| 2003 | Clark Kerr, American Economist |
| 1997 | Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67 |
| 1997 | Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Irving Gordon, songwriter, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Lionel Stander, actor (Max-Hart to Hart), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58 |
| 1991 | George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80 |
| 1990 | Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies |
| 1989 | Alvin Ailey, U.S. choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58 |
| 1987 | Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57 |
| 1987 | James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63 |
| 1987 | James A. Baldwin, American Author |
| 1986 | Horace Heidt, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59 |
| 1986 | [Irving] Lee Dorsey, Kid Chocolate, U.S. boxer/singer, dies at 59 |
| 1983 | Mirsky, mathematician, dies |
| 1982 | Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday |
| 1980 | Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Paul Hardy, Belgian designer, Italian Country, dies at 69 |
| 1975 | Nick Kenny, U.S. columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Stephen Gill Spottswood, U.S. bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77 |
| 1973 | David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87 |
| 1973 | David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman |
| 1972 | Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 |
| 1971 | Arthur B Springarn, U.S. NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93 |
| 1968 | Hugo Haas, actor and director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66 |
| 1960 | Ion Vasilescu, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1952 | Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92 |
| 1951 | Felix Petyrek, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1950 | Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55 |
| 1947 | Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72 |
| 1947 | Hardy, mathematician, dies |
| 1947 | Aleister Crowley, English Critic |
| 1947 | G. H. Hardy, British Mathematician |
| 1947 | Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician |
| 1945 | Harvey Bartlett Gaul, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1939 | Max Fiedler, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1935 | Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies |
| 1934 | Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad |
| 1932 | Amadeo Vives, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1926 | Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1925 | Vicente Arregui Garay, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1916 | Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58 |
| 1893 | Eduard Franck, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1892 | ? de Bruyne, Belgian sergeant in Congo, murdered |
| 1892 | Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered |
| 1887 | Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 78 |
| 1865 | Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76 |
| 1842 | Philip Spencer, 1st U.S. naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged |
| 1825 | Aleksandr I P Romanov, czar of Russia (1801-25), dies at 47 |
| 1818 | Joshua Barney, American Soldier |
| 1817 | Justin Heinrich Knechtl, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1813 | Ferdinando Bertoni, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1808 | Anton Fischer, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1797 | Oliver Wolcott, U.S. judge/signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 71 |
| 1755 | Maurice Greene, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1750 | Doppelmayr, mathematician |
| 1736 | Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36), dies at 72 |
| 1729 | Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1727 | Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1709 | A Sancta Clara, writer, dies |
| 1709 | Abraham a Santa Clara, Johann Megerle, Germ court vicar, dies at 65 |
| 1707 | Jeremiah Clarke, composer, dies |
| 1700 | Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53 |
| 1651 | Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1635 | Melchior Teschner, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1633 | Isabella of Austria, infante of Spain/governess in Holland, dies at 67 |
| 1623 | Thomas Weelkes, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1580 | Edmund Campion, English jesuit, hanged at 42 |
| 1580 | Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71 |
| 1530 | Margaretha of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51 |
| 1521 | Leo X, Giovanni de' Medici, Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45 |
| 1515 | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, el Gran Capitan, Span gen, dies at 62 |
| 1455 | Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77 |
| 1417 | Walraven I van Brederode, viceroy of Holland, dies |
| 1374 | Magnus Eriksson, king of Norway/Sweden, dies |
| 1135 | Henry I Beauclerc, king of England (1st king that could read), dies |
| 660 | Eligius/Eloy, French bishop of Tournay-Noyon/saint, dies |
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