| 2008 | Sammy Baugh, dies in Texas, at 94 |
| 2004 | Tom Wesselmann, American Artist |
| 1999 | "Grover Washington, Jr", jazz musician, Aria, dies at 56 |
| 1999 | Rex Allen, actor/voice, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Irving Caesar, songwriter, dies at 101 |
| 1996 | Michael Saunders, barrister, dies at 22 |
| 1996 | Ruby Murray, singer, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Stanko Todorov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria 1971 - 1981, dies |
| 1995 | Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Frederik JW "Fried" Lowensteyn, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Janet Margolin, U.S. actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian cancer |
| 1992 | Dana Andrews, U.S. actor (Laura), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
| 1991 | John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 |
| 1990 | Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61 |
| 1990 | Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands, dies at 87 |
| 1987 | Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 |
| 1986 | Ron Kass, record co President (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer |
| 1985 | Otto Gotsche, writer, dies |
| 1982 | Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58 |
| 1982 | Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1978 | Don Ellis, American Musician |
| 1975 | Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 |
| 1975 | Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Charles G Abbot, U.S. astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101 |
| 1973 | Patrick Hadley, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1972 | Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1969 | Arturo da Costa e Silva, President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at 67 |
| 1967 | Harold Holt, Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59 |
| 1967 | [Francis] Barry Byrne, Chicago, Illinois, architect, dies at 83 |
| 1967 | Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician |
| 1966 | Gustaf Paulson, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1965 | Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 |
| 1964 | Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher |
| 1964 | Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist |
| 1962 | Thomas Mitchell, U.S., actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1961 | Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 |
| 1957 | Dorothy Sayers, Atherton Fleming, author (Whose body), dies at 64 |
| 1957 | Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author |
| 1956 | Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48 |
| 1949 | David Stanley Smith, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1948 | Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1946 | Constance [Clara] Garnett, Russian-English translator, dies at 84 |
| 1944 | Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 |
| 1944 | Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies |
| 1937 | Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72 |
| 1933 | Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81 |
| 1930 | Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1926 | Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1916 | Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated |
| 1913 | Stefano Gobatti, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1907 | Kelvin of Largs, William Thomson, Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 |
| 1899 | Frederick "Freddy" Roberts, son of British field marshal, dies in battle |
| 1893 | Levinus T Keuchenius, Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies at 71 |
| 1891 | Msiri, king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle |
| 1891 | Omer Bodson, Belgian captain, dies in battle |
| 1881 | Lewis H Morgan, U.S. ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 |
| 1870 | Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1847 | Marie Louise, French Royalty |
| 1833 | Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 |
| 1830 | Simon Bolivar, president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Colombia |
| 1829 | Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1811 | John Antes, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1811 | Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1751 | Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czechoslovakian master builder, dies at 62 |
| 1711 | Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies |
| 1679 | Don Juan, ruler of Spain, dies |
| 1651 | Wolfgang Schonsleder, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1562 | Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82 |
| 1471 | Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy, dies |
| 1273 | Rumi, Mawlana, Mawlawi, poet, theologian, wrote, the six books of the Masnavi, influenced Persian literature, dies |
| 1213 | Jean de Matha, French saint, dies at 53 |
| 1195 | Boudouin V, count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies |
| 1187 | Gregory VIII, Alberto de Morra, Italian Pope (1187), dies |
