| 2002 | Josh Ryan Evans, actor, Passions, dies at 20 |
| 2000 | Sir Alec Guinness, actor, Bridge on the River Kwai, dies at 86 |
| 1998 | Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Politician |
| 1997 | Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61 |
| 1996 | Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46 |
| 1996 | Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39 |
| 1994 | Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47 |
| 1992 | Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38 |
| 1992 | Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies |
| 1991 | Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 |
| 1990 | Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies |
| 1989 | Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68 |
| 1987 | Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1985 | Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 |
| 1984 | Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 |
| 1984 | R Hagelstange, writer, dies |
| 1984 | Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58 |
| 1984 | Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72 |
| 1983 | Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66 |
| 1982 | Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72 |
| 1978 | Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79 |
| 1977 | Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87 |
| 1976 | Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88 |
| 1972 | Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71 |
| 1971 | Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Moa Martinson, writer, dies |
| 1962 | Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35 |
| 1961 | Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63 |
| 1961 | Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1949 - 1957, dies at 67 |
| 1959 | Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 |
| 1958 | Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 |
| 1957 | Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 |
| 1955 | Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42 |
| 1950 | Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73 |
| 1947 | Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies |
| 1943 | Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55 |
| 1940 | Frederick A Cook, U.S., explorer (North Pole), dies at 75 |
| 1940 | Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer |
| 1932 | Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies |
| 1931 | Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43 |
| 1916 | George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1916 | Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1910 | Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1907 | Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1901 | Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60 |
| 1900 | James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80 |
| 1895 | Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies |
| 1891 | Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73 |
| 1889 | Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80 |
| 1870 | Ethan A. Hitchcock, American Soldier |
| 1864 | Griffin A Stedman, Union-Brigadier-General (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26 |
| 1863 | Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1862 | Thomas Williams, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 47 |
| 1856 | Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1852 | Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czechoslovakian slavist/poet, dies at 53 |
| 1834 | Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 71 |
| 1830 | Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1792 | Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 |
| 1792 | Lord North, British Statesman |
| 1778 | Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22 |
| 1644 | J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61 |
| 1157 | Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies |
