| 2004 | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, writer/physician, On Death and Dying, dies at 78 |
| 2003 | John Jacob Rhodes, Representative-R-Arizona 1953 - 1983, died from cancer |
| 1999 | Mary Jane Croft, actress, The Lucy Show, dies at 83 |
| 1998 | E. G. Marshall, actor, The Defenders, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42 |
| 1995 | Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Gary Crosby, singer and actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61 |
| 1994 | Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23 |
| 1994 | Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48 |
| 1991 | Abel Kivlat, U.S. 1500m runner. Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies at 99 |
| 1991 | Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Netherlands/Indian writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97 |
| 1988 | Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49 |
| 1988 | Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69 |
| 1987 | Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], U.S. composer, dies at 78 |
| 1983 | Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64 |
| 1983 | Shawn Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD |
| 1978 | Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66 |
| 1978 | Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died |
| 1976 | Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Charles H Revson, U.S. cosmetic magnate, dies at 69 |
| 1973 | Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, U.S. jazz saxophonist, dies at 59 |
| 1972 | Don Byas, American Musician |
| 1967 | Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85 |
| 1964 | Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Henry George Ley, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1958 | John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 |
| 1958 | Kenneth Leighton, composer, dies at 28 |
| 1958 | Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1957 | Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1954 | Getulio D Vargas, president/dictator Brazil: 1930 - 1945, 1951 - 1954, suicide at 71 |
| 1950 | Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1943 | Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies |
| 1943 | Simone Weil, French philosopher (Le pesanteur et la grace), dies at 34 |
| 1940 | Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80 |
| 1939 | Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist |
| 1923 | Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66 |
| 1907 | Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies |
| 1895 | John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 |
| 1889 | Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies |
| 1888 | Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies |
| 1841 | Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1840 | Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1833 | Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65 |
| 1806 | Paul-Louis Cyffle, Flemish sculptor/goldsmith (Terre Lorraine), dies |
| 1801 | Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68 |
| 1770 | Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies |
| 1759 | Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 |
| 1724 | Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1712 | Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1680 | Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried |
| 1680 | Thomas Blood, English Soldier |
| 1666 | Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 |
| 1647 | Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61 |
| 1595 | Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies |
| 1572 | Charles de Feligny, French officer/huguenot, murdered |
| 1572 | Gaspard de Chatillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded |
| 1371 | Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated |
| 1313 | Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies |
| 1217 | Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle |
| 1103 | Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies |
