| 2006 | Joseph Stefano, American Writer |
| 2002 | William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | Aaliyah, hip hop singer/actress, dies at 22 |
| 2000 | Carl Barks, cartoonist, Donald Duck, dies at 99 |
| 1998 | Lewis Powell, Supreme Court Justice, dies at 90 |
| 1998 | Marshall Barer, lyricist, Once Upon a Mattress, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies |
| 1997 | James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64 |
| 1996 | Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Les Burns, local councillor, dies at 53 |
| 1996 | Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41 |
| 1995 | Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer |
| 1994 | Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52 |
| 1993 | Amy Biehl, U.S. activist in South Africa, murdered at 26 |
| 1992 | Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65 |
| 1992 | Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White and 21), dies at 86 |
| 1992 | Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56 |
| 1991 | Niven Busch, U.S. writer (Duel in the Sun), dies |
| 1991 | Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide |
| 1989 | Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1988 | Price Daniel, Governor-D-Texas 1957 - 1963 and Senator-D-Texas 1953 - 1957, dies at 77 |
| 1986 | Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51 |
| 1985 | Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13 |
| 1984 | Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59 |
| 1984 | Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84 |
| 1982 | John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27 |
| 1980 | Gower Champion, dancer (Marge and Gower Champion Show), dies at 60 |
| 1979 | Stan Kenton, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at 67 |
| 1976 | Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | John R Dunning, U.S. physicist, dies at 67 |
| 1972 | Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1972 | Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Ted Lewis, Theodore L Friedman, bandleader, dies at 80 |
| 1968 | John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 |
| 1967 | George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated |
| 1967 | Paul Muni, actor (Good Earth), dies after lengthy illness at 71 |
| 1958 | Leo Blech, studied with Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer, dies at 87 |
| 1957 | Leo Perutz, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938, dies in Bad Ischi, Austria |
| 1956 | Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies |
| 1956 | Alfred Kinsey, American Scientist |
| 1947 | Clark Wissler, U.S. cultural anthropologist, dies at 76 |
| 1944 | Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death |
| 1944 | Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies |
| 1942 | George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1942 | Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1942 | W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded |
| 1938 | Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67 |
| 1936 | Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies |
| 1930 | Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1904 | William Hall, Canadian Soldier |
| 1901 | Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever |
| 1900 | Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55 |
| 1900 | Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher |
| 1868 | Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60 |
| 1868 | Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62 |
| 1868 | Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66 |
| 1846 | Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 |
| 1842 | Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1840 | K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44 |
| 1835 | Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Illinois at 22 |
| 1822 | F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85 |
| 1800 | Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer |
| 1791 | Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies |
| 1789 | Mary Ball Washington, mother of George Washington, dies |
| 1776 | David Hume, Scottish Philosopher |
| 1774 | Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1773 | Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1742 | Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1688 | Henry Morgan, Welsh lieutenant governor of Jamaica |
| 1650 | Richard Crashaw, English Poet |
| 1649 | Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 |
| 1649 | Thomas Shepard, American Clergyman |
| 1580 | Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1556 | David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54 |
| 1554 | Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies |
| 1346 | Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle |
| 1270 | Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56 |
| 1227 | Ghengis Khan, Temudjin, founded Mongolia, dies |
| 882 | Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19 |
| 383 | Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25 |
| 79 | Gaius Plinius Secundus, Plinius Maior, Roman admiral/writer, dies |
