| 2008 | Adrian Mitchell, dies of pneumonia, at 76 |
| 2002 | George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 |
| 1999 | Hank Snow, Canadian Musician |
| 1998 | Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Betty Crocker, dies at 93 |
| 1997 | Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 |
| 1997 | Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies |
| 1996 | Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 |
| 1995 | John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State 1961 - 1969, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | David Dean Rusk, American Politician |
| 1993 | Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74 |
| 1993 | W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 |
| 1991 | Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies |
| 1991 | Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies |
| 1991 | Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Stephen Birnbaum, U.S. tourism writer, dies at 54 |
| 1991 | Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1991 | Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1989 | Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 |
| 1984 | Stanley Milgram, American Psychologist |
| 1983 | Bill Brandt, British Photographer |
| 1983 | Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida |
| 1982 | Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95 |
| 1976 | Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Richard J. Daley, American Politician |
| 1975 | Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 |
| 1973 | Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37 |
| 1973 | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain 1973, assassinated by ETA |
| 1972 | Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Roy Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78 |
| 1968 | John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 |
| 1968 | Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 |
| 1965 | Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 |
| 1963 | Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1962 | Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1961 | Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57 |
| 1954 | Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1954 | James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 |
| 1948 | C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85 |
| 1947 | St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70 |
| 1942 | Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63 |
| 1939 | Hans Langsdorff, German Captain (Graaf Spee), commits suicide |
| 1937 | Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 |
| 1936 | Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid |
| 1929 | Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 |
| 1916 | Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1916 | William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1909 | Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1903 | Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1896 | Jose Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent, dies |
| 1876 | Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US |
| 1875 | Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 |
| 1821 | Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1819 | Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1815 | Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 |
| 1812 | Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis and Clark, dies |
| 1803 | Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman |
| 1799 | David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1798 | Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 |
| 1793 | Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1783 | Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 |
| 1749 | Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies |
| 1738 | Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1679 | Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 |
| 1676 | John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 |
| 1632 | Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed |
| 1590 | Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80 |
| 1355 | Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies |
| 1073 | Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies |
| 910 | Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies |
| 69 | Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine and 7th emperor, murdered |
