| 2007 | Ray Evans, dies in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure, at 92 |
| 2004 | Jan Miner, pitchwoman/stage actress, You're soaking in it, dies at 86 |
| 2002 | Howard K. Smith, TV journalist, dies at 87 |
| 2002 | Kevin Smith, actor, Xena, dies at 38 |
| 1999 | Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist |
| 1998 | Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89 |
| 1998 | Martha Gellhorn, journalist, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies |
| 1996 | Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72 |
| 1996 | McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Lord Taylor of Hadfield, British President of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33 |
| 1995 | Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail |
| 1995 | Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies |
| 1994 | Andrei Tsjikatilo, Rostov Ripper, Russian mass murdered, executed |
| 1994 | Tiger Haynes, U.S. actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | George Wallington, Giacinto Figlia, Italian bebop-pianist, dies |
| 1992 | William H Schuman, U.S. composer (Pulitzer)/President of Julliard, dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack |
| 1991 | Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78 |
| 1990 | Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77 |
| 1990 | Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68 |
| 1988 | Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies |
| 1988 | Gardiner Means, U.S. economist, dies at 91 |
| 1988 | Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Neil Ronald Jones, science fiction writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78 |
| 1988 | Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69 |
| 1987 | Jimmy Holiday, U.S. singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42 |
| 1987 | Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1984 | Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1984 | Ethel Merman, singer and actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76 |
| 1984 | Leamon Hunt, U.S. director-General in Sinai, killed by communists |
| 1982 | Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Mike Bloomfield, musician, guitarist, composer, number 22 on Rolling Stone's '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time', dies of drug overdose at 36 |
| 1981 | Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1979 | Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51 |
| 1979 | Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/military governor of Teheran, executed |
| 1978 | Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Julian Huxley, biologist, dies |
| 1975 | Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies |
| 1974 | Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55 |
| 1973 | Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48 |
| 1972 | Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 |
| 1972 | Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73 |
| 1971 | Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37 |
| 1967 | Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79 |
| 1967 | William C Bullitt, 1st U.S. ambassador in U.S.S.R., dies at 76 |
| 1966 | Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies |
| 1965 | Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49 |
| 1964 | Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman for the Chicago Cubs, dies in plane crash at 22 |
| 1962 | Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak and Dagger), dies at 72 |
| 1961 | Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59 |
| 1961 | Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater 1932 Olympics silver, dies |
| 1959 | Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 |
| 1955 | S. Z. Sakall, actor, Dolly Sisters, Casablanca, dies at 71 |
| 1943 | Thomas "Fats" Waller, U.S. jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38 |
| 1943 | William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1942 | Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91 |
| 1942 | Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1939 | Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47 |
| 1939 | Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68 |
| 1933 | Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami |
| 1932 | Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66 |
| 1930 | Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier |
| 1928 | Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (1908-16), dies at 75 |
| 1924 | Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 |
| 1923 | Josephine B Willson Bruce, U.S. black theorist, dies at 69 |
| 1922 | Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36 |
| 1919 | Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66 |
| 1917 | Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60 |
| 1916 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1910 | Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1905 | Lewis Wallace, U.S. diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77 |
| 1905 | Lew Wallace, American Soldier |
| 1904 | Marcus A. Hanna, American Politician |
| 1903 | Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69 |
| 1902 | Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68 |
| 1896 | E J Nicholson, writer, dies |
| 1891 | William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies |
| 1887 | Alexander Borodin, composer, dies |
| 1885 | Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1865 | Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies |
| 1864 | Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies |
| 1864 | William Dyce, painter, dies |
| 1857 | Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies |
| 1857 | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53 |
| 1849 | Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44 |
| 1844 | Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, British premier (1801-04), dies at 86 |
| 1841 | Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53 |
| 1835 | Henry Hunt, British politican, dies |
| 1832 | Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1831 | Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies |
| 1820 | Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 |
| 1820 | William Ellery, U.S. attorney signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 92 |
| 1818 | Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69 |
| 1781 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1780 | William Blackstone, jurist, dies |
| 1779 | James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii |
| 1778 | Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1761 | Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1759 | Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89 |
| 1744 | Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1744 | John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies |
| 1713 | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies |
| 1709 | John Philips, English Poet |
| 1701 | Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80 |
| 1686 | Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies |
| 1680 | Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41 |
| 1680 | John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43 |
| 1660 | Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72 |
| 1637 | Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58 |
| 1621 | Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 |
| 1600 | Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59 |
| 1597 | Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66 |
| 1580 | Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies |
| 1568 | Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36 |
| 1503 | Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies |
| 1400 | Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle |
| 1152 | Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 |
| 1145 | Lucius II, Gherardo Caccianemici, Italian Pope (1144-45), dies |
| 1043 | Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52 |
