| 2007 | Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 |
| 2002 | Princess Margaret of England, royalty, dies at 71 |
| 2002 | Princess Margaret, British Royalty |
| 2001 | "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 |
| 2001 | Herbert Simon, American Scientist |
| 1998 | Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95 |
| 1997 | Barry Evans, actor (Dr. Upton-Dr. in the House), dies at 53 |
| 1996 | Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44 |
| 1996 | Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | David Wayne, Wayne Mcmeekan, U.S. actor 'Dallas', dies at 81 |
| 1995 | J. William Fulbright, Senator-D-Arkansas 1945 - 1974, dies of a stroke at 89 |
| 1994 | Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakian/U.S. soprano, 'Madame Butterfly', dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Louis Kaufman, U.S. violinist and conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54 |
| 1993 | Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76 |
| 1993 | Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies |
| 1991 | John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat |
| 1984 | Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras |
| 1984 | Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 |
| 1981 | Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55 |
| 1980 | Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106 |
| 1979 | C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies |
| 1978 | Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Florida at 12 |
| 1977 | Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92 |
| 1977 | Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59 |
| 1977 | Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82 |
| 1975 | Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60 |
| 1973 | Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53 |
| 1969 | Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Olympic-gold 1928), dies at 68 |
| 1969 | [George] Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83 |
| 1968 | Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78 |
| 1966 | Sophie Tucker, Russian/US singer and actress (My Yiddish Mama), dies at 79 |
| 1964 | Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55 |
| 1961 | Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia, dies at 70 |
| 1960 | Ernst von Dohnanyi, U.S. composer, dies at 82 |
| 1957 | Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral/regent 1920 - 1944, dies at 88 |
| 1952 | Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies |
| 1949 | Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1945 | George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau |
| 1945 | Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 |
| 1943 | ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance |
| 1938 | Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies |
| 1936 | Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57 |
| 1935 | Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61 |
| 1932 | Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered |
| 1924 | Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53 |
| 1918 | Emiel van der Straeten, Delrue, Flemish playwright, dies at 30 |
| 1916 | Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1906 | Paul Laurence Dunbar, black dialect poet, dies at 33 in Dayton, Ohio |
| 1891 | Johan B Jongkind, Dutch/French painter (Winter View), dies at 71 |
| 1881 | Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59 |
| 1881 | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist |
| 1874 | Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75 |
| 1860 | Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch milt/liberal politician, dies at 63 |
| 1849 | Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1846 | Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies |
| 1824 | Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 |
| 1817 | Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1812 | Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1811 | Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies |
| 1765 | Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1751 | Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82 |
| 1740 | Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1675 | Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1670 | Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60 |
| 1640 | Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27 |
| 1617 | Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1588 | Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies |
| 1583 | Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake |
| 1567 | Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered |
| 1555 | John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy |
