| 2005 | Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., Representative-R-South Carolina, 1979 - 1986, Governor of South Carolina 1987 - 1995 |
| 2003 | Joe Skeen, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003 |
| 1996 | Eugene Izzi, mystery writer, hangs himself at 43 |
| 1996 | Jose Donoso, writer, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42 |
| 1994 | Elga Andersen, German/French model/actress (Global Affair), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of Ivory Coast (1960-93), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Janet Margolin, actress (David and Lisa), dies of ovarian cancer at 50 |
| 1993 | Robert Taft, Jr., Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, died at age 76 |
| 1992 | Maurice Coutinho, writer/translator (Silent Struggle), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Ruth Corbett Thom, dies after long illness at 78 |
| 1992 | Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71 |
| 1990 | Delecta "Dee" Clark, U.S. singer (Raindrops), dies at 52 |
| 1990 | Horst Bienek, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1990 | Joan Bennett, U.S. actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80 |
| 1988 | Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies |
| 1988 | Christopher Connelly, actor (Liar's Moon, Hawmps), dies at 47 |
| 1988 | Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire |
| 1985 | Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice 1958 - 1981, dies in New Hampshire at 70 |
| 1985 | Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90 |
| 1984 | Jeanne Cagney, actress (Quicksand, Kentucky Rifle), dies at 65 |
| 1983 | Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA |
| 1982 | Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas |
| 1980 | Darby Crash, rocker, dies at 22 |
| 1979 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies |
| 1979 | Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Nicolas Born, writer, wrote, 'Die Falschung', 'Die erdabgewandte Seite der Gerschichte', dies at 41 in Luchow-Dannenberg |
| 1979 | Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris |
| 1975 | Hardie Albright, actress (Silver Streak, Scarlet Letter), dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Thornton N Wilder, U.S. writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Thornton Wilder, American Novelist |
| 1972 | Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91 |
| 1971 | Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90 |
| 1970 | Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87 |
| 1969 | Eric Portman, actor (Naked Edge), dies from heart ailment at 66 |
| 1969 | Hugh Williams, actor (Human Monster), dies after surgery at 65 |
| 1967 | House Peters, silent film actor (Kansas Territory), dies at 87 |
| 1962 | Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies at 67 |
| 1948 | Godfrey Turner, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1943 | John Bouber, Blom, actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22 |
| 1941 | Cecil Forsyth, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1941 | Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28 |
| 1917 | Leon Minkus, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1912 | George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies |
| 1912 | George Howard Darwin, British Scientist |
| 1902 | Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies |
| 1902 | Thomas Reed, American Politician |
| 1899 | Antoni Katski, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1894 | Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 |
| 1881 | Julius FA Bahnsen, Germany philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51 |
| 1867 | Rudolf Viole, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1862 | Sylvester Churchill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1860 | Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43 |
| 1841 | Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1839 | Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1834 | Ludwig Schuncke, composer, dies at 23 |
| 1834 | Edward Irving, Scottish Clergyman |
| 1829 | Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1826 | John Flaxman, English sculptor (tombs at St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71 |
| 1823 | Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1817 | William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63 |
| 1815 | Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46 |
| 1811 | Ignaz Spangler, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1383 | Wenceslaus, duke of Brabant, dies |
| 1254 | Innocent IV, Sinibaldo dei Fieschi, Pope (1243-54), dies |
| 983 | Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28 |
