| 2004 | Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69 |
| 2004 | Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 |
| 1999 | Clayton Moore, actor, The Lone Ranger, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60 |
| 1993 | Howard Caine, dies |
| 1993 | Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61 |
| 1993 | William L Shirer, writer (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Mort Greene, U.S. songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80 |
| 1991 | Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 |
| 1991 | Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure |
| 1990 | Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65 |
| 1990 | Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46 |
| 1990 | Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies |
| 1989 | Robert Wickler, dies |
| 1988 | Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 |
| 1987 | Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky, dies |
| 1986 | Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77 |
| 1984 | Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 |
| 1983 | Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 |
| 1983 | William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91 |
| 1982 | Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1981 | Allan Dwan, Canadian Director |
| 1980 | Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die |
| 1980 | Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart |
| 1978 | Harry Winston, U.S. jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82 |
| 1976 | Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 |
| 1971 | Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1970 | Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64), dies |
| 1970 | L. Mendel Rivers, Representative-D-South Carolina 1941 - 1970, dies at 65 |
| 1969 | Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Bela Schick, Hungarian/U.S. children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 |
| 1963 | A. J. Liebling, American journalist and writer, dies |
| 1963 | Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 |
| 1961 | Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 |
| 1956 | Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 |
| 1949 | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand/U.S. surgeon/athlete 1936 Olympics gold, dies at 39 |
| 1949 | W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 |
| 1949 | Hervey Allen, American Author |
| 1948 | Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, assassinated |
| 1947 | Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 |
| 1946 | Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 |
| 1945 | Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 |
| 1938 | Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 |
| 1937 | Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 |
| 1935 | Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies |
| 1923 | Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 |
| 1918 | George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies |
| 1918 | George H. White, American Politician |
| 1916 | Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81 |
| 1915 | Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 |
| 1903 | George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 |
| 1891 | Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1884 | Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56 |
| 1878 | Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1876 | Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish poet (Abels dod), dies at 67 |
| 1874 | Gerrit Smith, American Politician |
| 1870 | Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1870 | Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64 |
| 1862 | Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1860 | Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 |
| 1859 | Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies |
| 1830 | Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1793 | Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75 |
| 1779 | Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1775 | Peter A van de Parra, Governor-General of (Netherlands Indies), dies at 61 |
| 1772 | Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82 |
| 1706 | Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 |
| 1694 | Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 |
| 1673 | Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77 |
| 1622 | Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 |
| 1622 | Saint Francis de Sales, Swiss Clergyman |
| 1542 | Albert Pigge, Pighius, Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 |
| 1446 | Clemens VIII, Aegyd Munoz, Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies |
