| 2007 | Gene Snyder, Representative-R-Kentucky, 1963 - 1965 and 1967 - 1987 |
| 2002 | John W. Gardner, American Educator |
| 2001 | Howard Koch, producer, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 84 |
| 1998 | Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Brownie McGhee, blues guitarist, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Pat Brown, politician, Democratic party, 32nd Governor of California, in Beverly Hills, California, at age 90 |
| 1996 | Kenneth Robinson, politician/businessman, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | MacLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H), dies of heart attack at 66 |
| 1996 | Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Susan Bosence, textile designer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | John Everett Allen, U.S. businessman, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Martin Soames, traveller, dies at 91 |
| 1993 | Donald Phelps, dies of AIDS at 61 |
| 1993 | Richard Salant, news president (CBS-60 Minutes), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated |
| 1992 | Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1992 | George Mann MacBeth, Scottish journalist/poet (A War Quartet), dies |
| 1992 | Janio Quadros, president of Brazil (1961), dies |
| 1992 | Winand J Borgerhoff Mulder, court judge Amster (squaters), dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Enrique B Varela, commandant Nicaragua contra's, dies |
| 1990 | Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31 |
| 1987 | Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Howard Da Silva, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76 |
| 1985 | Larry Ward, actor (Frank Ragan-Dakotas), dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 |
| 1981 | Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1979 | Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 |
| 1979 | Nematullah Nassiri, Iran general/head of Savak, executed |
| 1968 | Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1967 | Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 |
| 1966 | Hendrik W. Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Laszlo Lajtha, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1957 | Leslie Hore-Belisha, Lord Halifax, British Minister of Transport, dies at 63 |
| 1952 | Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies |
| 1951 | Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Rudolf Varnlund, Swedish playwright (Upproret), dies at 45 |
| 1944 | Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1939 | Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26 |
| 1938 | Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64 |
| 1936 | Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted |
| 1934 | Eduard Bagritsky, Dzjubin, Russian poet/journalist, dies at 38 |
| 1931 | Dirk Schafer, Dutch pianist/composer (Klavier), dies at 57 |
| 1928 | Eddie Foy, American Actor |
| 1916 | Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79 |
| 1916 | [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at 57 |
| 1915 | Emil Waldteufel, Charles Levy, French composer (Estudiantina), dies |
| 1912 | Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies |
| 1910 | Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1907 | Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies |
| 1900 | George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle |
| 1899 | Francois Felix Faure, president of France (1895-99), dies at 57 |
| 1898 | Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet |
| 1892 | Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies |
| 1864 | Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1862 | William Pennington, American Lawyer |
| 1858 | Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86 |
| 1857 | Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, French engraver, dies at 77 |
| 1857 | Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37 |
| 1851 | Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician, dies at 95 |
| 1834 | Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies |
| 1829 | Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian/French composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95 |
| 1825 | George Gerson, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1823 | Johann Gottfried Schict, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1823 | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism dies |
| 1803 | Jan V clav Stich, Bohemian composer, dies at 56 |
| 1799 | Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts and Bayern), dies at 74 |
| 1791 | Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Netherlands, commits suicide at 58 |
| 1779 | William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies |
| 1754 | Richard Mead, physician, dies |
| 1653 | Johannes Schultz, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1538 | Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 |
| 1391 | Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies |
| 1279 | Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies |
| 1247 | Hendrik Raspe, Papenking, count of Thuringen, dies |
| 923 | Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 |
| 309 | Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded |
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