| 2008 | Janez Drnovsek, dies in Slovenia, of cancer, at 57 |
| 2004 | Carl Anderson, actor/singer, ", Jesus Christ, Superstar, ", dies at 58 |
| 2003 | Christopher Hill, English Historian |
| 2003 | John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian |
| 2002 | Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65 |
| 2000 | Ofra Haza, singer, Prince of Egypt, dies at 43 |
| 1998 | Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward-FBI), dies at 74 |
| 1998 | Philip Abbott, actor, The FBI, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80 |
| 1997 | Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51 |
| 1996 | Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut and wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies |
| 1996 | George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | James Herriot, Scottish author (All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Norman Hunter, writer, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40 |
| 1993 | Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33 |
| 1992 | Jacquelyn Hyde, actress (Dark, House of Terror), dies at 61 |
| 1992 | Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies |
| 1990 | Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 |
| 1990 | James Gavin, commandant U.S. 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62 |
| 1990 | James M. Gavin, American Scientist |
| 1987 | Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80 |
| 1985 | Alexander Scourby, actor (Jesus, Shaggy Dog, Giant), dies at 71 |
| 1983 | Adrian Boult, conductor, dies |
| 1980 | Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62 |
| 1976 | Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy Joe), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | L S Lowry, painter, dies |
| 1974 | Florence Rice, actress (Girl in 1313, Carnival), dies at 63 |
| 1972 | Michael Taube, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1971 | King Lockwood, dies of stroke at 73 |
| 1969 | Abd al-Aziz Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, King Saudia, dies at 67 |
| 1969 | Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Edna Ferber, U.S. author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80 |
| 1968 | Fannie Hurst, U.S. author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 |
| 1965 | Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel and Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1961 | Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies |
| 1955 | Paul Claudel, French poet/playwright (L'otage), dies at 86 |
| 1945 | Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62 |
| 1945 | Aubrey Cousins, Canadian sergeant (Victoria Cross), dies in battle |
| 1944 | Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies |
| 1942 | Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Die Welt von Gestern), dies at 60 |
| 1935 | Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44 |
| 1934 | Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by National Guard |
| 1934 | Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76 |
| 1934 | Edward Elgar, British Composer |
| 1931 | Nellie Melba, Helen Mitchell, Australian soprano, dies |
| 1930 | Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22 |
| 1930 | Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35 |
| 1927 | Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1924 | Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President (1913-21), dies |
| 1920 | Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1916 | George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1915 | Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC |
| 1906 | Johann Hoch, U.S. murderer, executed |
| 1903 | Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1903 | Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1902 | Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72 |
| 1900 | William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies |
| 1900 | Ernest Dowson, English Poet |
| 1897 | Woldemar Bargiel, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1884 | Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attaction, dies at 23 |
| 1867 | George Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1855 | Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, dies |
| 1848 | John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1825 - 1829, dies of a stroke at 80 |
| 1828 | Mihaly Fazekar, Hungarian botanist/literary (Book of Spices), dies |
| 1821 | John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome |
| 1821 | John Keats, writer, dies at 25 |
| 1821 | Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies |
| 1807 | Francois Guichard, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1806 | John Alcock, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1797 | Antoine d'Auvergne, French opera composer (Coquette Trompee), dies at 83 |
| 1792 | Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68 |
| 1766 | Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies |
| 1718 | Francois Fagel, Dutch field marshal/mayor of Nimegen, dies at 63 |
| 1704 | Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 |
| 1682 | Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75 |
| 1669 | Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68 |
| 1662 | Johann Cruger, German organist/composer/music theorist, dies at 63 |
| 1660 | Charles X. Gustaaf, king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37 |
| 1607 | Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60 |
| 1554 | Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed |
| 1468 | John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies |
| 1447 | Eugene IV, Gabriele Condulmer, Italian Pope (1431-47), dies |
| 155 | Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake |
