| 2007 | Bruce Bennett, dies in Santa Monica, California, from complications of a broken hip, at 100 |
| 2004 | John Randolph, actor, Prizzi's Honor, dies at 88 |
| 1999 | Andre Dubus, American Writer |
| 1998 | Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92 |
| 1998 | Henny Youngman, comedian, ", Take My Wife, Please!: Henny Youngman's Giant Book of Jokes, ", dies at 91 |
| 1998 | Henry Youngman, American Comedian |
| 1997 | Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress and singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday |
| 1996 | James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95 |
| 1996 | Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76 |
| 1994 | Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96 |
| 1993 | Bobby Moore, English soccer team captain (World champs 1966), dies |
| 1993 | Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45 |
| 1992 | Kay Loring, dies after long illness |
| 1991 | George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74 |
| 1991 | Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68 |
| 1991 | Webb Pierce, U.S. country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1990 | Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61 |
| 1990 | Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70 |
| 1990 | Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93 |
| 1990 | Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45 |
| 1990 | Malcolm S. Forbes, American Publisher |
| 1989 | Norris Cotton, American Politician |
| 1988 | Irwan Chanin, U.S. theater builder, dies at 96 |
| 1986 | Tommy Douglas, Canadian Clergyman |
| 1984 | Uwe Johnson, writer, scholar, editor, dies at 59 |
| 1983 | Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1982 | Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71 |
| 1976 | Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1976 | H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85 |
| 1975 | Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of U.S.S.R. (1955-58), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73 |
| 1970 | Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61 |
| 1967 | Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60 |
| 1964 | Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76 |
| 1964 | Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher |
| 1961 | Leon Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (Pedagogie en Cours), dies at 77 |
| 1960 | Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86 |
| 1953 | Karl R G von Rundstedt, German General-Field Marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77 |
| 1953 | Robert M. La Follette, American Politician |
| 1953 | Gerd von Rundstedt, German Soldier |
| 1945 | Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament |
| 1944 | Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80 |
| 1941 | Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 |
| 1933 | Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64 |
| 1930 | Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74 |
| 1929 | Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1926 | Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51 |
| 1925 | Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman |
| 1924 | Edmond Picard, French writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87 |
| 1922 | Alfred Espinas, French sociologist (Societes Animales), dies at 77 |
| 1922 | Dmitri B Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies |
| 1919 | Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1914 | Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier |
| 1908 | Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1907 | Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1895 | Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1876 | Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67 |
| 1874 | Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1874 | John Bachman, American Clergyman |
| 1871 | Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher, dies at 73 |
| 1862 | Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72 |
| 1848 | Frans van Campenhout, Belgian singer/composer (Brabaneonne), dies at 69 |
| 1836 | Daniel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies at 59 |
| 1829 | Auguste Chouteau, St. Louis co-founder, dies |
| 1825 | Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies |
| 1815 | Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies |
| 1812 | Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61 |
| 1810 | Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies |
| 1806 | John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 |
| 1799 | Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41 |
| 1799 | Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 |
| 1785 | Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39 |
| 1784 | Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1735 | Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1704 | Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies |
| 1692 | Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1686 | Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 |
| 1666 | Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1642 | Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 |
| 1624 | Vicente Espinel, Sp adventure/chaplain (Marcos de Obregon), dies at 72 |
| 1563 | Francois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44 |
