| 2004 | Renata Tebaldi, opera singer, dies at 82 |
| 2003 | Hope Lange, actress, movie version of Peyton Place, dies at 70 |
| 2000 | Robert Buck, rock guitarist/songwriter, ", 10,000 Maniacs, ", dies at 42 |
| 2000 | John Lindsay, American Politician |
| 1999 | Desmond Llewelyn, actor, Q in many James Bond movies, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 |
| 1997 | Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Ronald Howard, actor (Hunting Party, Koroshi), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39 |
| 1993 | Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47 |
| 1993 | Antoon Veerman, Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education 1973 - 1975, dies at 77 |
| 1993 | Michael Clarke, drummer (Byrds), dies of liver failure at 49 |
| 1991 | Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Paul Maxwell, actor (City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70 |
| 1990 | Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71 |
| 1990 | Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher |
| 1989 | Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Virginia C. Andrews, American Author |
| 1982 | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71 |
| 1982 | Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1979 | Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian |
| 1977 | Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 |
| 1968 | Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor, dies at 78 |
| 1966 | Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 |
| 1959 | Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117 |
| 1957 | John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56 |
| 1953 | Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85 |
| 1953 | Rudolf Leonhard, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51 |
| 1945 | John Amery, British Politician |
| 1941 | L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle |
| 1939 | Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer (Lucifer, Death and Devil), dies at 70 |
| 1939 | Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57 |
| 1925 | Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1915 | Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 |
| 1914 | Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 |
| 1911 | John Bigelow, American Lawyer |
| 1867 | Jean-Georges Kastner, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1851 | J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam and Speed), dies at 76 |
| 1851 | J. M. W. Turner, English Artist |
| 1848 | Adam FJA van Duyn, governor of South Holland, dies at 77 |
| 1848 | Emily Bronte, English Novelist |
| 1823 | Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1815 | Michel Woldemar, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1815 | Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1810 | Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1804 | Mary Bright, British Prime Minister Rockingham, dies |
| 1800 | Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1798 | Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62 |
| 1749 | Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1741 | Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies |
| 1614 | Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1370 | Urban V, Guillaume de Grimoard, 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies |
| 401 | Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies |
