| 2008 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89 |
| 2004 | Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95 |
| 2001 | Christopher Hewett, actor, TV's Mr. Belvedere, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Carl Donnell "Kansas" Fields, drummer, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Jose B. M. Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54 |
| 1994 | Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Christy Henrich, U.S. turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22 |
| 1994 | Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | John van Raay, John Oradi, radio-imitator (Paul Flanders) |
| 1993 | James Donald, actor (In Which We Serve, Way Ahead), dies at 76 |
| 1993 | James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina |
| 1992 | Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies |
| 1990 | Florida Edwards, dies of pneumonia at 79 |
| 1986 | Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Willem Ruis, Dutch TV host (Willem Ruis Show), dies at 41 |
| 1983 | Carolyn Jones, actress (Morticia-Addams Family), dies at 54 of cancer |
| 1981 | Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered |
| 1979 | Renato Fasano, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1978 | Ezzedin Kalak, Palestinian PLO representative in Paris, murdered |
| 1977 | Alfred Lunt, actor (Guardsman, Sally of Sawdust), dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Makarios III, Michail Mouskos, archbishop/president (Cyprus), dies at 63 |
| 1975 | Ruth Lee, actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World's Fair), dies at 79 |
| 1974 | Almira Sessions, actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Ariantje "Jeanne" Leg, actress (It Vijgeblaadje/It Hippie), dies at 84 |
| 1968 | Constantine Rokossovski, vice-premier of Poland (1952-56), dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Lenny Bruce, comedian, dies of a morphine overdose at 39 |
| 1964 | Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 |
| 1957 | "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer |
| 1954 | Colette, writer, best-known for novel 'Gigi', which became a stage musical, dies at 81 in Paris, France |
| 1951 | Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies |
| 1948 | Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78 |
| 1944 | Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz |
| 1940 | Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cincinnati Reds), commits suicide |
| 1939 | Eugust Enna, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1938 | Alexander Malyschkin, writer, dies |
| 1938 | Bartholomeus "Bart" de Ligt, Dutch anti-militaristic vicar, dies at 55 |
| 1934 | Carl F baron von Langen-Parow, German equestrian 1928 Olympics gold |
| 1933 | Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet), dies at 69 |
| 1924 | Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 |
| 1918 | Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41 |
| 1916 | Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 |
| 1910 | Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies |
| 1907 | August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59 |
| 1902 | August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1894 | George Inness, U.S. landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69 |
| 1890 | Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 |
| 1886 | Per August Olander, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1884 | Paul Abadie, French master builder (Sacre-Coeur, Paris), dies at 71 |
| 1877 | Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1857 | Eugene Sue, French Novelist |
| 1835 | Wenzel Muller, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1833 | Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies |
| 1825 | Ambrogio Minoja, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1823 | Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74 |
| 1811 | Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch director-general of East Indies Co, dies at 49 |
| 1805 | Christopher Anstey, English Poet |
| 1802 | Henry DFL, prince of Prussia/general/diplomat, dies |
| 1800 | Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1797 | Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America, dies at 80 |
| 1797 | Lord Amherst, British Soldier |
| 1784 | Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1780 | Etienne B de Condillac, French philosopher (sensualism), dies at 64 |
| 1779 | Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27 |
| 1716 | Sebastian Duron, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1667 | Francesco Borromini, Swiss Architect |
| 1531 | Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37 |
| 1530 | Philibert Chalon, prince of Orange/viceroy of Naples, dies |
| 1387 | Olaf V Haakonsson, King of Denmark (1376-87)/Norway (1380-87), dies |
| 808 | P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies in China |
