| 2005 | John H. Johnson, American Businessman |
| 2004 | Fay Wray, actress, the original King Kong, dies at 96 |
| 2004 | "Robert ""Gypsy Boots"" Bootzin", actor/gadfly, The Gypsy in Me, dies at 89 |
| 1999 | Harry Walker, American Athlete |
| 1997 | Duncan Swift, jazz pianist, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | George Richard Samways, children's writer, dies at 101 |
| 1996 | Herbert Huncke, writer, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Julian Stryjkowski, writer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Henriette Santer, clinical psychologist, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94 |
| 1994 | Robin Cavendish, disabled Campaigner, dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50 |
| 1993 | Marian Anderson, American Musician |
| 1992 | Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies |
| 1992 | Alison L Gertz, U.S. aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids |
| 1992 | Arthur Lang, U.S. boxer/businessman, dies at 115 |
| 1992 | Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies |
| 1992 | Lou Krugman, actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1992 | Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies |
| 1991 | Brad Davis, actor (Sybil, Midnight Express), dies of AIDS at 41 |
| 1991 | James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61 |
| 1991 | John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies |
| 1991 | Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies |
| 1991 | James Irwin, American Astronaut |
| 1988 | Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), dies at 85 |
| 1985 | Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78 |
| 1984 | Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62 |
| 1984 | Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist |
| 1982 | Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies |
| 1982 | Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62 |
| 1982 | Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies |
| 1980 | Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63 |
| 1980 | Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70 |
| 1976 | John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered |
| 1975 | Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies of a stroke at 46 |
| 1975 | Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, U.S., jazz musician, Black Messiah, dies at 46 from a stroke |
| 1974 | Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 |
| 1969 | Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26 |
| 1967 | Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63 |
| 1965 | Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 |
| 1963 | Sandor Jemnitz, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1961 | Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58 |
| 1961 | Franc N D Buchman, U.S. theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83 |
| 1960 | Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61 |
| 1954 | Gino Tagliapietra, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1950 | Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies |
| 1950 | Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1944 | Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged |
| 1934 | Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies |
| 1929 | Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois |
| 1928 | Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies |
| 1921 | Juhani Aho, Fins journalist and writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 |
| 1918 | Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38 |
| 1908 | Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 |
| 1902 | Jean Y. Y. Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies |
| 1897 | Antonio Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister of Spain, murdered at 69 |
| 1897 | Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 |
| 1888 | Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1834 | Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1827 | George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 |
| 1816 | Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1788 | Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 |
| 1759 | Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 |
| 1705 | Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded |
| 1700 | Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1694 | Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 |
| 1685 | Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75 |
| 1616 | Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68 |
| 1506 | Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 |
| 1471 | Thomas Kempis, Thomas Hammerken von Kempen, monk, dies at 91 |
| 869 | Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies |
| 117 | Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies |
