| 2007 | Lee Hazlewood, dies in Henderson, Nevada, of renal cancer, at 78 |
| 2005 | Little Milton, American Musician |
| 2001 | Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64 |
| 2000 | Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist |
| 1999 | Victor Mature, actor, Samson and Delilah, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122 |
| 1996 | Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies |
| 1994 | Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies |
| 1993 | Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64 |
| 1992 | Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93 |
| 1992 | Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer |
| 1991 | Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80 |
| 1987 | Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56 |
| 1985 | Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1984 | Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack |
| 1984 | Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure |
| 1984 | Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema |
| 1981 | Melvyn Douglas, Hesselberg, actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80 |
| 1977 | Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92 |
| 1976 | Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher |
| 1975 | John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57 |
| 1973 | Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68 |
| 1942 | Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1940 | Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies |
| 1938 | L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73 |
| 1938 | Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49 |
| 1938 | Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70 |
| 1936 | Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1931 | Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies |
| 1930 | Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61 |
| 1927 | John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 |
| 1925 | Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies |
| 1922 | Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40 |
| 1920 | Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1915 | Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68 |
| 1904 | Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1892 | Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?) |
| 1892 | Ernestine Rose, Activist |
| 1891 | George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41 |
| 1889 | Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1875 | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 |
| 1875 | Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author |
| 1856 | Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1850 | Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1821 | William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 86 |
| 1712 | Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1708 | Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1639 | Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 |
| 1633 | George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 |
| 1598 | William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 |
| 1584 | John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 |
| 1578 | 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle |
| 1578 | Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24 |
| 1566 | Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies |
| 1526 | Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies |
| 1476 | Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded |
| 1430 | Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 |
| 1306 | Vaclav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered |
| 1265 | Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle |
| 1204 | Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered |
| 1060 | Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52 |