| 2008 | David Foster Wallace, dies in California, of suicide, at 46 |
| 2007 | Ike Turner, dies in California, of a cocaine overdose, at 76 |
| 2000 | George Montgomery, sculptor/actor, dies at 84 |
| 1999 | Joseph Heller, writer, Catch-22, dies at 76 |
| 1998 | Lord Lew Grade, producer, The Muppet Show, dies at 91 |
| 1998 | Mo Udall, born in St. Johns, Arizona, Representative-D-Arizona 1961 - 1991, died of Parkinson disease |
| 1996 | Gerald Ian Lacey, architect/town planner, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Jack Perry, businessman, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Vance Oakley Packard, writer (Hidden Perseuders), dies at 82 |
| 1995 | David Lincoln Lightbown, politician, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician, dies at 97 |
| 1995 | James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies |
| 1995 | Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister 1952, foreign minister, dies at 102 |
| 1994 | Herman H Felderhof, radio-announcer/head (NRU/NOS Radio), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Stuart Allen Roosa, astronaut (Apollo 14), dies of pancreatitis at 46 |
| 1993 | Gerard "Ge" Nabrink, Dutch anarchist/NVSH-founder, dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Jeremiah Sullivan, actor (Soldier, Double-Stop), dies of AIDS at 58 |
| 1993 | Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61 |
| 1992 | Bernard CJ Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposopher (Free College), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93 |
| 1991 | Ken Keltner, U.S. baseball player (Cleveland Indians), dies at 75 |
| 1991 | Lex Karsemeijer, Dutch tenor/choral dir (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies |
| 1988 | John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 |
| 1987 | Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62 |
| 1985 | Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road manager (Rolling Stones), dies at 47 |
| 1978 | Clifton Chenier, U.S. accordionist (Bayou Blues), dies at 53 |
| 1978 | Fay Compton, actress (Othello), dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92 |
| 1976 | Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He and She), dies at 49 |
| 1971 | David Sarnoff, U.S. TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Frank Wolff, actor (Erotic Illusion, Last Gun), suicide at 43 |
| 1971 | Jack Barnhill, Northern Ireland senator, assassinated |
| 1971 | John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47 |
| 1970 | Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82 |
| 1968 | Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies of pneumonia at 65 |
| 1965 | Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67 |
| 1962 | Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67 |
| 1961 | Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91 |
| 1959 | Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 79 |
| 1957 | Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1956 | Lorenzo Perosi, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1947 | Julio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do Mato), dies at 70 |
| 1946 | Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Abelard and Heloise), dies at 67 |
| 1939 | Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56 |
| 1937 | Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57 |
| 1933 | Theodore Moses Tobani, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1932 | Egon Richter, writer, dies |
| 1929 | Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity |
| 1927 | Heinrich Reitsch, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1926 | Jean Richepin, French poet and writer (Contes sans morale), dies at 77 |
| 1923 | Raymond Radiguet, French journalist and writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 |
| 1921 | Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies |
| 1920 | Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 |
| 1920 | Paul Lacome, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1917 | Andrew Taylor Still, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine, died at age 89 |
| 1912 | Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91 |
| 1889 | Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77 |
| 1880 | Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 |
| 1877 | Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 |
| 1872 | Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72 |
| 1843 | Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 |
| 1836 | Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1812 | John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1788 | Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1777 | Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 |
| 1772 | Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1677 | Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch Admiral (Chatham), dies in battle |
| 1600 | John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies |
| 1263 | Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies |
| 1204 | Maimonides, Moses Ben Maimon, Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 |
| 1112 | Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies |
| 884 | Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies |
