| 2003 | William V. Roth, Jr., Representative-R-Delaware 1967 - 1971, Senator-R-Delaware 1971 - 2001 |
| 1997 | Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Cao Yu, playwright, dramatist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Mae Barnes, singer, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Evangeline Bruce, hostess, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Nancy LaMott, singer, dies at 43 |
| 1994 | Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France 1952 - 1953, dies |
| 1994 | Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Norman Beaton, actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at 60 |
| 1994 | Glenn M. Anderson, Representative-D-California 1969 - 1993 |
| 1993 | Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestral leader (duivelswiel), dies |
| 1991 | Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Alice Marble, California, tennis star, dies at 77 |
| 1990 | Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at 69 |
| 1986 | Heather Angel, actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77 |
| 1983 | Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit), dies at 60 |
| 1983 | Leora Dana, actress (Sylvie Kosloff-Another World), dies |
| 1983 | Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 |
| 1981 | Cornelius Cardew, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1981 | Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73 |
| 1979 | Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66 |
| 1976 | Eduard Claudius, writer, dies |
| 1975 | Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Hendrik Kruls, Dutch general/chief military authority 1944 - 1946, dies at 73 |
| 1974 | Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66 |
| 1971 | Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88 |
| 1969 | Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83 |
| 1968 | Siegfried Reda, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1966 | Charles Watts, actor (Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer |
| 1963 | Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79 |
| 1961 | Grandma [Anna M] Moses, U.S. painter, dies at 101 |
| 1961 | Lord Acton, John Dalberg-Acton, English historian and MP, dies |
| 1958 | Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed |
| 1958 | Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed |
| 1958 | Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed |
| 1958 | Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70 |
| 1951 | Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at 73 |
| 1945 | Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide |
| 1945 | Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1944 | Lupe Velez, actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34 |
| 1944 | Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78 |
| 1942 | Eleanor Everest Freer, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1940 | Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies |
| 1929 | Knut Algot Hakanson, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1924 | Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74 |
| 1919 | Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1909 | Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 |
| 1898 | George Frederick Bristow, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1894 | Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 |
| 1881 | August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43 |
| 1872 | Helena Beeloo, Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut |
| 1872 | W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate, Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut |
| 1863 | Friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50 |
| 1862 | Conrad Feger Jackson, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 49 |
| 1862 | Maxcy Gregg, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 |
| 1862 | Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 39 |
| 1814 | Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79 |
| 1812 | Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1793 | Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1784 | Samuel Johnson, English Author |
| 1774 | Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 |
| 1769 | C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 |
| 1738 | Gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1729 | Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53 |
| 1693 | Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies |
| 1693 | Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82 |
| 1672 | Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 |
| 1622 | Jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1603 | Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 |
| 1574 | Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50 |
| 1565 | Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 |
| 1557 | Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies |
| 1521 | Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52 |
| 1404 | Albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74 |
| 1250 | Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 |
| 1204 | Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 |
| 1126 | Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies |
| 1124 | Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies |
| 1048 | Al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74 |
| 838 | Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies |
