| 1997 | Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69 |
| 1997 | Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57 |
| 1997 | James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67 |
| 1997 | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Edward Leadbitter, politician, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies |
| 1996 | Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Harry McLevy, trade unionist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47 |
| 1994 | John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Julie Haydon, [Donella Donaldson], U.S. actress (Scoundrel), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Louise H "Lous" Hensen, actress (Uncle Wanja, Charlotte), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Norman Vincent Peale, Reverend, 'Power of Positive Thinking', dies at 95 |
| 1993 | Yen Chia-kan, PM/President of Taiwan (1963-72, 75-78), dies |
| 1992 | Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies |
| 1992 | Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64 |
| 1991 | Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 |
| 1987 | John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 |
| 1986 | Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75 |
| 1984 | Ian Hendry, actor (Assassin, Get Carter, Repulsion), dies at 53 |
| 1984 | Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 |
| 1982 | Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Alec Lafayette Chew Wilder, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1980 | Karl Donitz, German great admiral/Fuhrer (1945), dies at 89 |
| 1979 | Dirk Uipko Stikker, Dutch CEO (Heineken)/Secretary-General NATO, dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39 |
| 1977 | Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66 |
| 1976 | Victor Stanitsin, actor (War and Peace, Jubilee), dies at 79 |
| 1975 | Bernard Herrmann, U.S. movie composer, dies at 64 |
| 1975 | Otto AP Furst von Bismarck-Schonhausen, German diplomat, dies at 78 |
| 1974 | Tilly Losch, actress (Duel in the Sun, Good Earth), dies at 70 |
| 1972 | Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1961 | Guy de Lioncourt, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1957 | Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (sign on bay), dies at 60 |
| 1955 | Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67 |
| 1952 | Henry A "Hans" Kramers, Dutch theoretical physicist, dies at 58 |
| 1945 | Francisco Pujol, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1944 | Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1942 | Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1942 | Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists |
| 1942 | K Balmont, writer, dies at 75 |
| 1935 | Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1935 | Alban Berg, Austrian Composer |
| 1932 | Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1930 | Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 |
| 1930 | Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1914 | John Muir, American Environmentalist |
| 1909 | Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 |
| 1908 | Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1907 | Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies |
| 1904 | Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55 |
| 1898 | Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1885 | Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 |
| 1869 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55 |
| 1863 | W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52 |
| 1863 | William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist |
| 1862 | Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1823 | Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1707 | Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 |
| 1660 | Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29 |
| 1548 | Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies |
| 1541 | Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61 |
| 1524 | Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55 |
| 1453 | John Dunstable, English composer, dies |
| 1380 | John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies |
| 1069 | Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies |
