| 2008 | Bernie Mac, dies in Chicago, of complications of pneumonia, at 50 |
| 2004 | David Raksin, composer, Laura, dies at 92 |
| 2003 | Gregory Hines, dancer/actor, White Nights, dies at 57 |
| 2000 | John Harsanyi, American Educator |
| 1996 | James Whitman McLamore, businessman, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion Designer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Frank Whittle, English Inventor |
| 1995 | Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53 |
| 1995 | John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29 |
| 1995 | Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Christopher Todd, Todd Wangberg, dies of AIDS at 30 |
| 1992 | Jan van Baal, antropologist and Governor of Dutch New-Guinea, dies |
| 1992 | Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies |
| 1992 | Thomas J McIntyre, Sen-New Hampshire, 1963 - 1979, dies at 77 |
| 1991 | Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies |
| 1990 | Dorothy Appleby, actress (Small Town Boy, Paradise Express), dies |
| 1988 | Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55 |
| 1986 | Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77 |
| 1982 | Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies |
| 1980 | Elliott Nugent, actor (Romance), dies |
| 1980 | Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41 |
| 1979 | Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64 |
| 1979 | Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | James G Cozzens, U.S. writer (Guard of Honor, Pulitzer), dies at 74 |
| 1978 | Johan Daisne, Thiery, Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies at 66 |
| 1977 | Edward Chapman, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt), dies at 75 |
| 1977 | George Kenney, American Soldier |
| 1976 | Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Dimitri D Shostakovich, composer (Sun Over Motherland), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 46 |
| 1975 | Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer |
| 1973 | Charlie Daniels, U.S. swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08), dies at 88 |
| 1972 | Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53 |
| 1972 | Richard Ellsasser, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1969 | Abigail Folger, U.S., coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered |
| 1969 | George Preston Marshall, NFL president for the Washington Redskins, dies at 72 |
| 1969 | Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies |
| 1969 | Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), killed by Manson's gang at 26 |
| 1969 | Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered |
| 1967 | Anton Walbrook, actor (Laura, I Accuse), dies of heart attack at 66 |
| 1967 | Jaromir Weinberger, Czechoslovakian/US composer (Czechoslovakian Rhapsody), dies |
| 1967 | Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34 |
| 1966 | Gosta Nystroem, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1965 | Creighton Hale, silent film actor (Cat and Canary), dies at 83 |
| 1962 | Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Herman Hesse, German Author |
| 1961 | Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75 |
| 1959 | Emil Frantisek Burian, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1958 | Felipe Boero, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1955 | Marion Eugene Bauer, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1949 | Harry Davenport, actor (Cowboy and Lady, Enchanted Forest), dies at 83 |
| 1949 | Edward Thorndike, American Psychologist |
| 1944 | Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal, hanged at 62 |
| 1942 | Edith Stein, German philosopher, dies |
| 1936 | Lincoln Steffens, American Journalist |
| 1929 | Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71 |
| 1928 | Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71 |
| 1924 | Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66 |
| 1919 | Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85 |
| 1919 | Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62 |
| 1919 | Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer |
| 1915 | Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle |
| 1904 | Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59 |
| 1896 | Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48 |
| 1892 | Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies |
| 1888 | Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 |
| 1888 | Isaac Strauss, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1862 | Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46 |
| 1854 | Frederik Augustus II, king of Saxon (1836-54), dies at 57 |
| 1848 | Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies |
| 1835 | Claus Nielsen Schali, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1806 | Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia Christian, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1763 | John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 |
| 1738 | Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies |
| 1727 | Johann Philipp Treiber, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1710 | Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1672 | Jose Ximenez, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1668 | Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64 |
| 1652 | John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 |
| 1634 | Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies |
| 1613 | Giovanni Righi, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1612 | Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies |
| 1516 | Jeroen Bosch, painter (Garden of the Lusten), dies at 66 |
| 1420 | Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies |
| 1048 | Damasius II, Poppo, Pope (1047-48), dies |
| 803 | Irene, Byzantine empress/wife of emperor Leo IV, dies |
| 378 | Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50 |
| 117 | Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117) |
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