| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto, dies in Punjab, Pakistan, assassinated by Al-Quaeda, at 54 |
| 2003 | Alan Bates, actor, King of Hearts, dies at 69 |
| 2001 | Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator |
| 1999 | Dick Peabody, actor, Combat, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Leonard Goldenson, TV executive, dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Ewart G. Abner, Jr., president (Motown Records), dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39 |
| 1995 | Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Shura Cherkassky, pianist, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Blandine Ebinger, Loeser, actress (Madchen in Uniform), dies at 94 |
| 1993 | Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 |
| 1992 | Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75 |
| 1992 | Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies |
| 1992 | Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| 1991 | Edward M Love, choreographer/dancer, dies of AIDS at 43 |
| 1991 | John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49 |
| 1991 | W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies |
| 1988 | Fox Harris, actor (Alienator, Warlords, Sid and Nancy), dies |
| 1988 | Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59 |
| 1987 | Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91 |
| 1987 | Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing |
| 1986 | Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24 |
| 1986 | Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Dian Fossey, U.S. naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda |
| 1983 | Walter Scott, rocker, dies |
| 1982 | John Leonard Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1981 | Hoagy Carmichael, U.S. actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan (1979), murdered |
| 1978 | Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62 |
| 1978 | Chris Bell, rock guitarist (Big Star), dies at 27 in car crash |
| 1978 | Houari Boumediene, Algerian president, dies after 40 days in a coma at 53 |
| 1974 | Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Raymond Glenn, actor (Raisin in the Sun, Carmen Jones), dies at 76 |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75 |
| 1972 | Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Politician |
| 1959 | Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70 |
| 1957 | Alan Bridge, actor (Hail the Conquering Hero), dies at 66 |
| 1952 | Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 |
| 1944 | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1944 | Amy Marcy Beach, American Musician |
| 1938 | Emile Vandervelde, Belgian Secretary of State (BWP), dies at 72 |
| 1938 | O Mandelstam, writer, dies |
| 1936 | Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70 |
| 1931 | Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1931 | Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1930 | William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63 |
| 1925 | Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (Assault!), dies at 44 |
| 1925 | Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet |
| 1924 | William Archer, Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess), dies at 68 |
| 1919 | Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1919 | Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier (1905-08), dies at 68 |
| 1916 | Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1900 | William G Armstrong, of Cragside, British const (hydr crane), dies at 90 |
| 1880 | Alessandro Nini, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1877 | Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56 |
| 1858 | Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1853 | William Jay, English Clergyman |
| 1836 | Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43 |
| 1805 | Belle van Zuylen, Netherlands/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies at 65 |
| 1800 | Hugh Blair, Scottish Theologian |
| 1641 | Francois van d'Aerssen, ruler of Sommelsdijk/diplomat, dies at 69 |
| 1631 | John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47 |
| 1603 | Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68 |
| 1595 | Pietro Pontio, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1590 | Emmanuel-Philibert of Lalaing, marquis of Renty, dies at 33 |
| 1065 | Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castilie, dies |
| 975 | Balderik, bishop of Utrecht (918-75), dies |
| 418 | Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies |
