| 1998 | Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80 |
| 1998 | Richard Paul, actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, dies at 58 |
| 1997 | Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39 |
| 1997 | Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6 |
| 1996 | Rupert John, Governor-General of Grenadines (1970-76), dies |
| 1995 | Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101 |
| 1994 | Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Garrison H Davidson, U.S. Lieutenant-general commandant (West Point), dies |
| 1992 | Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies |
| 1991 | Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90 |
| 1991 | Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Cesar), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45 |
| 1990 | Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77 |
| 1989 | Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies |
| 1989 | Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61 |
| 1989 | Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed |
| 1989 | Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed |
| 1989 | Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angelique), dies |
| 1989 | Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51 |
| 1985 | George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90 |
| 1980 | Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80 |
| 1980 | Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43 |
| 1980 | Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered |
| 1979 | Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70 |
| 1979 | Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64 |
| 1977 | Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88 |
| 1976 | Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58 |
| 1975 | Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94 |
| 1973 | Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923 - 1965, dies at 89 |
| 1971 | Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74 |
| 1963 | Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1961 | Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies |
| 1957 | Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87 |
| 1956 | Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1954 | Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25 |
| 1954 | Liberty Hyde Bailey, U.S. botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96 |
| 1954 | Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1951 | Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb |
| 1950 | Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47 |
| 1946 | W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67 |
| 1946 | W. C. Fields, American Comedian |
| 1943 | Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62 |
| 1943 | Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1942 | Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1940 | Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42 |
| 1938 | Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48 |
| 1936 | Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1930 | Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1927 | Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 |
| 1926 | Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47 |
| 1925 | Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30 |
| 1922 | Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1921 | Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1921 | Korolenko, writer, dies |
| 1904 | Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1903 | Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72 |
| 1895 | Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32 |
| 1883 | Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1878 | Anna Claypoole Peale, U.S. painter of miniatures, dies |
| 1868 | Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies |
| 1848 | Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1842 | Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1824 | Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60 |
| 1788 | John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40 |
| 1765 | Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1761 | Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51 |
| 1683 | Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed |
| 1530 | Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies |
| 1513 | Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 |
| 1249 | Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies |
| 1156 | Peter Venerabilis, French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61 |
| 820 | Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered |
| 795 | Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies |
