| 2005 | Robert Moog, American Inventor |
| 2003 | Wesley Willis, American Musician |
| 2000 | Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies |
| 1996 | Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39 |
| 1995 | James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 |
| 1994 | Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73 |
| 1992 | Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 |
| 1992 | Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65 |
| 1991 | Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 |
| 1991 | Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75 |
| 1991 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies |
| 1990 | George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya |
| 1988 | Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78 |
| 1987 | Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies |
| 1983 | Benigno S Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 |
| 1982 | Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies |
| 1981 | Hermann Schey, German/Netherlands singer, dies at 85 |
| 1978 | Charles Eames, U.S. chair manufacturer, dies at 71 |
| 1977 | Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Mascha Kaleko, writer, German language poet, dies at 48 |
| 1971 | George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29 |
| 1970 | Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1968 | Vladimir Boudnik, Czechoslovakian sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 |
| 1964 | Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies |
| 1958 | Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1958 | Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44 |
| 1952 | Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies |
| 1949 | Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1947 | Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies |
| 1943 | Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 |
| 1943 | William Lyon Phelps, American Educator |
| 1942 | Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 |
| 1940 | Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68 |
| 1935 | Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1932 | Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1905 | Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 |
| 1898 | Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1888 | Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 |
| 1864 | John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 |
| 1856 | Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1838 | A vs. Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1838 | Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet |
| 1824 | John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 |
| 1824 | Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1812 | Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1798 | Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 |
| 1798 | James Wilson, American Politician |
| 1785 | Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies |
| 1772 | Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1772 | Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1723 | Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 |
| 1673 | Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 |
| 1673 | John de Love I, Vice-Admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 |
| 1629 | Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies |
| 1627 | Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1516 | John III van Egmont, Manke John, viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 |
| 1245 | Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies |
| 1190 | Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies |
| 1131 | Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies |
