| 2004 | Spalding Gray, actor/writer, Swimming to Cambodia, dies at 62 |
| 2004 | Alexandra Ripley, American Writer |
| 2001 | John G. Schmitz, American Politician |
| 2000 | Marguerite Churchill, actress, in Broadway's Dinner at Eight, dies at 90 |
| 1997 | Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window |
| 1997 | Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96 |
| 1997 | George Young, footballer, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan Writer |
| 1996 | Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies |
| 1994 | Catharina I "Ien" Dales, Minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62 |
| 1994 | Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball President (National League), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73 |
| 1993 | Diana Adams, ballerina, dies |
| 1993 | Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death |
| 1992 | Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89 |
| 1991 | Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1990 | Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42 |
| 1990 | Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies |
| 1986 | Joseph Kraft, U.S. columnist, dies at 61 |
| 1984 | Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1982 | Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55 |
| 1981 | Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63 |
| 1980 | George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Don Gillis, U.S. composer (Symphony #5 ), dies at 65 |
| 1978 | John D Rockefeller III, U.S. billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 |
| 1978 | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua |
| 1978 | Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62 |
| 1976 | Chester Arthur Burnett, U.S. blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Howlin' Wolf, singer and guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65 |
| 1972 | Al Goodman, Russian/US orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68 |
| 1972 | Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1971 | Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 |
| 1970 | Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 |
| 1970 | Charles Olson, American Poet |
| 1968 | Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 |
| 1968 | Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74 |
| 1968 | Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1968 | Louis-Franeois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90 |
| 1968 | Theophilus E Donges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 |
| 1967 | Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1966 | Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69 |
| 1964 | A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 |
| 1963 | Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1961 | Dashiell Hammett, U.S. detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66 |
| 1958 | Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52 |
| 1957 | Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 |
| 1956 | Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84 |
| 1956 | Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64 |
| 1955 | Joseph McCabe, English Writer |
| 1954 | Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1953 | Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56 |
| 1951 | Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1951 | Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65 |
| 1951 | Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1943 | Agustin P Justo y Rolon, President Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 |
| 1943 | J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83 |
| 1941 | Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61 |
| 1941 | Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67 |
| 1939 | Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50 |
| 1939 | Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64 |
| 1938 | Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68 |
| 1934 | Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 |
| 1927 | August(us) Alleb, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88 |
| 1917 | Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies |
| 1908 | Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65 |
| 1899 | Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69 |
| 1895 | Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1892 | Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1889 | Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1876 | Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70 |
| 1871 | Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 |
| 1865 | Lyman Beecher, American Clergyman |
| 1862 | Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47 |
| 1855 | Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 |
| 1846 | Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75 |
| 1833 | Adrien Marie Legendre, dies |
| 1833 | Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1824 | Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64 |
| 1811 | Marie-Joseph de Chenier, French poet (Chant du Depart), dies at 46 |
| 1800 | Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1792 | Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1789 | Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82 |
| 1780 | Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 |
| 1778 | Carolus Linaeus "Carl von Linne", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70 |
| 1775 | Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies |
| 1768 | Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82 |
| 1754 | Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51 |
| 1674 | Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84 |
| 1645 | William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 |
| 1542 | Gerardus Noviomagus, Gerrit Geldenhauer, Dutch theologist, die at 59 |
| 1271 | Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies |
| 976 | John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 |
| 866 | Lin-chi I-hsuan, J Rinzai Gigen, Zen teacher, dies |
| 681 | Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies |
