| 2004 | Gary Webb, American Journalist |
| 2002 | Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76 |
| 2000 | Marie Windsor, actress, dies at 80 |
| 1999 | Shirley Hemphill, actress, What's Happening!, dies at 52 |
| 1999 | Franjo Tudjman, Croatian Statesman |
| 1997 | Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97 |
| 1996 | Faron Young, country singer and actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 64 |
| 1996 | John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28 |
| 1995 | Gillian Rose, philosopher and writer, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic/poet, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Garnett Silk, vocalist, dies at 28 |
| 1994 | George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies |
| 1994 | Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor, dies at 92 |
| 1993 | Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 |
| 1992 | Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies |
| 1991 | Berenice Abbott, U.S. photographer, dies at 93 |
| 1990 | Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92 |
| 1988 | Dick Clair, comedian (Clair and McMahon, Facts of Life), dies of AIDS |
| 1988 | Richard Castellano, aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55 |
| 1987 | Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86 |
| 1986 | Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44 |
| 1986 | Susan Cabot-Roman, actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), dies |
| 1983 | Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at 74 |
| 1982 | Freeman "Amos" Gosden, U.S. radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83 |
| 1982 | Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94 |
| 1981 | John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 |
| 1979 | Ann Dvorak, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), dies at 67 |
| 1979 | Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84 |
| 1978 | Edward D Wood, Jr., director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54 |
| 1978 | Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75 |
| 1974 | Paul Richards, actor (Dr. Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50 |
| 1973 | Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Mark A Van Doren, U.S. literary (Our Lady Peace), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Jozef MLT Cals, Dutch Minister of Education/premier (1965-66), dies at 57 |
| 1969 | Franco Capuana, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1969 | Leigh Harline, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1968 | Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies at 82 |
| 1968 | Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild), dies at 65 |
| 1968 | Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53 |
| 1967 | Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash |
| 1967 | Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash |
| 1967 | Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 |
| 1967 | Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash |
| 1967 | Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash |
| 1966 | Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1965 | Henry (Dixon) Cowell, U.S. pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68 |
| 1964 | Sam Cooke, U.S., singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel at 33 |
| 1959 | Charles Jones, cricket batsman (WI in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies |
| 1959 | Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40 |
| 1958 | Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician, dies at 72 |
| 1946 | Damon Runyon, U.S. journalist and writer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 66 |
| 1946 | Walter Johnson, great pitcher for the Washington Senators, dies at 59 |
| 1939 | Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1938 | Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1936 | Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 |
| 1935 | John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78 |
| 1931 | Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 |
| 1921 | Viktor Jacobi, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1911 | Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94 |
| 1910 | Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1909 | Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies |
| 1896 | Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 |
| 1890 | Ludolf AJW Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General (Net India 1861-66), dies at 84 |
| 1889 | Anzengruber, writer, dies |
| 1889 | Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright, dies at 50 |
| 1888 | Mariano Obiols, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1877 | Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1877 | Jared Kirtland, U.S. physician/naturalist, dies |
| 1875 | Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84 |
| 1833 | Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1830 | Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies |
| 1826 | Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1805 | Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1770 | Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1749 | Gabrielle Chatelet, La belle Emilie, writer (Voltaire), dies at 42 |
| 1665 | Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies |
| 1638 | Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman), dies at 49 |
| 1626 | Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician |
| 1616 | Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74 |
| 1603 | William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, dies at 59 |
| 1595 | Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59 |
| 1572 | Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72 |
| 1524 | Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death |
| 1490 | Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90 |
| 1198 | Averroes ibn-Rusjd, Moorish philosopher, dies |
| 1041 | Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies |
| 969 | Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered |
