| 2009 | Patrick McGoohan, dies in Santa Monica, California, after a brief illness, at 80 |
| 1997 | William Mills, painter, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Denise Grey, Edouardine Verthuy, actress 'Julietta', dies at 99 |
| 1996 | Willian Myuon Bany Guerrilla leader, dies |
| 1995 | Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Arthur Mervyn Stockwood, bishop, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Ruby Starr, vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44 |
| 1994 | Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Johan J Holst, Norwegian Minister of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56 |
| 1993 | Rene Pleven, Prime Minister of France 1950 - 1951, 1951 - 1952, dies |
| 1992 | Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies |
| 1992 | Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66 |
| 1989 | Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 |
| 1988 | Chiang Ching-huo, president of Taiwan (1978-88), dies at 69 |
| 1987 | E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/co-founder (Trouw, Loyal), dies |
| 1986 | Abdel Fattah Ismail, president of South-Yemen (19??-80), murdered |
| 1985 | Carol Wayne, Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies at 42 |
| 1983 | Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver-Lassie), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1983 | D Mack Reynolds, U.S. writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies |
| 1983 | Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at 71 |
| 1983 | John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69 |
| 1982 | Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69 |
| 1981 | Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83 |
| 1980 | Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78 |
| 1979 | Donny Hathaway, Chicago, Illinois, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 |
| 1978 | Hubert Humphrey, Senator-D-Minnesota 1949 - 1964 and 1971 - 1978, 38th Vice President 1965 - 1969, dies at 66 in Waverly, Minnesota |
| 1978 | Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (New York Yankees), dies at 96 |
| 1978 | Hubert H. Humphrey, American Politician |
| 1976 | Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53 |
| 1971 | Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding, Germ SS-gen/contractor (Tulle), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de Manara), dies at 69 |
| 1971 | Robert Still, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1969 | Fred Price, cricket wicket-keep (England, vs. Australia Headingley 1938), dies |
| 1969 | Wilton Graff, actor (Bloodlust, Just Before Dawn), dies at 65 |
| 1968 | Bill Masterson, (Minn Northstars), checked into the boards and killed |
| 1963 | Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 76 |
| 1962 | Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 |
| 1960 | Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83 |
| 1958 | Edna Purviance, actress (Charlie Chaplin, Sunnyside), dies at 61 |
| 1958 | John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75 |
| 1954 | Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1953 | Edward Marsh, British Editor |
| 1947 | Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61 |
| 1945 | Margaret Deland, American Novelist |
| 1943 | Sophie Taeuber/Tauber-Arp, Swiss sculptor, dies at 53 |
| 1941 | James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58 |
| 1939 | Jacob Ruppert, CEO (New York Yankees, 1915-39), dies |
| 1936 | Edward Rell Madigan, Representative-R-Illinois 1973 - 1983 |
| 1934 | Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier and explorer in Sudan, dies at 70 |
| 1930 | C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66 |
| 1929 | Wyatt Earp, U.S. marshall (OK Corral), dies at 80 |
| 1928 | Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57 |
| 1924 | Georg H Quincke, German physicist (Test of Quincke), dies at 89 |
| 1914 | Bernardus H Heldt, Dutch MP, dies at 72 |
| 1914 | Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76 |
| 1913 | Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44 |
| 1901 | Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1892 | Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1879 | WF Hendrik the Navigator, prince of Netherlands/viceroy of Lux, dies at 58 |
| 1867 | Victor Cousin, French Philosopher |
| 1864 | Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY |
| 1838 | Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1828 | Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1797 | Elisabeth C von Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederick II, dies at 81 |
| 1795 | Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1762 | Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1702 | Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41 |
| 1691 | George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66 |
| 1682 | Simon van Leeuwen, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 55 |
| 1651 | Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86 |
| 1625 | Pieter Bruegel "the Older", (Bloemenbruegel), Flemish painter, dies |
| 1599 | Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46 |
| 1488 | Hermann Vischer, "the Old", buried |
| 1330 | Frederick (III), the Handsome, duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies |
| 1307 | Arnoud van Foreest, Dom deacon of Utrecht, dies |
| 1177 | Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg, Duke of Austria, dies |
| 1049 | Derrick IV, Count of Holland (1039-49), dies in battle |
| 888 | Charles III, the Fat One, King of Franconia/Roman emperor, dies |
| 858 | Aethelwolf, king of Wessex (Battle at Aclea), dies |
| 533 | Remigius van Reims, 1st bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, dies about 96 |
