| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
