| 2005 | Ernst Mayr, German Scientist |
| 2003 | Lana Clarkson, actress, Amazon Women on the Moon, dies at 40 |
| 1998 | Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38 |
| 1997 | Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Bohumil Hrabal, Czechoslovakian writer, storyteller, wrote hyper-realist texts, studied at Charles Univerisity in Prague, known for novels titled Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Broderick Vernon Chinnery Photographer-Haldane, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property Developer, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Tibor Reich, textile designer, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Turner Fodrell, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 66 |
| 1993 | Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69 |
| 1991 | Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 |
| 1989 | John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 |
| 1984 | Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies |
| 1984 | Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England |
| 1979 | Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies |
| 1977 | Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76 |
| 1975 | John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55 |
| 1975 | Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1973 | Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1972 | John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole), dies at 72 |
| 1969 | Eduardo C Mondlane, president of Mozambique, murdered |
| 1967 | Joe Meek, rocker (Tornados)/producer (Telstar), commits suicide |
| 1967 | Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick), dies at 72 |
| 1966 | June Walker, actress (War Nurses), dies at 65 |
| 1962 | Werner Bock, writer, dies |
| 1961 | Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54 |
| 1961 | Viscount Dunrossil, Governor-General of Australia (1959-61), dies at 67 |
| 1960 | Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at 80 |
| 1959 | Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28 |
| 1959 | Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22 |
| 1959 | Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17 |
| 1958 | Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42 |
| 1958 | Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 81 |
| 1950 | Karl Seitz, president of Austria, dies at 80 |
| 1947 | Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 |
| 1947 | Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, U.S. Lieutenant-Admiral (WW II-Task Force 58), dies at 60 |
| 1945 | Jose Rolon, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1945 | Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies |
| 1943 | Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrended his life jacket, drowns |
| 1938 | Armando Palacio Valdes, Spanish writer (El Cuarto Poder), dies at 84 |
| 1931 | Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72 |
| 1925 | Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating, dies at 51 |
| 1924 | Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67 |
| 1922 | Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 |
| 1921 | Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1909 | Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1903 | Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1902 | Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch Prime Minister 1866, dies |
| 1900 | Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1896 | Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies |
| 1890 | Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 |
| 1889 | Belle Starr, U.S. female gangster, murdered at 40 |
| 1888 | Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian |
| 1882 | Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1876 | Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 |
| 1875 | Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 |
| 1862 | Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 |
| 1853 | August Kopisch, German writer (Mauseturm), dies at 53 |
| 1846 | Joseph Weigl, Austria composer and conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 |
| 1832 | George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 |
| 1814 | Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1803 | Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79 |
| 1748 | Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1715 | Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1697 | Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island |
| 1679 | Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St. Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 |
| 1602 | Paul Melissus, Paul Schede, German poet/composer, dies at 62 |
| 1558 | Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies |
| 1536 | Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies |
| 1468 | Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies |
| 1451 | Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies |
| 1399 | John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile and Leon, dies at 58 |
| 865 | Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies |
| 474 | Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies |
