| 2004 | Artie Shaw, clarinetist/bandleader, dies at 93 |
| 2003 | Anita Mui, singer/actress, dies at 40 |
| 2003 | John Gregory Dunne, writer, True Confessions, dies at 71 |
| 1999 | Sarah Clark Knauss, oldest person 1999, dies at 119 |
| 1998 | Johnny Roventini, pitchman, Phillip Morris radio and TV ads, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Jack Nance, actor (Meatballs 4, Whore, Voodoo), murdered at 53 |
| 1996 | Lew Ayres, screen actor (Salem's Lot, State Fair), dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Heiner Muller, dramatist, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Roger W. Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Mack David, U.S. songwriter (Bachelor in Paradise), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | [Irving Paul] "Swifty" Lazar, superagent, dies of kidney failure at 86 |
| 1992 | Cesar [Caesar] Domela, painter/son of Ferdinand D Nieuwenhuis, dies |
| 1992 | Ling-Ling, 1st panda China gave U.S., dies at 23 |
| 1989 | Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies |
| 1979 | Richard Rodgers, composer, Rogers and Hammerstein, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Henri-Paul Busser, composer, dies at 101 |
| 1971 | Dorothy Comingore, actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58 |
| 1967 | Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38 |
| 1966 | Christian A Herter, U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st United Nations Secretary-General (1946-53), dies at 72 |
| 1961 | Jacobus "Ko" van den Bosch, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned)/dir, dies at 53 |
| 1959 | Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76 |
| 1952 | Ivan Olbracht, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 76 |
| 1947 | Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58 |
| 1947 | Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician |
| 1946 | Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1944 | Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78 |
| 1943 | Hobart Bosworth, actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), dies at 76 |
| 1941 | El Lissitzky, Russian Artist |
| 1940 | Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1931 | Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 |
| 1912 | Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies at 60 |
| 1899 | James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85 |
| 1895 | LP Hartley, British writer, dies |
| 1894 | Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76 |
| 1893 | Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72 |
| 1870 | ... Prim, Spanish general, murdered |
| 1832 | Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies |
| 1828 | Waldemar Thrane, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1825 | Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1821 | Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1796 | Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1788 | Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86 |
| 1777 | Maximilian III Jozef, elector of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50 |
| 1635 | Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies |
| 1591 | Innocent IX, Giovanni Facchinetti, Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72 |
| 1572 | Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 |
| 1525 | Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66 |
| 273 | Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274) |
