| 2001 | Dick Schaap, sportscaster/writer, Flashing Before My Eyes, dies at 67 |
| 2001 | Foster Brooks, comic, ", ""professional lush"", ", dies at 89 |
| 2000 | Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63 |
| 1997 | Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 |
| 1995 | Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37 |
| 1993 | Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 |
| 1992 | Albert King, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71 |
| 1992 | Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Stella Adler, U.S. actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94 |
| 1989 | Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed |
| 1989 | Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1989 | Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed |
| 1988 | Bob Steele, Robert Bradbury, dies after short illness at 60 |
| 1988 | Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 |
| 1987 | Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies |
| 1983 | Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Paul de Man, Belgian Critic |
| 1980 | Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 |
| 1975 | William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 |
| 1972 | Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 |
| 1967 | Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 |
| 1967 | Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64 |
| 1965 | Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Carl Van Vechten, American Writer |
| 1958 | H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83 |
| 1958 | Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher and writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74 |
| 1957 | Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1956 | Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79 |
| 1955 | Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 |
| 1948 | Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged |
| 1945 | George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60 |
| 1945 | George S. Patton, American Soldier |
| 1942 | Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63 |
| 1940 | F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
| 1937 | Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 |
| 1937 | Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician |
| 1935 | Kurt Tucholsky, Germany journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45 |
| 1933 | Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 |
| 1931 | John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at 45 |
| 1928 | Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 |
| 1921 | P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 |
| 1921 | P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician |
| 1920 | Claude Tozer, cricketer, dashing NSW batsman, shot to death |
| 1907 | Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1890 | Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73 |
| 1889 | Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61 |
| 1864 | William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1859 | Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66 |
| 1820 | Charles-Franeois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1765 | Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor, dies at 70 |
| 1755 | Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1736 | Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 |
| 1734 | Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1674 | Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66 |
| 1597 | Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76 |
| 1579 | Juan de Juanes, Vicente J Maeip, Spanish relig painter, dies at 56 |
| 1429 | Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death |
| 1375 | Boccaccio, writer, dies |
| 1375 | Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies |
| 1308 | Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies |
| 918 | Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies |
