| 2005 | William Proxmire, Senator-D-Wisconsin, 1957 - 1989, Golden Fleece Awards, died of Alzheimer's disease |
| 1997 | Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 |
| 1997 | Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99 |
| 1994 | Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies |
| 1992 | Fre [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 |
| 1991 | Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 |
| 1990 | Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies |
| 1990 | Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies |
| 1989 | Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 |
| 1984 | Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke |
| 1979 | Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 |
| 1978 | Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1974 | Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89 |
| 1973 | Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 |
| 1972 | Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation |
| 1962 | Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 |
| 1961 | William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 |
| 1953 | Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1951 | Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 |
| 1950 | Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1946 | Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 |
| 1946 | Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1944 | Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 |
| 1943 | Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri |
| 1943 | Fats Waller, American Musician |
| 1934 | Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 |
| 1909 | Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1901 | Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1896 | John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 |
| 1892 | Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1890 | Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US |
| 1889 | Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies at 73 |
| 1880 | Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 |
| 1861 | Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1839 | Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 |
| 1831 | Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba/Curaeao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 |
| 1822 | Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1817 | Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies |
| 1816 | Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1792 | Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1779 | Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1715 | George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 |
| 1712 | Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 |
| 1699 | Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63 |
| 1688 | Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Netherlands grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54 |
| 1675 | John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 |
| 1626 | Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 |
| 1621 | Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 |
| 1598 | Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 |
| 1576 | Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 |
| 1515 | Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies |
| 1230 | Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies |
| 1025 | Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies |
