| 2005 | Gene Scott, American Clergyman |
| 2004 | Bart Howard, American Composer |
| 2003 | Tom Glazer, American Musician |
| 2002 | John Thaw, actor, Inspector Morse, dies at 60 |
| 2000 | Clifton Daniel, American Editor |
| 1997 | Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Horace Leonard Gold, science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Morton Gould, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54 |
| 1993 | Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Eva A Jessye, U.S. singer and actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 |
| 1992 | Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies |
| 1992 | Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Kate A ter Horst-Arriens, Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies |
| 1992 | William S Magginetti, dies at 98 |
| 1991 | Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Roger Swaybill, actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 |
| 1985 | Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47 |
| 1985 | Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89 |
| 1985 | Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75 |
| 1984 | Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies |
| 1980 | Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78 |
| 1979 | Ray Whitley, composer, dies |
| 1976 | Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32 |
| 1976 | Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74 |
| 1971 | Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born U.S. Olympic fencer, dies |
| 1968 | Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 |
| 1965 | Malcolm X, Little, black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39 |
| 1965 | Malcom X, American Clergyman |
| 1961 | Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Switzerland, poet, dies at 73 |
| 1956 | Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1951 | Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63 |
| 1949 | Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1948 | Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1945 | Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43 |
| 1938 | Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1938 | George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies |
| 1926 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 |
| 1925 | Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1924 | Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1919 | Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1919 | Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 |
| 1919 | Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies |
| 1919 | Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51 |
| 1901 | Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer |
| 1894 | Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45 |
| 1884 | John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1879 | Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 |
| 1876 | Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1872 | Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82 |
| 1864 | Jeffery Forrest, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1862 | Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 |
| 1852 | Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies |
| 1842 | Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1803 | Edward Despard, last person drawn and quartered in England |
| 1790 | Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1730 | Benedict XIII, Pietro F Orsini, Pope (1724-30), dies at 81 |
| 1711 | Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57 |
| 1689 | Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies |
| 1684 | Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75 |
| 1677 | [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44 |
| 1677 | Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher |
| 1653 | Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71 |
| 1648 | Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies |
| 1624 | Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28 |
| 1595 | Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged |
| 1554 | Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies |
| 1513 | Julius II, Giuliano dellea Rovere, Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 |
| 556 | Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies |
