| 2004 | Johnny Oates, American Athlete |
| 2001 | Harvey Martin, American Athlete |
| 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 |
| 1959 | William Cameron Forbes, American Diplomat |
| 1957 | Norma Talmadge, U.S. actress (sign on bay), dies at 60 |
| 1955 | Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67 |
| 1955 | Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany |
| 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 |
| 1889 | Charles Mackay, poet, writer, journalist, songwriter, wrote for the Morning Chronicle, Illustrated London News, wrote book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', 1841, wrote popular song 'Cheer, Boys, Cheer', dies |
| 1885 | Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 |
| 1869 | Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War 1861 - 1865, dies at 55 |
| 1869 | Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer |
| 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 |
