| 1997 | Brandon Tartikoff, TV executive (NBC), dies at 48 |
| 1997 | Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman and Robin), dies of heart failure at 40 |
| 1996 | Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73), dies |
| 1996 | Greg Morris, actor (Mission Impossible), dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Dick Bentley, entertainer, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Roberto Goyeneche, El Polaco, Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies |
| 1993 | Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies |
| 1991 | Vince Taylor, Brian Holden, British singer (Brand new Cadillac), dies |
| 1990 | Raymond St. Jacques, actor/dir (Falcon Crest), dies of cancer at 60 |
| 1990 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35 |
| 1984 | Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73 |
| 1981 | Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62 |
| 1980 | Sam Levenson, humorist (Sam Levenson Show), dies at 68 |
| 1979 | Boleslaw Szabelski, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA |
| 1979 | Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14 |
| 1978 | Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1977 | George Merritt, actor (I Monster, Canterbury Tale), dies at 86 |
| 1977 | Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83 |
| 1971 | Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73 |
| 1971 | Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, dies at 67 |
| 1969 | Claire Whitney, silent film actress (Blind Fools), dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies |
| 1969 | Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies |
| 1969 | Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies |
| 1968 | Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61 |
| 1968 | William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies |
| 1967 | Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32 |
| 1967 | Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63 |
| 1965 | Edmond of Dooren, Flemish painter, dies at 68 |
| 1965 | Le Corbusier, Charles Jeanneret, Swiss/French architect, dies at 77 |
| 1965 | Otto Reinhold, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1964 | Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1964 | Gracie Allen, actress (Burns and Allen), dies at 62 |
| 1963 | W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana |
| 1963 | William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies |
| 1962 | Carlos Lavin, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1958 | Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 |
| 1958 | Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist |
| 1955 | Joachim Wach, philosopher/sociologist (Sociology of Religion), dies |
| 1953 | Nicolai Berezowsky, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1950 | Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41 |
| 1949 | Arthur Chesney, actor (Lodger, Chelsea Life), dies at 67 |
| 1948 | Oley Speaks, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1948 | Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1948 | Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge |
| 1943 | Otto Selz, German psychologist (In Auschwitz), dies |
| 1937 | Andrew Mellon, American Businessman |
| 1931 | Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies |
| 1931 | Frank Harris, Irish Author |
| 1930 | Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62 |
| 1922 | Carl Fuchs, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1919 | Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies |
| 1914 | John Weiss, German new testament, dies |
| 1910 | Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death |
| 1887 | Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1883 | August Friedrich Pott, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1879 | Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps, dies at 84 |
| 1874 | Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies |
| 1874 | John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies |
| 1868 | Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1867 | Karol Katski, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1865 | Jozef Nowakowski, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1865 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author |
| 1855 | Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1846 | Frantiszek Scigalski, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1846 | Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1841 | Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1840 | William Kneass, 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office |
| 1830 | Louis H J Conde, French prince, commits suicide at 74 |
| 1828 | Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84 |
| 1827 | Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies |
| 1748 | James Thomson, dies |
| 1746 | Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, composer, dies |
| 1667 | Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, buried at 33 |
| 1651 | Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43 |
| 1635 | Lope Felix de Vega, playwright and poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72 |
| 1635 | Lope de Vega, Spanish Playwright |
| 1611 | Tomas L de Victoria, Spanish composer/singer/organist, dies |
| 1608 | Hendrik van Kinschot, Henricus Kinschotus, lawyer, dies at 66 |
| 1590 | Sixtus V, Felice Peretti/"Montalto", Pope (1585-90), dies at 68 |
| 1576 | Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague |
| 1522 | Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75 |
| 1521 | Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies |
| 1208 | Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angeles, dies |
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