| 2007 | Jaime Fuster, Representative-D-Puerto Rico 1985 - 1992, died from a heart attack |
| 2002 | Glenn Quinn, actor, Roseanne, dies at 32 |
| 2000 | Gwendolyn Brooks, American Poet |
| 1999 | Madeline Kahn, actress, Young Frankenstein, dies at 57 |
| 1997 | Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Steve Hamilton, pitcher (New York Yankees), dies of cancer at 63 |
| 1996 | Babrak Karmal, Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1980 - 1981, dies |
| 1996 | Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | George Duby, historian, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Jimmy Jewel, comedian, television, film actor, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Meyer, wife of Paul Michael Glaser, dies of AIDS at 47 |
| 1994 | Giorgi Chanturia, President of Georgia, assassinated |
| 1994 | Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies |
| 1994 | Said Mekbel, Algerian editor in chief (Le Matin), murdered at 57 |
| 1993 | Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80 |
| 1993 | Thomas Mogotlane, South African actor (Mapantsula), dies at 40 |
| 1992 | Harry Ellerbe, actor (House of Usher, Magnetic Monster), dies at 91 |
| 1992 | Luis Alcoriza, actor/writer/director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema |
| 1992 | Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies |
| 1991 | Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies |
| 1991 | Casey Walters, actor (True Story of Lynn Stuart), after a stroke at 75 |
| 1990 | Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at 59 |
| 1985 | Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70 |
| 1984 | Virginia Lacy Jones, U.S. librarian/presidents advisor, dies at 72 |
| 1981 | Walter Knott, American Businessman |
| 1978 | William Grant Still, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Mary Nash, actress (Philadelphia Story, Till the Clouds Roll By), dies at 91 |
| 1975 | Jacob Kruijt, Dutch sociologist, dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67 |
| 1969 | Ruth White, actress (Fugitive), dies of cancer at 55 |
| 1967 | Annette Kolb, writer, dies at 92 |
| 1967 | Fred Engelen, Flemish actor and director (Kritisch Theater), dies at 54 |
| 1967 | Manuel A Fraai, Curaeaos author (Silly Aguero), dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Ernst Ginsberg, writer, dies |
| 1961 | Jekabs Graubins, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1961 | Mary Charleson, actress (Upstairs and Downstairs), dies at 76 |
| 1960 | Hermann Stephani, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1957 | Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81 |
| 1954 | Enrique Soro Barriga, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1949 | Elin Pelin, writer, dies |
| 1949 | Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Spookies), dies at 62 |
| 1944 | Delfien Vanhaute, Flemish pastor/poet (Ark of Noah), dies at 75 |
| 1942 | Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1941 | Johann Christian August Sinding, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1937 | Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies |
| 1933 | Richard Henry Warren, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1919 | Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78 |
| 1919 | Auguste Renoir, French Artist |
| 1910 | Mary Baker Eddy, founder Christian Science Monitor, dies |
| 1894 | HM Jozef Schadde, Flem architect (Antwerp Stock exchange), dies at 76 |
| 1894 | Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45 |
| 1893 | Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle |
| 1892 | William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, dies |
| 1889 | Baltasar Saldoni, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1888 | Carl Zeiss, German Scientist |
| 1876 | Hermann Goetz, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1866 | Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1857 | Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80 |
| 1839 | Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies at 71 |
| 1823 | Joseph Pouteau, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1807 | Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies |
| 1789 | Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies |
| 1676 | Daniel Stalpaert, Amsterdams master builder, buried |
| 1660 | Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 |
| 1533 | Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54 |
| 1491 | Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies |
| 1469 | Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at about 53 |
| 1463 | Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies |
| 1154 | Anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54), dies |
| 1137 | Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-Germany emperor (1133-37), dies at 67 |
| 450 | Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies |