| 2001 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer/pilot, ", Gift from the Sea, ", dies at 94 |
| 2001 | Dale Evans, actress, dies at 88 |
| 2000 | Doug Henning, magician, dies at 52 |
| 2000 | Dave Peverett, rocker, singer, guitarist, founded, sang and played rhythm guitar for Foghat dies |
| 1999 | Bobby Troup, actor/songwriter, Emergency!, dies at 80 |
| 1999 | King Hussein, Jordanian king, dies at 63 |
| 1998 | Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51 |
| 1998 | Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist |
| 1997 | Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Richard Bissell, U.S. under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer and pneumonia at 87 |
| 1991 | Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75 |
| 1991 | Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87 |
| 1990 | Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies |
| 1990 | Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77 |
| 1990 | Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia |
| 1990 | Alan Perlis, American Scientist |
| 1988 | Lin[wood V] Carter, U.S., sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57 |
| 1987 | David Savoy, Jr., rock manager (Husker Du), commits suicide at 24 |
| 1986 | Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81 |
| 1985 | Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies |
| 1984 | Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1980 | Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73 |
| 1979 | Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns |
| 1977 | Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82 |
| 1975 | Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54 |
| 1974 | Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61 |
| 1969 | Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1968 | Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36 |
| 1968 | Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49 |
| 1967 | Henry Morgenthau, U.S. minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90 |
| 1964 | Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77 |
| 1964 | Lillian Copeland, U.S. discus thrower, Gold Medal 1932 Olympics, Silver Medal 1928 Olympics, dies at 59 |
| 1960 | Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57 |
| 1959 | Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84 |
| 1959 | Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83 |
| 1959 | Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32 |
| 1958 | Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76 |
| 1957 | Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1954 | Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1948 | "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies |
| 1942 | Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner, Gold Medal 1908 Olympics, dies at 56 |
| 1937 | Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91 |
| 1933 | Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education, dies at 86 |
| 1921 | Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78 |
| 1920 | Alexander Koltsjak, Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed |
| 1918 | Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1915 | Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1901 | Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1897 | Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 |
| 1881 | Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 |
| 1878 | Pius IX, "Pio Nono", Giovanni Ferretti, Pope (1846-78), dies at 85 |
| 1865 | John Henry Winder, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at 64 |
| 1862 | Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1857 | Felix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 |
| 1830 | Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67 |
| 1827 | Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1823 | Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 |
| 1823 | Ann Radcliffe, English Author |
| 1820 | Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1779 | William Boyce, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1749 | Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1743 | Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1609 | Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies |
| 1593 | Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 |
| 590 | Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague |
