| 2006 | Henry M. Morris, American Celebrity |
| 2005 | Peter Benenson, British Lawyer |
| 1999 | "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86 |
| 1999 | Harry Rossoll, illustrator, created Smokey Bear, dies at 89 |
| 1998 | Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 |
| 1998 | Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Tony Williams, jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51 |
| 1996 | Haing S Ngor, doctor/actor (Killing Fields), dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Vehbi Koc, indistrialist/philanthropist, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Oh Jin Woo, Korean minister of defense, dies |
| 1995 | Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Jersey Joe Walcott, boxer, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Wladyslaw Sila Lawyer Adviser to Solidarity-Nowicki, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44 |
| 1994 | Marvin J. Ashton, American Clergyman |
| 1993 | Eddie Constantine, actor (Alphaville, License to Kill), dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Jan D Boeke, Dutch organist/conductor, dies |
| 1993 | Jean G H "Sjeng" Tans, Dutch Prime Minister, social democrat, 1965 - 1969, dies |
| 1993 | John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies |
| 1993 | Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45 |
| 1992 | Guy Deghy, actor (Matter of Who, 1 Eyed Soldiers), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | John E Allen, Jr., actor (1 2 3), dies |
| 1992 | Ollie O'Toole, dies after long illness at 79 |
| 1990 | Deborra Hampton, actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30 |
| 1988 | Amapola Del Vando, actress (Cowboy), dies at 78 |
| 1987 | James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58 |
| 1983 | John Cowles Sr, U.S. publisher, dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71 |
| 1982 | J K Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies |
| 1978 | Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., retired Air Force general, dies at 58 |
| 1977 | William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer |
| 1975 | Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 78 |
| 1970 | Mark Rothko, abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), dies at 66 |
| 1969 | Jan Zajic, Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates |
| 1968 | Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), dies at 96 |
| 1967 | John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57 |
| 1964 | Alexander Archipenko, sculptor, dies |
| 1962 | Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81 |
| 1960 | Everhardus J van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51 |
| 1957 | Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1957 | Mark Aldanov, Mark A Landau, Russian/French chemist, dies at 70 |
| 1955 | Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1953 | Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1950 | George Richards Minot, American Scientist |
| 1947 | Friedrich Paschen, German physicist, dies at 82 |
| 1945 | Mario R de Morais Andrade, Brazilian poet/folklorist, dies at 51 |
| 1942 | Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1934 | Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1934 | John McGraw, manager (New York Giants), dies at 60 |
| 1925 | Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1922 | Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52 |
| 1920 | Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician, dies at 73 |
| 1915 | George Mimot, physician (Nobel-1934), dies |
| 1914 | John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 |
| 1906 | Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer and conductor c t, dies at 44 |
| 1902 | Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1901 | Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1899 | Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies |
| 1894 | James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51 |
| 1865 | Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 |
| 1852 | Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies |
| 1851 | Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1826 | Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St. Petersburg, dies at 60 |
| 1819 | Filinto Elisio, do Nascimento, Portuguese poet, dies at 84 |
| 1756 | Eliza Haywood, British Novelist |
| 1723 | Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 |
| 1719 | Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1713 | Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55 |
| 1682 | Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 |
| 1643 | Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 |
| 1634 | Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50 |
| 1634 | Van Friedland/Mecklenburg, general-admiral, dies at 50 |
| 1602 | Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51 |
| 1601 | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth |
| 1495 | Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 |
| 1247 | Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies |
| 779 | Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies |
