| 2007 | Oscar Peterson, dies in Ontario, Canada, of renal failure, at 82 |
| 2001 | Jan Kott, Polish Critic |
| 2000 | Billy Barty, actor, UHF, dies at 76 |
| 2000 | Victor Borge, comedian/pianist, Victor Borge in London, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90 |
| 1997 | Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist, dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Stanley Cortez, cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Rina Ketty, singer, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | David Land, impressario, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Gabrielle Keiller, collector/golfer, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Patric Reginald Lawrence Knowles, actor (Chisum, Mutiny), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Charles Shirley, jazz arranger, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Didier Rocher, son of French cosmetic maker Yves Rocher, dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Nora Dunfree, U.S. actress (Grass Harp), dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor (High Season, Ace of Spades), dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92 |
| 1992 | Eddie Hazel, U.S. pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Knee Deep), dies at 42 |
| 1991 | Byron Q Griffith, producer/actor, dies at 73 |
| 1989 | Josef Alexander, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1985 | James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages |
| 1982 | Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at 62 |
| 1982 | Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1976 | Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937, Champagne Waltz), dies |
| 1976 | Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead |
| 1972 | Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84 |
| 1972 | Charles Atlas, Angelo Siciliano, body builder, dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator |
| 1971 | Carlo Jachino, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84 |
| 1969 | Donald Foster, actor (Scaramouche), dies after long illness at 80 |
| 1967 | Karen Verne, actress (Ships of Fools, Underground), dies at 49 |
| 1967 | Richard Flury, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Ruth Fuller Sasaki, head of 1st Zen Institute of America, dies at 75 |
| 1966 | Hv Doderer, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1966 | Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68 |
| 1964 | Arrigo Pedrollo, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1962 | George Saiko, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1962 | Luis Alberni, actor (Topaze), dies at 76 |
| 1959 | Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Lester Lonergan, Jr., actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65 |
| 1959 | Lord Irwin, ambassador to U.S. (1940-46), dies at 78 |
| 1953 | Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed |
| 1951 | Alfreds Kalnins, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1951 | Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66 |
| 1950 | Vincenzo Tommasini, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1948 | Hideki Tojo, Japan Prime Minister 1941 - 1944 and 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64 |
| 1945 | Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39 |
| 1943 | Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees de Jongen), dies at 64 |
| 1939 | Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49 |
| 1938 | Robert Herrick, U.S. writer (Chimes), dies at 70 |
| 1930 | Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71 |
| 1925 | A S C Wallis, Adele von Antal-Opzoomer, writer (Vorstengunst), dies |
| 1915 | Roland Leighton, dies at 20 |
| 1911 | Karl L Hoschna, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1908 | Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1908 | Francois A Gevaert, Belg/Dutch composer (Diable au Moulin), dies at 68 |
| 1891 | Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1818 | Philip Francis, English Politician |
| 1812 | Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1789 | Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, (school for the deaf), dies at 77 |
| 1696 | Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1688 | Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 |
| 1652 | John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 |
| 1619 | Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 |
| 1588 | Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 |
| 1569 | St. Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible |
| 1502 | Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 |
| 1236 | Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies |
| 1116 | Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies |
| 918 | Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies |
| 679 | Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered |
| 558 | Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 |
