| 2001 | Rosemary De Camp, actress, dies at 90 |
| 1999 | Gene Siskel, critic, Siskel and Ebert and the Movies, dies at 53 |
| 1996 | Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Toru Takemitsu, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend |
| 1994 | Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49 |
| 1993 | Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies |
| 1992 | Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51 |
| 1992 | Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63 |
| 1992 | Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66 |
| 1991 | Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician |
| 1987 | Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1986 | Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58 |
| 1985 | Clarence Nash, voice (Donald Duck), dies at 80 of leukemia, in California |
| 1984 | Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1983 | James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident |
| 1983 | Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 |
| 1980 | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, dies at 96 |
| 1978 | Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author (Presenea), dies at 76 |
| 1976 | Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies |
| 1975 | Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Robert Strauss, actor (Sergeant Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Brigitte Reimann, born in Burg bei Madgeburg, East Berlin, writer, wrote 'Franziska Linkerhand' published posthumously, dies of cancer in East Berlin, at age 39 |
| 1973 | Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1972 | Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love and Hisses), dies at 74 |
| 1970 | Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1970 | Albert Wolff, Dutch Musician |
| 1969 | Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85 |
| 1969 | Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66 |
| 1968 | Anthony Asquith, dies |
| 1966 | Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Admiral (WW II), dies at 80 |
| 1966 | Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier |
| 1964 | R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies |
| 1962 | Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78 |
| 1960 | Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies |
| 1959 | Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38 |
| 1958 | Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1946 | Hugh Allen, musician, dies |
| 1942 | Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1937 | "Barlow" Carkeek, Australia cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies |
| 1936 | John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 |
| 1920 | Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 |
| 1916 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 |
| 1911 | Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1911 | Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1910 | Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered |
| 1907 | [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 |
| 1904 | Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1895 | Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 |
| 1892 | Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 |
| 1860 | Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 |
| 1855 | Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies |
| 1851 | Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1848 | [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Netherlands/General-Major, dies at 29 |
| 1845 | Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1817 | Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1810 | Andreas Hofer, military leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 |
| 1810 | Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1809 | Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1790 | Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48 |
| 1788 | Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68 |
| 1786 | Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1773 | Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71 |
| 1746 | Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68 |
| 1737 | Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies |
| 1731 | Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1707 | Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies |
| 1667 | David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies |
| 1656 | James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76 |
| 1628 | Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63 |
| 1626 | John Dowland, composer, dies |
| 1595 | Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41 |
| 1569 | Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50 |
| 1431 | Martinus V, Oddo Colonna, Italian Pope, dies |
| 1194 | Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies |
| 1054 | Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies |
