| 2006 | Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies |
| 2002 | Guy Stockwell, actor, Beau Geste, dies at 67 |
| 2000 | Deborah Laake, writer, Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond, dies at 47 |
| 1998 | Carl Wilson, rock vocalist (Beach Boy), dies of lung cancer at 51 |
| 1998 | Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister 1949, 1950 - 1951, President 1961 - 1963, dies |
| 1998 | Johann Hoelzel, Falco, singer 'Rock Me Amadeus', dies at 40 |
| 1998 | Carl Wilson, rock 'n' roller, Beach Boys, dies at 51 |
| 1998 | Falco, singer, Rock Me Amadeus, dies at 40 |
| 1996 | Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok), dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Arthur S Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65 |
| 1995 | James Ingram Merrill, U.S. poet (Braving the elements), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | James Merrill, American Poet |
| 1994 | Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Jack Kirby, cartoonist and co-creator X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Fantastic Four, and Thor, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74 |
| 1993 | Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77 |
| 1993 | Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49 |
| 1992 | Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club), dies at 37 |
| 1992 | Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Danny Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), dies of a heart attack at 79 |
| 1991 | Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies |
| 1990 | Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94 |
| 1990 | John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies |
| 1989 | Andre Cayatte, dies |
| 1989 | Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life), dies of TB at 64 |
| 1988 | Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies |
| 1986 | William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness), dies |
| 1985 | Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Captain Newman), dies at 53 |
| 1985 | Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78 |
| 1982 | Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle), dies at 87 |
| 1979 | Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47 |
| 1979 | Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies at 68 |
| 1976 | Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials), dies at 43 |
| 1973 | Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer (Mount Wilson/Palomar), dies at 74 |
| 1972 | Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70 |
| 1970 | Roscoe Karns, actor (Captain Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78 |
| 1968 | C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85 |
| 1967 | Martine Carol, French actress (Nana), dies of heart attack at 46 |
| 1966 | Johan Algot Haquinius, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Jack Wagner, actor (Jive Junction), dies at 68 |
| 1964 | Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51), dies at 69 |
| 1964 | W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests vs. New Zealand 1930), dies |
| 1964 | Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino Statesman |
| 1963 | Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies |
| 1963 | Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77 |
| 1961 | Archibald T Davison, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1960 | Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1958 | 7 soccer players of Manchester United, die in an aircrash at Munich |
| 1954 | Maxwell Bodenheim, American Poet |
| 1952 | George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56 |
| 1952 | King George VI, British Royalty |
| 1948 | Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38 |
| 1947 | Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82 |
| 1947 | Luigi Russolo, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1947 | Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician |
| 1945 | Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1945 | Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at 71 |
| 1942 | Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78 |
| 1941 | Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82 |
| 1938 | Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss house painter, dies at 77 |
| 1930 | Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17 |
| 1927 | Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71 |
| 1923 | Edward E Barnard, U.S. astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65 |
| 1923 | Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist |
| 1919 | Friedrich W. Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter, dies at 81 |
| 1918 | Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55 |
| 1917 | Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist, dies at 72 |
| 1916 | Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73 |
| 1914 | J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69 |
| 1899 | Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 |
| 1897 | Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable), dies |
| 1896 | Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector, dies at 82 |
| 1881 | Pieter Mijer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1866-72), dies at 68 |
| 1865 | John Pegram, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 |
| 1859 | Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1812 | Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104 |
| 1804 | Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70 |
| 1798 | Niels Schiorring, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1793 | Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 |
| 1785 | Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83), dies at 48 |
| 1783 | Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67 |
| 1725 | Johann Philipp Krieger, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1699 | Jozef Ferdinand of Bavaria, heir of Spanish king Carlos II, dies |
| 1695 | Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies |
| 1617 | Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63 |
| 1612 | Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1497 | John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79 |
| 1140 | Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies |
| 891 | Photius, Byzantine theologist/patriarch of Constantinople/saint, dies |
| 743 | Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52 |
