| 2008 | Edmund Hillary, dies of heart failure at age 88 |
| 2008 | Carl Karcher, dies in Fullerton, California, of Parkinson's disease, at 90 |
| 2003 | Maurice Gibb, singer/songwriter, the Bee Gees, dies at 53 |
| 2001 | Michael Williams, supporting actor, Educating Rita, dies at 65 |
| 2000 | Bob Lemon, American Athlete |
| 2000 | Phillip Carrick, cricketer, athlete, dies |
| 1999 | Brian Moore, writer, The Secret Passion of Judith Hearn, dies at 77 |
| 1998 | Klaus Tennstedt, conductor, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97 |
| 1997 | Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96>> |
| 1996 | Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Ike Isaacs, guitarist, played jazz, known for work with Stephane Grappelli, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Adrian J "Ad" Kaland, Dutch MP (CDA 1977-93), dies at 72 |
| 1995 | John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Onat Kutlar, Turkish screenplay/producer (Hazal), murdered at 59 |
| 1995 | Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist (Concert Building), dies at 76 |
| 1994 | John Bradley, raised U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50 |
| 1991 | Jason Christmas, dies of gunshot wound during robbery in New York at 49 |
| 1991 | Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist |
| 1990 | Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies |
| 1988 | Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer |
| 1988 | Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89 |
| 1988 | Pappy Boyington, American Soldier |
| 1984 | Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1984 | Jack La Rue, TV narrator (Lights Out), dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Nikolaj V Podgorny, president U.S.S.R., dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 88 |
| 1979 | Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63 |
| 1978 | Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt and Pepper), dies at 57 |
| 1973 | Isabel Randolph, actress (Missing Corpse), dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday |
| 1966 | Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64 |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian premier (1964-66), dies at 61 |
| 1966 | Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist |
| 1963 | Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60 |
| 1960 | Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at 84 |
| 1959 | Mohammed Zakaria Ghonein, discoverer of 6,000 yr old pyramid, dies |
| 1958 | Alec Rowley, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1955 | Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 |
| 1954 | Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77 |
| 1954 | Emmy Arbous, Dutch actress/cabaret performer (Boefje), dies at 56 |
| 1954 | Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83 |
| 1953 | Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53 |
| 1953 | Marcel Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 58 |
| 1953 | Noach Zjordanija, Georgian Premier (1918-21), dies at 84 |
| 1952 | Jean JM de Lattre de Tassigny, General (N-Africa/Indo-China), dies at 61 |
| 1950 | Karin Michaelis, writer, dies at 77 |
| 1945 | Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 |
| 1944 | Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies |
| 1944 | Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician |
| 1943 | Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered |
| 1943 | Arthur Guiterman, American Comedian |
| 1931 | Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1929 | Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28 |
| 1928 | Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87 |
| 1923 | Constantine I, king of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), dies at 54 |
| 1914 | Ambrose Bierce, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1901 | Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1900 | James Martineau, English Philosopher |
| 1898 | Gaetano Capocci, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1893 | Benjamin F Butler, U.S. gen/president candidate (anti-monopoly), dies at 74 |
| 1891 | Georges-Eugene Haussmann, French senator/baron, dies at 81 |
| 1877 | Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1870 | Adolf Ganz, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1856 | Nikolai I Nadezjdin, Russian archaeologist, dies |
| 1847 | Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 |
| 1843 | Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner), dies at 63 |
| 1837 | Francois Gerard, French baron/painter, dies at 66 |
| 1837 | John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 |
| 1801 | Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51 |
| 1797 | Francis Lightfoot Lee, U.S. farmer, signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 |
| 1784 | Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1775 | Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia |
| 1771 | Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66 |
| 1753 | Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92 |
| 1674 | Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Brutal-Roffel), dies at 58 |
| 1650 | Paul Hallman, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1641 | Franciscus Gomarus, Francois Gomaer, French theologist, dies |
| 1552 | Johannes Cochlaeus, Dobeneck, German humanist/theologist, dies |
| 1055 | Constantine IX Monomachos, emperor of Byzantium, dies |
| 705 | John VI, Catholic Pope (701-05), dies |
