| 2008 | John F. Seiberling, Representative-D-Ohio, 1971 - 1986, died of respiratory failure |
| 1999 | Willie Morris, writer, The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, dies at 63 |
| 1998 | Shari Lewis, puppeteer, dies at 65 |
| 1997 | William S. Burroughs, author, Naked Lunch, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Michel Debre, Prime Minister of France in 1959 - 1962, dies |
| 1996 | U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies |
| 1995 | Colin Gray, fighter ace in World War II, recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38 |
| 1992 | Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies |
| 1992 | Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44 |
| 1992 | Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies |
| 1992 | Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44 |
| 1991 | Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera and Richard Cohen |
| 1991 | Helen Page Camp, |
| 1990 | Norman Maclean, American Author |
| 1988 | Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50 |
| 1988 | Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1987 | Myron Stout, U.S. abstract artist, dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Roy Marcus Cohn, U.S. lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies |
| 1985 | Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79 |
| 1985 | Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies |
| 1982 | Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 |
| 1982 | Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1979 | Thurmon Munson, New York Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 |
| 1978 | Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79 |
| 1978 | Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82 |
| 1978 | Totie Fields, Sophie Feldman, comedienne, dies at about 48 |
| 1976 | Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 |
| 1972 | Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29 |
| 1972 | Paul Goodman, U.S. social critic/writer, dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1971 | Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77 |
| 1969 | Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96 |
| 1965 | Milton B Babbitt, U.S. composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49 |
| 1964 | Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee and Molly), dies at 69 |
| 1964 | Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, U.S. anthropologist/writer, dies at 61 |
| 1961 | Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 |
| 1959 | Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 |
| 1956 | Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109 |
| 1955 | Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-Field Marshal, dies |
| 1955 | Wallace Stevens, U.S. poet and writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75 |
| 1954 | Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1945 | Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85 |
| 1945 | Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81 |
| 1943 | Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death |
| 1942 | Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77 |
| 1941 | Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70 |
| 1938 | Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1936 | Louis Bieriot, aviator, dies |
| 1934 | Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86 |
| 1934 | Paul von Hindenburg, German Soldier |
| 1932 | Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1923 | Warren Harding, 29th President (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel San Francisco at 57 |
| 1922 | Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies |
| 1922 | [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 |
| 1921 | Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 |
| 1916 | Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1914 | Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1903 | Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane, U.S. desperado, dies |
| 1892 | Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72 |
| 1881 | Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 |
| 1876 | Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's |
| 1873 | Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1872 | Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 |
| 1869 | Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+ |
| 1859 | Horace Mann, American Educator |
| 1858 | A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76 |
| 1849 | Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies |
| 1827 | James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1811 | William Williams, U.S. merchant and signer, Declaration of Independence, dies at 80 |
| 1799 | Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies at 54 |
| 1792 | Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1788 | Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 |
| 1655 | Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83 |
| 1649 | Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Admiral Swartenhondt, dies at about 78 |
| 1600 | Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70 |
| 1589 | Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37 |
| 1512 | Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 |
| 1451 | Elisabeth von Gorlitz, duchess of Luxembourg, dies |
| 1332 | Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handfaestning), dies at 55 |
| 1100 | William II, Rufus, king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 |
| 1075 | John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies |
| 1002 | Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 |
| 686 | John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies |
| 640 | Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies |
| 257 | Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies |
