| 2000 | Werner Klemperer, actor, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 80 |
| 1998 | Michael Zaslow, actor, The Guiding Light, dies at 56 |
| 1997 | Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68 |
| 1997 | Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91 |
| 1997 | Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Pete Rozelle, commissioner NFL, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, journalist, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money), dies at 103 |
| 1995 | Leslie Wilkinson, journalist, dies at 97 |
| 1995 | Claire Polin, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | AJ Bronkhorst, vicar/theologist (Reform The Netherlands), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Gian Maria Volonte, actresss (Fistful of Dollars), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon), dies of prostate cancer at 85 |
| 1993 | Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Rita Macedo, actress (Divinas Palabras), dies of heart attack at 65 |
| 1993 | Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, murdered |
| 1992 | Hank Worden, actor (Red River), dies of natural causes at 91 |
| 1992 | Percy Herbert, actor (Captain Apache), dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1991 | Ann Sorg Coston, actress (Anna-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies |
| 1990 | Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia 1957 - 1970, dies |
| 1989 | Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86 |
| 1989 | John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77 |
| 1989 | Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1988 | Bill Harris, U.S. guitarist (Clovers-Love Potion No 9), dies at 63 |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison, singer (Pretty Woman), dies of massive heart attack at 52 |
| 1987 | James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies |
| 1986 | Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22 |
| 1985 | Burleigh Grimes, U.S. baseball pitcher, dies at 92 |
| 1985 | Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran and Ollie), dies at 68 |
| 1984 | Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90 |
| 1973 | Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1973 | Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Janet Munro, actress (Crawling Eye, Swiss Family Robinson), dies at 38 |
| 1971 | Jan Altink, Dutch painter/co-founder (Plough), dies at 86 |
| 1970 | Thomas S Power, USAF-General (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65 |
| 1966 | Hermann Heiss, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1965 | Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 |
| 1963 | Jozef Goossenaerts, Flem philologist (Language Boundary), dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Erwin Bodky, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1953 | Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48 |
| 1951 | J Edward Bromberg, dies at 47 |
| 1951 | Harold Ross, American Editor |
| 1949 | Leadbelly, Huddie William Ledbetter, blues singer, dies at 64 |
| 1946 | Maximilian Oseyevich Shteynberg, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1943 | Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies at 69 |
| 1943 | Hermann Lohr, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1941 | Anthony G Kroller, entrepreneur/government advisor, dies |
| 1933 | Auguste Chapuis, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1926 | Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86 |
| 1920 | Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1914 | Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 |
| 1903 | Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1892 | E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 |
| 1889 | Jefferson Davis, President of Confederate States 1861 - 1865, dies at 81 |
| 1889 | Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48 |
| 1882 | A Trollope, writer, dies |
| 1882 | Anthony Trollope, English Author |
| 1882 | Louis Blanc, French Politician |
| 1873 | Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 |
| 1869 | Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 |
| 1867 | Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1865 | Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56 |
| 1834 | Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54 |
| 1799 | Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 |
| 1793 | Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded |
| 1779 | Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, French still life painter, dies at 80 |
| 1658 | Gracian, writer, dies |
| 1658 | Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Baroque prose writer, wrote 'El heroe' or 'The Hero', 'El politico', or 'The Politician', 'El discreto', 'The Discreet One', exiled for 'Criticon', or 'Faultfinder' |
| 1651 | Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, dies at 68 |
| 1640 | Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75 |
| 1598 | Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 |
| 1562 | Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies |
| 1550 | Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48 |
| 1531 | John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded |
| 1352 | Clement VI, Pierre Roger, Pope (1342-52), dies |
| 1185 | Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76 |
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