| 2007 | Elizabeth Hardwick, dies at 91, in New York City |
| 2004 | Larry Buchanan, American Director |
| 2000 | Gail Fisher, actress, Mannix, dies at 65 |
| 1999 | Joey Adams, American Comedian |
| 1996 | Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Roxie Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies |
| 1995 | Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist |
| 1994 | Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44 |
| 1992 | Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43 |
| 1992 | Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die |
| 1990 | Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90 |
| 1990 | Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82 |
| 1986 | Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer |
| 1986 | Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59 |
| 1985 | Philip Larkin, hermit of Hull, English poet, dies at 63 |
| 1983 | Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79 |
| 1982 | David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41 |
| 1982 | Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49 |
| 1981 | Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1981 | Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot, Governor of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, U.S. architect (UN), dies at 86 |
| 1980 | Romain Gary, Russian Novelist |
| 1979 | Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1976 | Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59 |
| 1976 | William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65 |
| 1974 | Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies |
| 1972 | Jose Limon, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64 |
| 1970 | Dora Paulen, German/Dutch cabaretiere, dies at about 72 |
| 1969 | Kliment J Voroshilov, president U.S.S.R. (1953-60), dies |
| 1967 | Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Francis Joseph Spellman, American Clergyman |
| 1966 | Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85 |
| 1964 | Roger Bissiere, French painter, dies at 76 |
| 1963 | Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39 |
| 1957 | Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73 |
| 1953 | Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75 |
| 1950 | Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1944 | Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67 |
| 1944 | JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies |
| 1943 | Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies |
| 1935 | Albert Kessel, 1st to die in California gas chamber |
| 1933 | Josef Gruber, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1931 | Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1925 | Julio Garreta, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1923 | Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1919 | Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke and steel operation, dies at 69 |
| 1918 | Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38 |
| 1918 | Edmond Rostand, French Poet |
| 1916 | Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1915 | Jan Malat, composer, teacher, dies at 72 |
| 1903 | Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1888 | Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1888 | Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47 |
| 1880 | Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1864 | Archibald Gracie, Jr., Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31 |
| 1860 | Ferdinand Christian Baur, German Theologian |
| 1859 | John Brown, U.S. abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59 |
| 1845 | Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1831 | Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1828 | Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39 |
| 1814 | Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74 |
| 1774 | Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54 |
| 1763 | Carl August Thielo, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1723 | Philip, French duke of Orleans, regent 1715 - 1723, Prime Minister 1723, dies |
| 1719 | Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85 |
| 1592 | Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies at 46 |
| 1515 | Gonzalo de Cordoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies |
| 1463 | Albrecht VI, archduke of Habsburg, dies |
| 537 | Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies |
