| 2005 | Peter Foy, English Actor |
| 1998 | Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at 102 |
| 1996 | Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Henry Guinness, missionary, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Michael Raptis, writer/recolutionary, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Evelyn Laye, actress and singer 'Sun Child', dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan), dies at 50 |
| 1995 | Thelma Hulbert, painter, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Randy Shilts, U.S. journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41 |
| 1993 | Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed |
| 1993 | George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77 |
| 1993 | Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (England in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies |
| 1991 | Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra), dies |
| 1990 | Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at 84 |
| 1990 | Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39 |
| 1990 | Keith Haring, U.S. graffiti-artist, dies at 31 |
| 1990 | Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies |
| 1989 | Lefty Gomez, pitching great (New York Yankees), dies at 80 |
| 1987 | Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies |
| 1987 | Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies |
| 1986 | Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90 |
| 1986 | Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies |
| 1985 | Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman), dies at 67 |
| 1984 | Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies), dies at 69 |
| 1982 | Lee Strasberg, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All), dies at 81 |
| 1982 | Theolonious S Monk, U.S., jazz pianist/composer (Blue Monk), dies at 64 |
| 1980 | Graham Sutherland, painter, dies |
| 1980 | Jerry Fielding, composer (Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes), dies at 57 |
| 1977 | Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 76 |
| 1976 | Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy), dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78 |
| 1972 | Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1972 | Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder (SF Zen Center), ashes buried |
| 1971 | Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), dies at 73 |
| 1970 | Agnon, SJ Czaczkes, Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81 |
| 1970 | Alfred Newman, U.S. composer, dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies |
| 1968 | Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia), dies of heart ailment at 65 |
| 1966 | Frank Pettingell, actor (Becket, Up the Creek), dies at 75 |
| 1966 | Gail Kane, actress (White Sister, Arizona), dies at 81 |
| 1966 | Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real), dies at 85 |
| 1966 | Alfred P. Sloan, American Businessman |
| 1962 | Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55 |
| 1961 | Nita Naldi, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies of heart attack at 63 |
| 1959 | Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl), dies |
| 1959 | Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's New York Giants, dies |
| 1955 | Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist, dies at 52 |
| 1954 | Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72 |
| 1951 | Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1944 | Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64 |
| 1936 | Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74 |
| 1934 | Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34), dies at 58 |
| 1933 | Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at 84 |
| 1932 | Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70 |
| 1932 | Florence Kelley, American Activist |
| 1924 | Oskar Merikanto, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1918 | Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian Prime Minister 1896 - 1911, dies |
| 1917 | Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 |
| 1913 | Joaquin Miller, American Poet |
| 1912 | Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary), dies at 57 |
| 1912 | L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies |
| 1908 | Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79 |
| 1907 | Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), dies |
| 1907 | Henry Steel Olcott, U.S. co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74 |
| 1905 | Serge Alexandrovich, Governor-General Moscow, murdered |
| 1903 | Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1901 | Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1898 | Frances E. Willard, American Activist |
| 1884 | Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet |
| 1883 | Napoleon Coste, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1878 | Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59 |
| 1875 | Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33 |
| 1874 | [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/sociologist, dies at 77 |
| 1865 | George Phillips Bond, American Scientist |
| 1856 | Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris |
| 1856 | John Braham, singer/composer, dies at 81 |
| 1854 | Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71 |
| 1852 | Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies |
| 1847 | William Collins, landscape painter, dies |
| 1841 | Ferdinando Carulli, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1830 | Henry Rutgers, American Soldier |
| 1827 | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81 |
| 1827 | Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator |
| 1815 | Franz Gotz, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1804 | Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1803 | Louis R E prince de Rohan-Guemene, archbisp of Straatsburg, dies at 68 |
| 1796 | James Macpherson, poet, dies |
| 1732 | Louis Marchand, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1715 | Antoine Galland, French interpreter, dies at 68 |
| 1688 | Reverend James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian |
| 1673 | Moliare, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author (Learned Lady), dies |
| 1673 | Moliere, French Playwright |
| 1654 | Michael Lohr, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1652 | Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67 |
| 1612 | Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57 |
| 1612 | Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48 |
| 1600 | Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake |
| 956 | Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55 |
| 364 | Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32 |
