| 2005 | James H. Scheuer, Representative-D-New York 1965 - 1973, 1975 - 1983 and 1983 - 1993, died of natural causes at age 85 |
| 2003 | Charles Bronson, tough actor, Death Wish, dies at 81 |
| 2002 | J. Lee Thompson, British Director |
| 1996 | Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43 |
| 1996 | Jose Toribio Merino, admiral/military junta of Chile 1973 - 1980, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Dame Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian, dies at 96 |
| 1995 | Fischer S Black, Jr., financial Theorist, dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician, dies at 53 |
| 1995 | Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike and Spike Festival), dies at 42 |
| 1993 | Richard Jordan, U.S. actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55 |
| 1991 | Alan Wheatley |
| 1991 | Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies |
| 1991 | Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies |
| 1989 | Joe De Santis, dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Otto Mortensen, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1982 | Leo Pappenheim, conductor, dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb |
| 1981 | Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb |
| 1981 | Vera-Ellen, actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town), dies of cancer at 55 |
| 1974 | Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87 |
| 1970 | Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41 |
| 1970 | Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53 |
| 1970 | Abraham Zapruder, Ukrainian Businessman |
| 1968 | William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53 |
| 1967 | Ad Reinhardt, American Artist |
| 1964 | Wesley Lau, actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43 |
| 1963 | Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50 |
| 1961 | Charles Coburn, actor (Heaven Can Wait, Idiot's Delight), dies at 84 |
| 1956 | Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1953 | Dimiter Nenov, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1952 | Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pirates and Dodgers), drowns |
| 1949 | Arthur Fielder, England cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies |
| 1944 | Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies |
| 1943 | A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58 |
| 1939 | Wilhelm Bolsche, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1935 | Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62 |
| 1934 | Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79 |
| 1932 | Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77 |
| 1930 | William H Taft, 27th U.S. President (1909-13), dies |
| 1928 | Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 |
| 1919 | Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr. Rung), dies |
| 1917 | Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czechoslovakia, dies |
| 1914 | Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 |
| 1914 | Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide |
| 1910 | Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57 |
| 1904 | Kate Fanny Loder, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1903 | Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87 |
| 1879 | John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48 |
| 1879 | John B. Hood, American Soldier |
| 1844 | Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies |
| 1826 | Theodor Zwetler, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1809 | Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies |
| 1808 | Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1745 | Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1666 | Benedictus Carpzovius, Benedikt Carpzov, German lawyer, dies |
| 1580 | Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies |
| 1529 | Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1483 | Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60 |
| 1482 | Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies |
| 1181 | Alexander III, Orlando Bandinelli, Italian Pope (1159-81), dies |
| 526 | Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten |
| 524 | Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29 |
