| 2008 | Earl Butz, dies in Washington, D.C., in his sleep, at 98 |
| 2008 | Joshua Lederberg, dies in New York, of pneumonia, at 82 |
| 2004 | Alan Bullock, British Historian |
| 2002 | Claude Brown, American Writer |
| 1997 | Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40 |
| 1997 | Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Gene Kelly, actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Shamus Culhane, animator, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Conde, French prince/Russian, dies at 47 |
| 1995 | Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80 |
| 1995 | David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies |
| 1995 | Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32 |
| 1994 | John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95 |
| 1993 | Francois Reichenbach, French director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Bert Parks, Jacobson, TV host (Miss America), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Maurice J Hill, writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89 |
| 1992 | Maurice L Kusell, dies |
| 1990 | Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Aaron Copland, American Composer |
| 1989 | John Cassavetes, U.S. actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59 |
| 1988 | Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51 |
| 1988 | G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit |
| 1987 | Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78 |
| 1987 | Patrick "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78 |
| 1987 | Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist |
| 1983 | Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide |
| 1983 | Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies |
| 1982 | Stringfellow Barr, U.S. educationalist (100 Great Books), dies at 85 |
| 1981 | Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88 |
| 1981 | Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89 |
| 1981 | Louise Lorraine, actress (Adventures of Tarzan), dies |
| 1980 | William H Stein, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68 |
| 1980 | William Howard Stein, American Scientist |
| 1979 | Sid Vicious, John Simon Ritchie, bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 31 |
| 1978 | Wendy Barrie, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Harry Elliott, England cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests 1927-34), dies |
| 1976 | Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78 |
| 1976 | Maurice Jacobson, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1974 | Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Benedictions), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70 |
| 1972 | Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67 |
| 1972 | Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author |
| 1970 | Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97 |
| 1970 | Jaroslav Vogel, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1969 | Boris Karloff, Pratt, British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81 |
| 1969 | Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (New York Met), dies at 83 |
| 1965 | Richard P Blackmur, U.S., critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61 |
| 1965 | Richard Wurz, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1963 | Herman Bouber, Blom, actor and playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77 |
| 1961 | Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1961 | Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56 |
| 1960 | Jeno Huszka, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1957 | Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75 |
| 1957 | Julia Morgan, American Architect |
| 1956 | Charley Grapewin, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 86 |
| 1954 | Theodor Rogalski, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1953 | Gustav Strube, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1952 | Charles De Roche, actor (10 Commandments), dies at 72 |
| 1952 | Johann Babtist Thaller, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1945 | Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60 |
| 1941 | Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1934 | Ernesto Nazareth, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1931 | Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71 |
| 1929 | Albert Steinruck, German actor (Golem), dies at 56 |
| 1925 | Antti Aarne, Finnish sociologist, dies at 57 |
| 1921 | Luigi Mancinelli, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1919 | Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1918 | John L Sullivan, Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59 |
| 1909 | Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 |
| 1907 | Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72 |
| 1902 | Emanuil Mandlov, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1882 | Fabio Campana, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1881 | Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 |
| 1864 | Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet |
| 1852 | Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49 |
| 1828 | Frederik Sigismund earl of Bylandt, Vice-Admiral, dies at 78 |
| 1827 | Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1822 | Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1804 | Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 |
| 1793 | William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61 |
| 1789 | Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63 |
| 1779 | Georg Philipp Kress, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1769 | Clement XIII, Carlo Rezzonico, Pope (1758-69), dies at 75 |
| 1750 | Johann Graf, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1723 | Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66 |
| 1704 | Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62 |
| 1685 | Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54 |
| 1673 | Kaspar Forster, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1660 | Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45 |
| 1660 | Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51 |
| 1597 | Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61 |
| 1594 | Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68 |
| 1563 | Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54 |
| 1540 | George Schenck van Toutenburg, gov/viceroy of Frisia/Groningen |
| 1491 | Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40 |
| 1435 | Johanna II, lawless Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61 |
| 1032 | Rudolf III, last independent king of Bourgundy, dies |
