| 2005 | Amrish Puri, Indian Actor |
| 2002 | Cyrus Vance, American Statesman |
| 2001 | William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87 |
| 2001 | William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman |
| 2001 | Lord Hailsham, British Politician |
| 1999 | Betty Lou Gerson, voice, 101 Dalmations, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 |
| 1997 | Jean Writer-Edern Hallier, dies at 60 |
| 1997 | Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86 |
| 1997 | James Laughlin, American Poet |
| 1996 | Edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50 |
| 1994 | Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1994 | Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 |
| 1992 | Harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Walt Morey, U.S. children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86 |
| 1991 | Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77 |
| 1990 | Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70 |
| 1990 | Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96 |
| 1987 | Alf Landon, American Politician |
| 1986 | Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89 |
| 1981 | Isobel Elsom, actress (Unseen, Jane Eyre, Illegal), dies at 87 |
| 1978 | Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious |
| 1977 | Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | Agatha Christie, mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85 |
| 1976 | Walter Piston, American Composer |
| 1972 | Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 |
| 1970 | Blanche Stuart Scott, U.S. pilot, dies at 84 |
| 1965 | Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. playwright, dies in New York City, dies at 34 |
| 1965 | Porcupine, in Washington D.C. zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent |
| 1964 | C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies |
| 1962 | Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 |
| 1962 | Richard de Guide, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 |
| 1958 | Arthur Shepherd, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1956 | John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 |
| 1956 | Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61 |
| 1953 | Simeon Roncal, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1950 | Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1947 | Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 |
| 1947 | Baroness Orczy, British Novelist |
| 1943 | Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 |
| 1940 | Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 |
| 1933 | Vaclav Suk, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1929 | Dietrich Schafer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at 83 |
| 1929 | Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity |
| 1928 | Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair |
| 1926 | Joseph Cannon, American Politician |
| 1925 | Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85 |
| 1916 | Percival Lowell, American Scientist |
| 1912 | John P. Jones, American Politician |
| 1900 | Henry Villard, American Journalist |
| 1887 | Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist |
| 1880 | Ida Grafin von Hahn-Hahn, author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74 |
| 1872 | Henry Alford, English Clergyman |
| 1867 | Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74 |
| 1861 | Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69 |
| 1860 | Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curaeao (christened slaves), dies at 63 |
| 1859 | Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity |
| 1856 | L'udovit Stur, Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40 |
| 1851 | Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72 |
| 1839 | Joseph A Koch, Australia painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70 |
| 1833 | Marie-Antoine Careme, author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48 |
| 1829 | Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 |
| 1829 | Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1807 | Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71 |
| 1807 | Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 |
| 1793 | Lord George Gordon, British Politician |
| 1765 | Johann Melchior Molter, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1759 | Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49 |
| 1674 | Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68 |
| 1665 | Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 |
| 1537 | Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies |
| 1519 | Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies |
| 1517 | Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41 |
| 1390 | Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 |
| 1167 | Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56 |
| 1049 | Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81 |
| 689 | Benedict Biscop, English saint, dies |
