| 2008 | Roy Scheider, dies in Little Rock, Arkansas, complications from a staph infection, at 75 |
| 2005 | Fritz Scholder, American Artist |
| 2003 | Ron Ziegler, American Politician |
| 2002 | Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier |
| 2002 | Jack Henry Abbott, American Author |
| 2000 | Jim Varney, actor, Ernest Goes to Camp, dies at 50 |
| 1998 | Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9 |
| 1998 | Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies |
| 1997 | Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47 |
| 1997 | Milton Cato, Prime Minister of San Vincent and Grenadines 1979 - 1984, dies |
| 1996 | Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist, dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49 |
| 1995 | S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies |
| 1993 | Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live), dies of liver failure at 47 |
| 1993 | Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France 1957, dies |
| 1992 | Alex Haley, U.S. writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1992 | Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies |
| 1992 | Meade Roberts, screenwriter, dies of congestive heart failure at 61 |
| 1992 | Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr. Faustus), dies |
| 1992 | Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies |
| 1989 | Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!" |
| 1986 | Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie), dies at 83 |
| 1983 | Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies |
| 1977 | Grace Mary Williams, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Billy Rose, U.S. theater producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66 |
| 1962 | Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 |
| 1958 | Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue), dies at 42 |
| 1957 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90 |
| 1951 | Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1950 | Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1948 | Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies |
| 1948 | Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50 |
| 1945 | Juan de Hernandez, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1943 | Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance |
| 1939 | Pius XI, Ambrogio D A Ratti, Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81 |
| 1932 | R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 |
| 1932 | Edgar Wallace, British Writer |
| 1923 | Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77 |
| 1918 | Abdul-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey (lost Serbia/Egypt), dies at 65 |
| 1917 | Emile Pessard, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1915 | Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65 |
| 1905 | Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1902 | J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies |
| 1891 | Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician |
| 1887 | Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 |
| 1887 | Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54 |
| 1880 | Isaac M "Isaac A" Cremieux, French minister of Justice, dies at 83 |
| 1879 | Honore V Daumier, French painter/lithographer, dies at 70 |
| 1879 | Wolter R baron van Hoevell, Dutch vicar/abolitionist, dies at 66 |
| 1878 | Claude Bernard, French Psychologist |
| 1876 | Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1861 | Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies |
| 1837 | Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 |
| 1837 | Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author |
| 1832 | Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1829 | Leo XII, Annibale Sermattei, Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68 |
| 1825 | Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68 |
| 1822 | Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary, dies at 83 |
| 1816 | Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1783 | James Nares, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1774 | Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1772 | Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75 |
| 1772 | Louis Tocque, French painter, dies at 75 |
| 1755 | Baron de Montesquieu, French Philosopher |
| 1711 | Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager and Atalante), dies at 22 |
| 1686 | William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies |
| 1678 | Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried |
| 1657 | Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter, dies at 59 |
| 1598 | Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies |
| 1588 | Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82 |
| 1567 | Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered |
| 1495 | William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy |
| 1482 | Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81 |
| 1164 | Hugo of Fosses/Premontre, abbott of Premontre, dies |
| 1164 | Hugo van Fosses/Premontre, abbott of Premontre, dies |
| 1162 | Boudouin III, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora, dies |
| 1134 | Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies |
