| 2005 | Robin Cook, Scottish Politician |
| 2004 | Rick James, Singer, Super Freak, dies at 54 |
| 2004 | Donald Justice, American Poet |
| 2002 | Edsger Dijkstra, programmer, helped to vanquish the GOTO statement in programming, dies at 72 |
| 2001 | Larry Adler, harmonica player, dies at 87 |
| 2000 | Robin Day, British Journalist |
| 1999 | Andrew Keith, writer, Wing Commander, dies at 41 |
| 1996 | Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Hernan Siles Zuazo, President of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies |
| 1996 | Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67 |
| 1991 | Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68 |
| 1991 | Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris |
| 1990 | Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82 |
| 1990 | Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43 |
| 1990 | Jacques Soustelle, French ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78 |
| 1990 | Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies |
| 1990 | Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31 |
| 1989 | Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 |
| 1988 | Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47 |
| 1988 | J Skelly Wright, U.S. judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Francis Ponge, French Poet |
| 1987 | Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 |
| 1987 | Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies |
| 1986 | Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) |
| 1980 | Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66 |
| 1979 | Kurt Kasznar, actor (Commander Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 |
| 1978 | Edward Durrell Stone, U.S. architect, dies at 76 |
| 1978 | Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 |
| 1978 | Pope Paul VI, Italian Pope |
| 1976 | Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72 |
| 1970 | Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante and Arioso), dies at 58 |
| 1969 | Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65 |
| 1968 | Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 |
| 1966 | Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 |
| 1965 | Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies |
| 1965 | Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55 |
| 1965 | Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60 |
| 1965 | Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1964 | Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Captain Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71 |
| 1963 | Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1961 | Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal and archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87 |
| 1959 | Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 |
| 1938 | Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57 |
| 1937 | Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76 |
| 1937 | Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72 |
| 1935 | Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1930 | Joseph Force Crater, American Judge |
| 1928 | William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1924 | John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1914 | Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54 |
| 1904 | Eduard Hanslick, German Writer |
| 1900 | Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 |
| 1895 | George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1890 | John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) |
| 1886 | Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 |
| 1867 | Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1862 | Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71 |
| 1853 | Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1848 | Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 |
| 1821 | Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1820 | Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1820 | M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies |
| 1816 | Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1799 | Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1784 | Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1783 | Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 |
| 1775 | Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1746 | Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies |
| 1727 | Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61 |
| 1718 | Jacob F Muller, Sjako/Jaco, German/Netherlands crowd leader, beheaded at 28 |
| 1686 | Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1666 | Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43 |
| 1661 | Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies |
| 1660 | Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61 |
| 1637 | Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65 |
| 1637 | Ben Jonson, English Poet |
| 1623 | Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies |
| 1548 | Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies |
| 1458 | Callistus III, Alfonso the Borja, Pope (1455-58), dies at 79 |
| 1272 | Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies |
| 1221 | Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) |
| 1195 | Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies |
| 966 | Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963) |
| 523 | Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies |
| 258 | Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded |
