| 2007 | Karlheinz Stockhausen, dies in Germany, of heart failure, at 79 |
| 2002 | Roone Arledge, TV innovator, crated NFL Monday Night Football, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67 |
| 1997 | Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Wilf Carter, country singer, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday |
| 1994 | Harry Horner, Czechoslovakian/U.S. set designer/director, 'Our Town', dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Richard Brian Waring Barton-Chapple, writer, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Alexandre Trauber, Hungarian/French set designer (Harem), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Arthur Staal, Dutch architect (Shell Tower Amsterdam), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Douglas Hopkins, guitarist (Gin Blossoms), dies of gun shot at 32 |
| 1992 | Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54 |
| 1992 | Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41 |
| 1991 | Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies |
| 1991 | Jill Browne, dies at 54 |
| 1991 | Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday |
| 1990 | Steven Shaw, dies at 25 |
| 1989 | John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 |
| 1987 | "Fat" Larry James, U.S. drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38 |
| 1986 | Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer |
| 1983 | Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Jimmy Nervo, actor (Frozen Limits), dies |
| 1974 | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (U.S. Open 1909-11), dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Henry Wadsworth, actor (Applause, Ceiling Zero), dies at 72 |
| 1974 | Pietro Germi, actor and director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60 |
| 1971 | Hugh Wakefield, actress (Blithe Spirit), dies |
| 1968 | Fred Clark, actor (Zotz, Auntie Mame), dies of liver ailment at 54 |
| 1966 | Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies at 57 |
| 1964 | Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Tailor Wibbel), dies at 70 |
| 1963 | Herbert H Lehman, (Gov-D-NY), dies |
| 1963 | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1958 | Ferdinand Bruckner, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1955 | Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73 |
| 1951 | "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies |
| 1951 | Shoeless Joe Jackson, American Athlete |
| 1950 | Sri Aurobindo, Indian Philosopher |
| 1942 | Buck Jones, Hollywood's last cowboy hero actor (Headin' East), buried |
| 1940 | Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1938 | Christina "Dina" Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer, dies at 54 |
| 1935 | Frans, MJ Francois, Erens, literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78 |
| 1931 | Vachel Lindsay, American Poet |
| 1928 | Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61 |
| 1926 | Claude Monet, French Artist |
| 1925 | Wilhelmina E Drucker, Lensing, Dutch feminist, dies at 78 |
| 1922 | Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies |
| 1916 | Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1902 | Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1891 | JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies |
| 1886 | Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84 |
| 1870 | A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1870 | Alexander Dumas, French Novelist |
| 1859 | Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 |
| 1853 | Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1842 | MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82 |
| 1835 | August vs. Platen, writer, dies at 39 |
| 1818 | Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60 |
| 1799 | Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1791 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35 |
| 1784 | Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston |
| 1770 | James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 |
| 1758 | Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1745 | Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1675 | John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 |
| 1663 | Severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1594 | Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 |
| 1560 | Francois II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 |
| 1355 | Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies |
| 1244 | Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies |
| 1212 | Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies |
