| 2009 | Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster and news commentator, 'The Rest of the Story' |
| 2007 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power |
| 2003 | Chris Brasher, British Athlete |
| 2002 | Mary Stuart, long-time soap star, Search for Tomorrow, dies at 76 |
| 2001 | Roger Caras, American Activist |
| 1996 | Daniel Chipenda, angolam politician, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Buster Holmes, chef/restaurateur, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Elbert "Skippy" Williams, tenor Sax player, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies |
| 1993 | Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread and Chocolate), dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Joyce Carey, Lawrence, English actress (Number 27), dies at 94 |
| 1993 | Ruby Keeler, actress (42nd Street, Dames), dies of cancer at 82 |
| 1992 | Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek), dies at 49 |
| 1992 | Emilla Sherman, choreographer/rockette, dies |
| 1992 | La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53 |
| 1991 | Guillermo Ungo, member of El Salvador junta (1979-80), dies |
| 1990 | Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86 |
| 1989 | Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland |
| 1988 | Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanese playwright, dies at 99 |
| 1987 | Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Nora Kaye, U.S. ballet dancer, dies at 67 |
| 1986 | Sven Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister 1969 - 1976, 1982 - 1986, assassinated at 59 |
| 1985 | Charita Bauer, actress (Mary-Aldrich Family), dies at 62 in New York City |
| 1979 | Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52 |
| 1979 | Mr Ed, talking horse, dies |
| 1978 | Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73 |
| 1978 | Philip Ahn, Los Angeles California, actor (Master Kan-Kung Fu), dies at 66 |
| 1977 | Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89 |
| 1973 | Cecil Kellaway, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Hope Landin, actress (I Remember Mama, Sugarfoot), dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Victor Barna, table tennis champ, dies |
| 1968 | Doretta Morrow, actress (Because You're Mine), dies at 41 |
| 1968 | Frankie Lymon, singer, dies at 25 |
| 1968 | Juanita Hall, actress (Captain Billy), dies at 66 |
| 1966 | Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet |
| 1966 | Elliot McKay See, Jr., astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash |
| 1965 | Adolf Scharf, president of Austria (1957-65), dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78 |
| 1963 | Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58 |
| 1963 | Rajendra Prasad, Indian Statesman |
| 1962 | Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70 |
| 1961 | Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64 |
| 1960 | F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74 |
| 1960 | Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68 |
| 1959 | Maxwell Anderson, U.S. dramatist (Key Largo, Bath Seed), dies at 70 |
| 1953 | Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64 |
| 1949 | Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1940 | Alfonso XIII de Borbon, corrupt king of Spain (1902-31), dies |
| 1940 | Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81 |
| 1936 | Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55 |
| 1935 | Alexander W. F. Idenburg, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1909-16), dies at 73 |
| 1931 | Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness |
| 1929 | Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54 |
| 1929 | John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1925 | Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies |
| 1922 | Vicente Lleo, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1916 | Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 |
| 1913 | Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic) |
| 1912 | Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies |
| 1905 | Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85 |
| 1903 | Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88 |
| 1876 | Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1869 | Alphonse de Lamartine, French Poet |
| 1844 | Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton |
| 1844 | Thommas W. Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton |
| 1818 | Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56 |
| 1796 | Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1784 | Phillis Wheatly, poet, dies |
| 1781 | Richard Stockton, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50 |
| 1742 | Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist, dies at 53 |
| 1737 | Hercule Brehy, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1665 | Lodewijk van Nassau, Dutch governor (Bois-le-Duc), dies |
| 1638 | Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/poet, dies at 56 |
| 1638 | Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies |
| 1626 | Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 |
| 1618 | Filips Willem, Prince of Orange, dies at 63 |
| 1609 | Paul Sartorius, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1573 | Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54 |
| 1261 | Hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies |
