| 2009 | Ellie Greenwich, record producer, singer, songwriter, rock and roll, pop music genres, co-wrote 'Da Doo Ron Ron', dies in Manhattan, New York, at age 68 |
| 2005 | Wolfgang Bauer, writer, playwright, works translated into 24 languages, include, 'Magic Afternoon', 'Change', dies of heart failure in Graz, Styria |
| 2004 | Laura Branigan, singer, How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?, dies at 47 |
| 1998 | Frederick Reines, American Physicist |
| 1996 | Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Catherine Mary Hall, nurse, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | David James Moore, educationalist, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | Evelyn Wood, speed reading guru, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Omukama Patrick D Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro, dies at 49 |
| 1995 | Ronald Anthony White, Jr., singer, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54 |
| 1993 | Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61 |
| 1992 | Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies |
| 1989 | Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies |
| 1989 | Irving Stone, U.S. writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies |
| 1988 | Paul Francis Lloyd, entertainer, dies |
| 1986 | Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park |
| 1986 | Ted Knight, Tadeus Konopka, actor (Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 62 |
| 1985 | Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76 |
| 1984 | Julie Stevens, actress (Lorelei-Big Town), dies at 67 |
| 1983 | Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at 61 of cancer |
| 1981 | Lee Hays, rocker, dies of a heart attack |
| 1981 | Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 |
| 1980 | Miliza Korjus, actress (Great Waltz), dies at 71 |
| 1980 | Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, doc?), dies at 72 |
| 1978 | Charles Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1977 | HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78 |
| 1977 | Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1977 | Willis Bouchey, actor (Battle Cry, From Here to Eternity), dies at 34 |
| 1976 | Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88 |
| 1976 | Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton Place), dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Cullen Landis, entertainer, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Charles Lindbergh, aviator, dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 |
| 1971 | Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1968 | Kay Francis, actress (Charley's Aunt, Play Girl), dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1967 | Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1966 | Art Baker, TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67 |
| 1963 | Larry Keating, actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67 |
| 1961 | Gail Russell, actress 'Calcutta', 'Moonrise', 'El Paso', dies at 36 |
| 1960 | Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1958 | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85 |
| 1949 | Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70 |
| 1948 | Oscar L Fernandez, Brazilian conductor and composer (Imbapara), dies at 50 |
| 1945 | Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 |
| 1930 | Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47 |
| 1921 | Ludwig Thoma, writer, dies |
| 1921 | Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45 |
| 1921 | Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies |
| 1910 | William James, American Philosopher |
| 1894 | PPH van Ham, general-major, dies in battle on Lombok |
| 1873 | Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1869 | Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54 |
| 1865 | Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 |
| 1865 | Marcellus Monroe Crocker, U.S. attorney/Union Brigadier-General, dies at 35 |
| 1863 | John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies |
| 1860 | Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1860 | Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1849 | Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1832 | Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96 |
| 1813 | Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1813 | Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 |
| 1770 | Domingos dos Reis Quita, Portuguese playwright and poet, dies at 42 |
| 1723 | Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 |
| 1712 | Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1683 | Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1661 | Louis Couperin, composer, dies |
| 1616 | Johan van de Veeken, merchant/co-founder (VOC), dies at 66 |
| 1518 | Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara |
| 1486 | Ernst I, ruler of Saxon (1464-86), dies at 45 |
| 1368 | Engelbrecht van der Mark, prince-Bishop of Luik (1345-64), dies |
| 1346 | Jan de Blinde, King of Bohemia/count of Luxemburg, dies in battle |
| 1278 | Ottokar II, King of Bohemia (1253-78), dies in battle |
| 526 | Theodorik the Great, King of Italy, dies |
