| 1997 | Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Howard E Rollins, Jr., actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46 |
| 1996 | Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86 |
| 1992 | William Shawn, U.S. editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85 |
| 1991 | Buck Clayton, U.S. jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies |
| 1991 | Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23 |
| 1990 | Martin Ritt, U.S., director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70 |
| 1990 | Pony Sherrell Metcalf, New York, singer, dies of heart attack |
| 1989 | Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies |
| 1988 | Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79 |
| 1988 | Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, U.S. singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44 |
| 1986 | Henry Reed, English Writer |
| 1986 | Sydney J. Harris, journalist, wrote, syndicated column, 'Strictly Personal', wrote for Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, political positions placed him on the list of Nixon political opponents, wrote, 'The Authentic Person: Dealing with Dilemma', dies in Chicago, Illinois |
| 1984 | Luther Adler, actor (Dr. Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64 |
| 1982 | Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered |
| 1982 | Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies |
| 1982 | Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered |
| 1982 | Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered |
| 1982 | Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered |
| 1982 | Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered |
| 1982 | John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered |
| 1982 | Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered |
| 1982 | Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered |
| 1982 | Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered |
| 1982 | Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered |
| 1982 | Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at 57 |
| 1982 | Shakey, Walter Horton, rocker, dies at 72 |
| 1982 | Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered |
| 1981 | Shakey, Walter Horton, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64 |
| 1980 | John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40 |
| 1978 | Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister 1969 - 1974, dies in Jerusalem at 80 |
| 1974 | Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62 |
| 1972 | George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash |
| 1970 | Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 |
| 1969 | Vincenzo Davico, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1967 | Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32 |
| 1961 | William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1957 | Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55 |
| 1956 | Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1955 | Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69 |
| 1955 | Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician |
| 1954 | Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50 |
| 1939 | Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1934 | Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1933 | John Joly, Irish Scientist |
| 1926 | Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies |
| 1924 | Franz X. Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74 |
| 1923 | Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88 |
| 1907 | Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies |
| 1903 | Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 |
| 1900 | Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1896 | Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75 |
| 1896 | Ernst Engel, German Economist |
| 1894 | Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71 |
| 1864 | George Boole, Irish Mathematician |
| 1859 | Thomas De Quincey, English Author |
| 1831 | James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies |
| 1830 | H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 |
| 1792 | Henry Laurens, American Politician |
| 1785 | Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1751 | Jozef LD von Konigsegg, minister of Austrian Netherlands, dies at 78 |
| 1722 | Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 |
| 1709 | Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 |
| 1691 | Richard Baxter, English Clergyman |
| 1681 | Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies |
| 1652 | Adriaan W. "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35 |
| 1643 | John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 |
| 1596 | Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico |
| 1587 | Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed |
| 1292 | John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62 |
| 899 | Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies |
| 644 | Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered |
