| 2008 | Brad Renfro, dies in Los Angeles, California, of an overdose, at 25 |
| 2005 | Ruth Warrick, American Musician |
| 2004 | Olivia Goldsmith, writer, The First Wives Club, dies at 54 |
| 2000 | Fran Ryan, actress, Green Acres, dies at 83 |
| 2000 | Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian Criminal |
| 1998 | Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63 |
| 1998 | Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies |
| 1998 | Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63 |
| 1997 | Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82 |
| 1997 | Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Les Baxter, singer/orchestral leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51 |
| 1996 | Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61 |
| 1994 | Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68 |
| 1993 | Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51 |
| 1993 | Sammy Cahn, Cohen, U.S. songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schon), dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66 |
| 1988 | Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 |
| 1987 | Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69 |
| 1987 | Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83 |
| 1986 | James H "Jim" Crowley, U.S. football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 |
| 1983 | Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Florida at 80 |
| 1983 | Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1982 | Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 |
| 1981 | Emanuel Celler, Representative-D-New York 1923 - 1973, dies at 92 |
| 1978 | Margaret Bowman and Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy |
| 1974 | Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68 |
| 1972 | Daisy Ashford, English witer, wrote 'The Young Sisters', dies |
| 1971 | John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50 |
| 1969 | Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82 |
| 1968 | Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies |
| 1968 | John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 |
| 1968 | Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion and Relativity), dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Betsy Mitchell, U.S. 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25 |
| 1965 | Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered |
| 1964 | Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, U.S. jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58 |
| 1962 | Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1961 | Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1955 | Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies |
| 1953 | Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1949 | Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63 |
| 1948 | Josephus Daniels, American Politician |
| 1942 | Mel Sheppard, runner, 4 Gold Medals 1908, 1912 Olympics, Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies at 58 |
| 1936 | Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Governor-General of Australia), dies |
| 1934 | Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70 |
| 1934 | Patrick O'Malley, U.S. policeman, killed by John Dillinger |
| 1932 | Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77 |
| 1926 | Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1924 | Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1922 | John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89 |
| 1919 | Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47 |
| 1919 | Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered |
| 1915 | Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1909 | Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1909 | Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 |
| 1904 | Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1896 | Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 |
| 1876 | Eliza Johnson, American First Lady |
| 1866 | M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies |
| 1844 | Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1816 | Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1812 | Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1788 | Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1775 | Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies |
| 1765 | Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1755 | Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1744 | Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1705 | Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/Governor of Nijmegen, dies |
| 1684 | Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48 |
| 1208 | Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered |
