spinola, general of Portugal, dies |
| 1996 | David Tudor, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Tom Mees, ESPN sports anchors (NHL), drowns at 46 |
| 1996 | W Gordon Smith, playwright, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 33 |
| 1995 | Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Mickey Mantle, baseball great, New York Yankees, dies of cancer at 63 |
| 1995 | Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Manfred Worner, German general/Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Elias Canetti, Swiss Author |
| 1992 | Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40 |
| 1992 | Clifford Allison, U.S. stock-car racer, dies in an accident |
| 1992 | David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia |
| 1992 | Jan Elburg, Joannes G, poet (Geen letterheren), dies |
| 1991 | Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels), dies at 65 |
| 1991 | James Roosevelt, American Politician |
| 1991 | Richard Snelling, American Politician |
| 1990 | Jimmy Starr, actor (Hot Flashes), dies at 86 |
| 1989 | Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS |
| 1988 | Otto E. Passman, Representative-D-Louisiana 1947 - 1977, dies at 88 |
| 1987 | Vincent Persichetti, U.S. composer (Sibyl), dies at 72 |
| 1986 | Helen Mack, actress (Son of Kong, Milky Way), dies |
| 1985 | Marion Martin, actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67 |
| 1984 | Clyde Cook, actor (Dawn Patrol, Jazz Heaven), dies in his sleep at 92 |
| 1982 | Charles Walters, U.S. actor/choreographer/dir (High Society), dies at 70 |
| 1982 | Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 77 |
| 1982 | Joe Tex, Joseph Arrington Jr, singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49 |
| 1977 | Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies |
| 1975 | Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is Culture?), dies at 81 |
| 1974 | Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch playwright (Arid Earth), dies at 75 |
| 1972 | George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | King Curtis, Curtis Ousley, U.S. musician, murdered at 37 |
| 1970 | Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1967 | Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87 |
| 1961 | Adeline De Walt Reynolds, actress (Son of Dracula), dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Henry Garat, actor (Congress Dances), dies at 57 |
| 1954 | Hermann W. S. Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71 |
| 1953 | Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1951 | Emmet Fox, American Author |
| 1948 | Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist, dies |
| 1946 | H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79 |
| 1946 | Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1946 | H. G. Wells, English Author |
| 1940 | George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75 |
| 1933 | Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1928 | Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1927 | James Curwood, U.S. journalist and writer (Valley of Silent Men), dies at 49 |
| 1924 | Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1916 | Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1915 | George Joseph Smith, British Criminal |
| 1913 | F August Bebel, German social-democrat, dies |
| 1912 | Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70 |
| 1912 | Jules Massenet, French Composer |
| 1910 | Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90 |
| 1908 | Ira D Sankey, U.S. evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67 |
| 1897 | Antonius von der Linde, Netherlands/German librarian, dies at 63 |
| 1896 | John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 |
| 1895 | Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies |
| 1886 | Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1865 | Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist, dies at 47 |
| 1860 | Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro, dies |
| 1841 | Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73 |
| 1841 | Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies |
| 1808 | Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1787 | Isaac de Pinto, merchant/lender/Dutch States-general, dies |
| 1762 | John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64 |
| 1749 | J E Schlegel, writer, dies |
| 1674 | Lars Johnstown, Lasse Lucidor, Swedish poet, dies at 35 |
| 1667 | Jeremy Taylor, British Clergyman |
| 1637 | Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies |
| 1278 | Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65 |
| 1191 | Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies |
| 1134 | Irene [Pirisca], Byzantine empress, dies |
| 900 | Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29 |
| 662 | Maximus Confessor, Greek theologist/crusader, dies |
| 587 | Radegundis, daughter of Thurings king Berthar/saint, dies |
