| 2003 | Earl Hindman, voice with hat, Home Improvement, dies at 61 |
| 1997 | Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Alma Birk, journalist/politician, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Mireille Hartuch, singer/songwriter, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Peggy (Margaret McCrorie) Herbison, politician, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Louise Chaplin, actress, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Eugene Tanner, Jr., singer, dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), dies at 68 |
| 1992 | LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Vivienne Segal, U.S. actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies at 95 |
| 1991 | Julia McCarthy, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1986 | Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 |
| 1986 | John Antill, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, Prime Minister of Great Britain 1957 - 1963, dies at 92 |
| 1986 | Harold MacMillan, English Politician |
| 1984 | Leo Robin, lyricist, dies of heart failure at 84 |
| 1982 | Sol C Siegel, U.S. film producer (High Society), dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41 |
| 1980 | Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Tim Hardin, U.S. singer (Bird on a Wire), dies of a drug overdose at 39 |
| 1976 | Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter, 2 Silver Medals 1976 Olympics, dies at 22 |
| 1972 | Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1972 | Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor |
| 1971 | Stuart Holmes, dies of stomach ailment at 87 |
| 1970 | John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 |
| 1967 | Paul Whiteman, U.S. orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77 |
| 1965 | Kusaku Yamada, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1964 | Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1959 | Robin Humphrey Milford, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1958 | Doris Humphrey, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Dances of Women), dies at 63 |
| 1956 | Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73 |
| 1952 | Beryl Rubinstein, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1947 | Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78 |
| 1943 | William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75 |
| 1942 | Frank D. Adams, Canadian geologist, dies at 83 |
| 1937 | Don Marquis, American Poet |
| 1933 | Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered |
| 1926 | Rainer Maria Rilke, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet', dies at 51 |
| 1925 | Felix E Vallotton, Swiss painter/writer (Chaste Susanne), dies at 60 |
| 1919 | William Osler, Canadian Scientist |
| 1916 | Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 |
| 1915 | Charles Beach Hawley, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1898 | Georg Goltermann, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1894 | Chris Rossetti, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1894 | Christina Rossetti, British Poet |
| 1891 | Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 |
| 1890 | Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee |
| 1877 | Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curaeao (Affair-S), dies |
| 1876 | Titus Salt, English Businessman |
| 1871 | Ferdinand Marcucci, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1847 | William Crotch, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1836 | Johann Baptist Schenk, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1835 | Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1825 | Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies |
| 1825 | Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies at 77 |
| 1822 | Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1821 | Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Netherlands general, dies at 61 |
| 1815 | Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris |
| 1785 | Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1731 | J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 |
| 1703 | Mustapha II, sultan (Turkey), dies at 39 |
| 1689 | Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried |
| 1689 | Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist |
| 1630 | Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, RC pastor/lyricist, dies at 51 |
| 1619 | Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies |
| 1558 | Hermann Finck, composer, dies at 31 |
| 1170 | Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II |
| 1141 | Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed |
