| 2005 | Kerry Packer, Australian Businessman |
| 2004 | Reggie White, football player, dies at 43 |
| 2002 | Herb Ritts, photographer, dies at 50 |
| 2001 | Nigel Hawthorne, actor, The Madness of King George, dies at 72 |
| 2000 | Jason Robards, actor, All the President's Men, dies at 78 |
| 2000 | Leo Gordon, actor/writer, War and Remembrance, dies at 78 |
| 1999 | Curtis Mayfield, composer/singer, People Get Ready, dies at 57 |
| 1997 | John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Netherlands welfare worker, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies |
| 1994 | Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies |
| 1994 | Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Constance Carpenter, actress (2 Worlds), dies of stroke at 87 |
| 1992 | John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies |
| 1992 | Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80 |
| 1991 | Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70 |
| 1991 | Sam Cresson, dies at 73 |
| 1989 | Lennox Berkeley, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1989 | Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies |
| 1988 | John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90 |
| 1986 | Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84 |
| 1985 | Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered at 53 |
| 1977 | Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81 |
| 1977 | Ivan Rezak, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1974 | Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Knudage Riisager, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1973 | Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at 69 |
| 1973 | William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1972 | Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. President (1945-53), dies in Kansas City, Missouri at 88 |
| 1972 | Harry S. Truman, American President |
| 1971 | Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57 |
| 1969 | Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 |
| 1968 | Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, American Photographer |
| 1968 | Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian |
| 1966 | Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 |
| 1966 | Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91 |
| 1966 | Noel Gallon, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1965 | Anthonie Donker, Dutch, literary, dies at 63 |
| 1963 | "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies |
| 1960 | Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at 54 |
| 1958 | Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday |
| 1957 | Artur Malawski, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1956 | Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss), dies at 74 |
| 1952 | Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 |
| 1950 | Emile Enthoven, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1950 | James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at 68 |
| 1942 | Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at 24 |
| 1937 | Ivor Gurney, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1933 | Lunatscharski, writer, dies |
| 1931 | Melvil Dewey, American Inventor |
| 1930 | Kin Hubbard, American Journalist |
| 1918 | Bertram Luard-Selby, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1917 | Louise J Gautier, French poet/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71 |
| 1916 | Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1909 | Frederic Remington, American Artist |
| 1890 | Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 |
| 1887 | Jules Francois Blasini, Curaeaos pianist/composer, dies at 40 |
| 1886 | John A. Logan, American Soldier |
| 1879 | Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille, dies |
| 1866 | Samuel Ryan Curtis, Union general-major, dies at 49 |
| 1862 | 38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato |
| 1861 | Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at 52 |
| 1837 | Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 |
| 1836 | Hans Georg Nageli, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1827 | Jan David Holland, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1797 | John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 |
| 1776 | Johann Gottlieb Rall, Hessian colonel/mercenary, dies in battle |
| 1771 | Claude A Helvetius, French encyclopedist (L'esprit), dies at 56 |
| 1740 | Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies |
| 1736 | Antonio Caldara, composer, dies |
| 1679 | John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53 |
| 1676 | Domenicus van Tol, Dutch painter, dies |
| 1658 | Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at 78 |
| 1627 | Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies |
| 1624 | Simon Marius, astronomer, dies in Bavaria at 54 |
| 1574 | Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50 |
| 1530 | Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 |
| 1476 | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, duke of Milan, murdered |
| 267 | Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies |
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