| 2002 | Chuck Jones, animator, Wyle E. Coyote and the Road Runner, dies at 90 |
| 1998 | Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies |
| 1998 | Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28 |
| 1998 | Abraham A. Ribicoff, Senator-D-Connecticut 1963 - 1981, Governor of Connecticut 1955 - 1961 |
| 1997 | Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphall-St. Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60 |
| 1995 | Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies |
| 1994 | "Papa" John Creach, U.S. jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76 |
| 1993 | Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Richard Sheldon, dies at 59 |
| 1990 | Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies |
| 1989 | Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies |
| 1987 | Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58 |
| 1987 | David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66 |
| 1987 | Glenway Wescott, U.S. writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85 |
| 1985 | Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95 |
| 1984 | David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, dies at 12 |
| 1983 | Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75 |
| 1983 | Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at 70 |
| 1982 | Murray "the K" Kaufman, New York City DJ (5th Beatle), dies at 60 |
| 1980 | Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), dies at 66 |
| 1980 | Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 |
| 1980 | Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), dies at 46 |
| 1978 | Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), dies at 74 |
| 1978 | Phyllis McGinley, U.S. poet (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72 |
| 1977 | Edith Barrett, actress (Molly and Me, Ghost Ship), dies at 64 |
| 1976 | Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a heart attack at 32 |
| 1976 | Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 |
| 1973 | Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 |
| 1973 | Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Winthrop Rockefeller, U.S. governor (Arkansas), dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 81 |
| 1971 | Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), dies at 77 |
| 1971 | Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1968 | Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 |
| 1967 | Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), dies at 70 |
| 1966 | Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Felix Frankfurter, American Judge |
| 1964 | Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), dies at 84 |
| 1961 | George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, dies at 75 |
| 1960 | Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86 |
| 1959 | Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), dies of cancer at 36 |
| 1958 | Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash |
| 1957 | Harry Sothern, actor (Dr. Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72 |
| 1956 | Paul Leautaud, Maurice Boissard, French writer (Petit ami), dies at 84 |
| 1949 | Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies |
| 1943 | Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies |
| 1943 | Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 |
| 1943 | Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded |
| 1939 | Antonio Machado, Spanish Poet |
| 1936 | Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74 |
| 1934 | Willem Kes, violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 78 |
| 1930 | Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66 |
| 1925 | Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, dies at 72 |
| 1925 | Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies |
| 1925 | Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88 |
| 1913 | Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, dies at 55 |
| 1913 | Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican president, assassinated in military coup at 39 |
| 1913 | Suarez, Mexican vice president, assassinated in a miltary coup |
| 1912 | Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), dies at 76 |
| 1903 | Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies |
| 1903 | Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42 |
| 1896 | Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton |
| 1878 | Franz Hunten, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1875 | Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 |
| 1849 | Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28 |
| 1846 | Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1846 | Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 |
| 1838 | Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1836 | John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1832 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany |
| 1829 | Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53 |
| 1822 | Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1816 | Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92 |
| 1788 | Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1770 | Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution |
| 1750 | Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1732 | Francis Atterbury, English Politician |
| 1731 | Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, dies at 92 |
| 1727 | Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1690 | Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), dies at 70 |
| 1687 | Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer |
| 1674 | John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1512 | Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60 |
| 1478 | Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit), dies |
| 1371 | David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), dies at 46 |
| 1213 | Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers, dies |
| 1078 | Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies |
| 1078 | John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies |
| 1071 | Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle |
| 606 | Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies |
