| 2001 | Iannis Xenakis, Greek Composer |
| 2001 | J. J. Johnson, American Musician |
| 2000 | Carl Albert, politician, Speaker of the House from 1971-1977, dies at 91 |
| 2000 | Doris Kenner-Jackson, singer, Shirelles, dies at 59 |
| 1997 | James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies |
| 1995 | Patricia Highsmith, Mary Patricia Plangman, US/Swiss, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV), dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Harold Schneider, U.S. producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Fred Slyter, dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56 |
| 1992 | John Dehner, actor (Apache, Cowboy, Boys from Brazil), dies at 76 |
| 1991 | Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako: Jaws of Death), dies at 64 |
| 1989 | Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer and Jethro), dies at 69 |
| 1987 | Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67 |
| 1987 | Carl Rogers, American Psychologist |
| 1983 | Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at 68 |
| 1983 | Karen Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32 |
| 1983 | Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89 |
| 1982 | Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness), dies at 73 of a heart attack |
| 1978 | Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Edward Benjamin Britten, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1974 | Mihail Andricu, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Thelma Ritter, actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk), dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops), dies of emphysema at 70 |
| 1968 | Gerard den Brabander, Jan G Jofriet, poet (Nothing New), dies at 67 |
| 1968 | Neal Cassady, American Writer |
| 1966 | Gilbert H Grosvenor, president National Geographic Society, dies at 90 |
| 1965 | U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33 |
| 1964 | Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71 |
| 1959 | Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46 |
| 1957 | Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66 |
| 1957 | Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies |
| 1956 | Leendert A Donker, Dutch soc dem party-minister of Justice, dies at 56 |
| 1956 | Peder Gram, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1954 | Vaclav Vackar, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1953 | Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60 |
| 1946 | Margarete Boie, writer, dies |
| 1943 | Frank Calder, 1st NHL president, dies |
| 1941 | Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79 |
| 1939 | Edward Sapir, U.S. linguist/cultural antropologist (indian), dies at 55 |
| 1939 | Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72 |
| 1932 | Samuel Rutherford, lawyer, politician, businessman, jurist, Mayor of Forsyth, Georgia, served in Georgia House of Representatives, elected to 69th U.S. Congress, served for four terms, dies of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. |
| 1928 | Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74 |
| 1927 | Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1921 | Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator, dies at 75 |
| 1911 | Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 |
| 1896 | Henry David Leslie, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1895 | Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1894 | Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79 |
| 1869 | Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 |
| 1854 | Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1844 | Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49 |
| 1834 | Amelie Julia Candielle, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1816 | Meingosus Gaelle, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1815 | Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation proponent, dies at 77 |
| 1815 | Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58 |
| 1781 | Josef Myslivecek, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1781 | Willem Crul, Admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59 |
| 1746 | Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46 |
| 1714 | Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies |
| 1640 | Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies |
| 1617 | Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76 |
| 1590 | Gioseffo Zarlino, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1553 | Caspar Othmayr, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1505 | Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40 |
| 1503 | Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England, dies |
| 1222 | Willem I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies |
| 1189 | Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies |
| 856 | Hrabanus Maurus, East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies |
| 708 | Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies |
| 211 | Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64 |
