| 2008 | Tom Lantos, dies in Bethesda, Maryland, of complications of esophageal cancer, at 80 |
| 2003 | Thomas Leonard, American Businessman |
| 2000 | Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Don Porter, actor, Gidget, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Amelia Rosselli, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Bob Shaw, science fiction writer, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1996 | Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies |
| 1996 | Kebby Musokotwane, prime minister of Zambia in (1985-89), dies |
| 1996 | Phil Regan, actor (Las Vegas Night, Dames, Housewife), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist, dies in cycling accident at 23 |
| 1994 | Sorrell Brooke, actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | William Conrad, actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at 73 |
| 1993 | George A Stephen, inventor (Weber Kettle Grill), dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Lives), dies of liver failure |
| 1993 | Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnast, dies in an auto accident |
| 1992 | Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60 |
| 1991 | Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building), dies at 90 |
| 1989 | George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 |
| 1986 | Frank Herbert, American Writer |
| 1985 | Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer, dies of pneumonia at 83 |
| 1985 | Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86 |
| 1985 | Ulysses Sipmson Kay, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1982 | Eleanor Powell, tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies at 69 of cancer |
| 1982 | Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76 |
| 1982 | Victor Jory, Alaskan actor (Kings Row, Manhunt), dies at 79 |
| 1978 | James B Conant, headmaster (Harvard University), dies at 84 |
| 1978 | James Bryant Conant, American Scientist |
| 1977 | Louis J M Beel, Dutch premier (1946-48, 58-59), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies |
| 1976 | Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89 |
| 1976 | Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64 |
| 1976 | Lee J. Cobb, American Actor |
| 1974 | Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 |
| 1972 | Jan Wils, architect (Olympian Stadium, Amsterdam), dies at 80 |
| 1971 | Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria |
| 1970 | Emil Abranyi, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1969 | James Lanphier, actor (Flight of Lost Balloon), dies at 48 |
| 1968 | Howard Lindsay, U.S. playwright (State of the Union), dies at 78 |
| 1967 | A. J. Muste, American Activist |
| 1963 | Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 |
| 1961 | Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 |
| 1961 | Patrice Lumumba, 1st premier Congo, murdered at 34 |
| 1948 | Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50 |
| 1945 | Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru The Tulips), dies at 53 |
| 1945 | J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme |
| 1944 | Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies |
| 1941 | Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63 |
| 1940 | John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), dies |
| 1939 | Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 64 |
| 1931 | Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 |
| 1931 | Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies |
| 1922 | Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67 |
| 1911 | Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66 |
| 1907 | Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 |
| 1907 | William Howard Russell, Irish Journalist |
| 1903 | Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1901 | Milan I, king of Serbia, dies at 56 |
| 1899 | George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies |
| 1894 | Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1892 | Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1882 | Gustav Schmidt, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1879 | Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter, dies |
| 1879 | Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 |
| 1870 | Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-49), dies at 76 |
| 1870 | Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1868 | Leon Foucault, discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies |
| 1841 | J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55 |
| 1806 | Vicente Martin y Soler, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1797 | Antoine Dauvergne, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1762 | Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1685 | David Teniers III, Flemish painter, dies at 46 |
| 1650 | Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking |
| 1622 | Alfonso Fontanelli, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1554 | Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule |
| 1543 | Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal, dies in battle |
| 1503 | Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday |
| 1141 | Hugo of St-Victor, philosopher/theologist/mystic, dies |
| 867 | Theodora, the Saint, beauty queen/empress of Byzantine, dies |
| 824 | Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies |
| 821 | Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies |
| 731 | Gregory II, Greek-Syrian Pope, dies |
| 641 | Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65 |
