| 2009 | Ricardo Montalban, dies in Los Angeles, California, at 88 |
| 2004 | Ron O'Neal, actor, Superfly, dies at 66 |
| 2004 | Uta Hagen, actress/teacher, starred in original Broadway cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dies at 84 |
| 2002 | Ted Demme, director, Beautiful Girls, dies at 38 |
| 1997 | King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64 |
| 1996 | Eric Briault, educationalist, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Alexander Gibson, conductor, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Mark Finch, film festival organizer, dies at 33 |
| 1995 | Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Esther Ralston, U.S. actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Federica Montseny, anarchist and Spanish minister of Health (1936), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Elisabeth A de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98 |
| 1993 | Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (International Court of Justice), dies |
| 1992 | Hari Rhodes, actor (Earth II, Detroit 9000), dies at 59 |
| 1991 | Sallah Kharaf, Abu Iyad, co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated |
| 1990 | David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies |
| 1988 | Georgy M. Malenkov, Prime Minister of U.S.S.R. 1953 - 1955, dies at 86 |
| 1987 | Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86 |
| 1986 | Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1986 | Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter, dies at 53 |
| 1985 | Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86 |
| 1984 | Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch sexuologist (NVSH), dies at 55 |
| 1984 | Paul Ben Haim, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1984 | Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81 |
| 1978 | Blossom Rock, actress (Grandmamma-Addams Family), dies at 81 |
| 1978 | Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1977 | Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53 |
| 1977 | Anais Nin, Cuban/American writer (Delta of Venus), dies at 73 |
| 1977 | Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79 |
| 1977 | Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60 |
| 1976 | Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man, Go-Between), dies at 53 |
| 1974 | Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62 |
| 1972 | Frederik IX, Christiaan FFMKW, king of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Ethel Glenn Hier, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1970 | John J "Johnny" Murphy, U.S. baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), dies at 61 |
| 1967 | Renato Lunelli, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1966 | Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies |
| 1965 | Jeanette MacDonald, soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Gustav Regler, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81 |
| 1961 | Henry Geehl, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1957 | Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57 |
| 1956 | Siegfried F Nadel, Australia/British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52 |
| 1949 | Joaquin Turina, Spanish pianist/conductor/composer (Rima), dies at 66 |
| 1949 | Harry Stack Sullivan, American Psychologist |
| 1948 | Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 |
| 1945 | Sandor Vandor, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1944 | Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74 |
| 1943 | Adolf Sandberger, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1931 | William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies |
| 1929 | Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch Governor of Suriname (1902-05), dies at 74 |
| 1925 | Willem Devout, self employed (V and Dreesmann), dies |
| 1924 | Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72 |
| 1916 | Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73 |
| 1912 | Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant and Epigones), dies at 71 |
| 1909 | Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60 |
| 1908 | Holger Drachmann, writer, dies |
| 1907 | Karl von Perfall, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1905 | Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 |
| 1902 | Cato M Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician, dies at 65 |
| 1901 | Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent), dies at 78 |
| 1901 | Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57 |
| 1901 | Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76 |
| 1898 | Lewis Carroll, writer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65 |
| 1890 | Francesco D'Arcais, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1888 | Stephen Heller, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1887 | Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83 |
| 1887 | Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77 |
| 1868 | Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Ursatz), dies at 66 |
| 1850 | Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner, dies at 93 |
| 1847 | Governor Bent, 5 others in U.S. occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico |
| 1830 | Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59 |
| 1822 | Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72 |
| 1817 | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1802 | Marie Allard, French ballerina, dies at 59 |
| 1766 | Frederik V, king of Denmark/Norway (1746-66), dies at 42 |
| 1742 | Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85 |
| 1742 | Edmond Halley, English Scientist |
| 1676 | Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73 |
| 1648 | Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring), dies at 63 |
| 1623 | Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70 |
| 1595 | Ferdinand, archduke of Austria/mayor of Bohemenia, dies |
| 1301 | Andreas III Arpad, king of Hungary (1290-1301), dies at 50 |
| 1236 | Sava [Rastko], son of Serbia's king/saint, dies at 64 |
| 1163 | Ladislaus I Arpad, king of Hungary (1162-63), dies |
| 973 | Ekkehard I, monk of St. Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies |
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