| 2007 | Charlie Norwood, dies in Augusta, Georgia, of cancer, at 65 |
| 2006 | Andreas Katsulas, American Actor |
| 2002 | Waylon Jennings, singer/songwriter, dies at 64 |
| 1998 | Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58 |
| 1998 | Jo Clayton, author, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Daniel K Womack, singer and guitarist, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Martin Balsam, actor (Archie's Place), dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered |
| 1995 | Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Azeddine Medjoubi, head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49 |
| 1995 | Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91 |
| 1992 | Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist and writer (Restless Travel), dies at 61 |
| 1991 | Bernard Sauer, Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1991 | Eddie Bartell, actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83 |
| 1990 | Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79 |
| 1989 | Wayne Hays, Representative-D-Ohio 1949 - 1976 |
| 1983 | Marian Nixon, actress (Dr. Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1982 | Zeng Jinlian, Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman), dies at 17 |
| 1980 | David Janssen, Meyer, actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49 |
| 1977 | Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77 |
| 1976 | General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria, killed during a coup |
| 1976 | Lily Pons, French/U.S. soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1975 | Henry P Van Dusen, U.S. protestant theologist, dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 |
| 1968 | Mae Marsh, actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72 |
| 1966 | Elio Vittorini, writer, dies |
| 1965 | Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies |
| 1965 | William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93 |
| 1963 | Harry Steers, bowling hall of famer, dies |
| 1960 | Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79 |
| 1959 | William L Axt, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Georges Rouault, French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at 86 |
| 1954 | Frederick Lewis Allen, American Editor |
| 1952 | Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71 |
| 1951 | Lloyd C. Douglas, American Clergyman |
| 1943 | William Walraven, journalist and writer (Neglected Grouser), dies at 55 |
| 1937 | C A Bernoulli, writer, dies |
| 1935 | Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 |
| 1927 | Brooks Adams, U.S. philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78 |
| 1921 | Willem P C Knuttel, Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67 |
| 1917 | Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48 |
| 1907 | Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59 |
| 1896 | Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1894 | Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65 |
| 1893 | Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 |
| 1891 | David Dixon Porter, U.S. rear Admiral (Union), dies at 77 |
| 1883 | Pavel Melnikov, Petsjerski, Russian historian, dies at 64 |
| 1883 | Richard Wagner, German composer (Die Walkure), dies at 69 in Venice |
| 1883 | Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1882 | Henry Highland Garnet, diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66 |
| 1873 | Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer, Abraham van Luik, literary, dies |
| 1849 | Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1841 | Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45 |
| 1814 | Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1798 | Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24 |
| 1784 | Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies |
| 1741 | Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80 |
| 1724 | Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1693 | Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65 |
| 1662 | Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, dies at 65 |
| 1635 | Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50 |
| 1629 | Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1602 | Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St. Paul's, dies |
| 1542 | Catharine Howard, queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, beheaded |
| 1332 | Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies |
| 1315 | Jean I of Chalon-Arlay, mayor of Neuchatel, dies |
| 1237 | Jordanus of Saxon, 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns |
| 1199 | Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies |
| 1130 | Honorius II, Lamberto, Pope (1124-30), dies |
