| 2007 | Max Roach, dies in Manhattan, at 83 |
| 2004 | J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman |
| 2003 | Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator, dies at 78 |
| 2002 | Jeff Corey, actor/teacher, blacklisted actor during the McCarthy era, dies at 88 |
| 2001 | Floyd Spence, Representative-R-South Carolina 1971 - 2001, died of complications from surgery |
| 1998 | Dorothy West, writer, The Wedding, dies at 91 |
| 1998 | Phil Leeds, actor, Ally McBeal, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Gerard McLarnon, actor and writer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31 |
| 1996 | Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89 |
| 1995 | John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36 |
| 1994 | Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40 |
| 1994 | Henry Geldzahler, U.S. critic, dies |
| 1994 | John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1993 | Irene Sharaff, U.S. costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies |
| 1993 | Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80 |
| 1993 | Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56 |
| 1992 | Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack |
| 1991 | Frederic Mares, Spanish sculptor, dies |
| 1991 | Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43 |
| 1991 | Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16 |
| 1991 | Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer |
| 1989 | Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58 |
| 1988 | Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1986 | John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 |
| 1984 | Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1978 | Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, dies at 90 |
| 1977 | Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42 |
| 1976 | Beppie Nooij, Jr., Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies |
| 1973 | Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54 |
| 1972 | John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1971 | Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78 |
| 1969 | Russ Bender, actor and writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59 |
| 1968 | Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58 |
| 1965 | Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1964 | Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68 |
| 1959 | Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74 |
| 1959 | William "Bull" F Halsey, U.S. Vice-Admiral (WW II Pacific), dies |
| 1958 | Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85 |
| 1956 | Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1951 | Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63 |
| 1949 | Margaret Mitchell, U.S. writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48 |
| 1948 | Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (New York Yankees), dies in New York at 53 |
| 1946 | Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism) |
| 1945 | Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1945 | Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies |
| 1944 | Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28 |
| 1940 | Billy Fiske, U.S. RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries |
| 1940 | Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 |
| 1938 | Robert Johnson, U.S. Delta-blues singer and guitarist, poisoned at 27 |
| 1929 | Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1920 | J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies |
| 1911 | Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1910 | Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1900 | Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies |
| 1900 | Jose de Queiros, Portuguese writer (Bullock Maias), dies at 54 |
| 1894 | Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70 |
| 1886 | Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50 |
| 1870 | Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1864 | John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 |
| 1854 | Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies |
| 1831 | Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1825 | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman |
| 1824 | Charles Thomson, American Public Servant |
| 1807 | Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72 |
| 1799 | Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1786 | Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80 |
| 1748 | Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1738 | Joe Miller, English comic, dies |
| 1705 | Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 |
| 1678 | Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 |
| 1675 | Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies |
| 1661 | Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 |
| 1603 | Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 |
| 1532 | Johan de Standvastige, monarch of Saxon (Schmalkaldisch), dies |
| 1508 | Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Germany viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41 |
| 1419 | Wenzel/Vaclav IV, [Wenceslas], drunken RC German king, dies at 58 |
