| 2003 | David Hemmings, actor/durectir, Blow Up, dies at 62 |
| 2002 | "William ""Tex"" Henson", animator, Rocky and Bullwinkle, dies at 78 |
| 2000 | Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Basil Nield, judge/politician, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Adrianne Jones, killed by David Graham and Diane Zamora, at 16 |
| 1995 | Itzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel 1968 - 1973, assassinated |
| 1994 | Geoffery Rudolph Elton, historiographer, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81), dies at 99 |
| 1994 | Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian playwright, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63 |
| 1993 | Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68 |
| 1993 | Frank V Zappa, U.S. music/composer (Mothers of Invention), dies at 52 |
| 1993 | Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42 |
| 1993 | Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Frank Zappa, American Musician |
| 1990 | Edward Binns, U.S. actor (12 Angry One), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1987 | Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 90 |
| 1986 | Reuben Nakian, U.S. sculptor, dies at 89 |
| 1985 | Marcel Boereboom, Belgian musicologist, dies at 83 |
| 1984 | John Rock, U.S. co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94 |
| 1983 | Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at 55 |
| 1980 | Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal 1980, dies in air crash |
| 1980 | Stella Walsh-S-Walasiewicz, sprinter 1932 Olympics gold, shot at 69 |
| 1979 | Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62 |
| 1978 | Samuel Abraham Goldsmith, Netherlands/U.S. phycists, dies at 76 |
| 1977 | Leila Hyams, actress (Red Headed Woman, Freaks), dies at 72 |
| 1976 | Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63 |
| 1976 | Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies of heroin overdose |
| 1975 | Hannah Arendt, German Historian |
| 1974 | Lee Kinsolving, actor (Explosive Generation), dies at 36 |
| 1973 | Michael O'Shea, actor (Smart Woman), dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1971 | Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies |
| 1969 | Alceo Toni, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1969 | Fred Hampton, U.S. Black-Panther leader, murdered |
| 1967 | Bert Lahr, Irving Lahrheim, U.S. comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72 |
| 1963 | Robert Hamer, British Director |
| 1959 | Rosetta Duncan, (Duncan Sisters), dies in an auto accident at 58 |
| 1954 | Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies |
| 1953 | Daniel Gregory Mason, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1952 | Karen Horney, German/US neo freudian psycho analyst, dies at 67 |
| 1948 | Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies |
| 1943 | Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies at 46 |
| 1938 | Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist/composer, dies at 54 |
| 1935 | Johan Halvorsen, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1933 | Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies at 65 |
| 1932 | Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1923 | [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61 |
| 1923 | Maurice Barres, French Politician |
| 1915 | Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1909 | Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 |
| 1890 | Willem III, Dutch king, buried |
| 1884 | Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1836 | Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1807 | Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston |
| 1798 | Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 |
| 1732 | John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 |
| 1679 | Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher |
| 1676 | Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1649 | Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73 |
| 1642 | Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lueon, dies at about 57 |
| 1642 | Cardinal Richelieu, French Clergyman |
| 1603 | Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71 |
| 1576 | Rheticus, mathematician, dies |
| 1514 | Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide |
| 1371 | Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38 |
| 1371 | Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies |
| 1334 | John XXII, Jacques Dueze, Pope (316-34), dies |
| 1182 | Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies |
| 1137 | Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 |
| 1131 | Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies |
| 811 | Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39 |
| 771 | Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 |
