| 2008 | Conor Cruise O'Brien, dies at 91, in his home overlooking Dublin Bay |
| 2008 | W. Mark Felt, dies in his sleep, in Santa Rosa, California, at 95 |
| 2000 | Barney McNulty, production assistant, invented cue cards, dies at 77 |
| 2000 | Kirsty MacColl, singer/songwriter, Tropical Brainstorm, dies at 41 |
| 1999 | Robert Bresson, French Director |
| 1997 | Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33 |
| 1996 | Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Georgio Fini, restaurateur, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Konrad Zuse, German Inventor |
| 1994 | Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Lilia Skala, Austrian/US actress (Ship of Fools, Caprice), dies at 98 |
| 1994 | Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies of prostate cancer at 74 |
| 1992 | Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Mark Goodson, TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies |
| 1991 | June Storey, actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1990 | Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at 87 |
| 1990 | Paul Tortelier, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies |
| 1982 | Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Netherlands cellist, dies at 70 |
| 1981 | Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister Albania 1954 - 1981, American spy, commits suicide |
| 1980 | Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister 1964 - 1980, suffers heart attack at 76 |
| 1977 | Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80 |
| 1977 | Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92 |
| 1973 | Giulio Cesare Brero, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1971 | Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 |
| 1971 | Bobby Jones, Jr., PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930), dies at 69 |
| 1971 | Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45 |
| 1966 | Gene Gauntier, dies in Cuernavaca Mexico |
| 1963 | Winifried P I Zillig, German composer and conductor (Opfer), dies at 58 |
| 1959 | Dorothy L Sayers, writer, dies at 66 |
| 1948 | Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers |
| 1939 | Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51 |
| 1935 | Juan V Gomez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies |
| 1932 | Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82 |
| 1931 | John T "Legs" Diamond, U.S. gangster, murdered at 35 |
| 1928 | Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1919 | Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1919 | John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 |
| 1918 | Henryk Jarecki, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1915 | Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75 |
| 1911 | Alberto Randegger, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1899 | John William Glover, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1897 | Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 |
| 1892 | Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 |
| 1881 | George Edmund Street, English Architect |
| 1869 | Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1865 | Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1862 | Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect and Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35 |
| 1858 | Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1841 | Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1839 | Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1835 | Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1831 | Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 |
| 1829 | Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 |
| 1803 | Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 |
| 1779 | Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68 |
| 1751 | Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62 |
| 1737 | Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93 |
| 1732 | Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1710 | Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62 |
| 1651 | Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54 |
| 1638 | Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies |
| 1633 | Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62 |
| 1597 | Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 |
| 1577 | Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32 |
| 1565 | Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 |
| 1505 | John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed |
| 1290 | Magnus I Ladulas, Barn Bolt, king of Sweden (1277-90), dies |
| 468 | Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita |
