| 2010 | Florence Green, the last known female First World War veteran who served with the Women's RAF in 1918, dies at 108 |
| 2009 | Andrew Wyeth, American artist, dies at 91, after a brief illness |
| 2002 | Carl Olson, American Athlete |
| 2001 | Auberon Waugh, British Author |
| 2000 | Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82 |
| 1998 | David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at 67 |
| 1998 | Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, dies at 84 |
| 1998 | Emil Sitka, actor, Three Stooges shorts, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Innis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on LA highway at 29 |
| 1997 | Jim Kensil, NFL president for the New York Jets, dies of heart failure at 66 |
| 1997 | Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Kaye Webb, publisher, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | William Dillard, trumpeter/singer, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Harry Nilsson, singer/Songwriter, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Martin Kosleck, German/US actor (Hitler Gang), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Noel Fore, Belgian cyclist (Paris-Roubaix 1959), dies at 61 |
| 1994 | Stephen Kritsick, veterinarian (Good Morning America), dies at 42 |
| 1993 | Florence Desmond, Dawson, actress (Sally in Our Alley), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Glenn Corbett, U.S. actor (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway), dies at 63 |
| 1993 | Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Sri Lanka commander, commits suicide |
| 1992 | Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95 |
| 1989 | Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82 |
| 1989 | Romo Vincent, actor (Naked Jungle), dies |
| 1989 | Trey Wilson, actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona), dies |
| 1987 | Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79 |
| 1987 | Ilse Langen, writer, dies at 87 |
| 1987 | Joyce Jameson, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54 |
| 1981 | Bernard Lee, actor (Fallen Idol, Dr. No), dies at 73 |
| 1980 | Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94 |
| 1979 | Fred Elizalde, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1979 | Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46 |
| 1973 | Ray Barrett, sportscaster (Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 65 |
| 1972 | David Seville, singer (Alvin and Chipmunks), dies at 52 |
| 1971 | Kermit Maynard, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup), dies at 68 |
| 1970 | Armijn Pane, Indonesian writer (Djinak-djinak merpati), dies at 61 |
| 1969 | Jan Palach, protesting Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, self immolates at 20 |
| 1969 | Vernon Duke, songwriter, composer, memorable songs 'Take a Chance on Love', 'April in Paris', dies at 65 |
| 1968 | Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Dirk Vansina, Flemish playwright (Sage of Kai-Roi), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, dies at 65 |
| 1966 | Margarete Susman, writer, dies at 91 |
| 1963 | Gilardo Gilardi, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1962 | Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 |
| 1957 | Alexander Cambridge, Governor-General (South Africa 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82 |
| 1957 | Arturo Toscanini, Italian U.S. conductor (NBC), dies in New York City at 89 |
| 1955 | Jonkheer Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch Minister (1908-13), dies |
| 1955 | Reneke de Marees van Swinderen, Dutch minister (1908-13), dies at 94 |
| 1954 | Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies |
| 1950 | Gustav Krupp, German Businessman |
| 1946 | Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71 |
| 1945 | Dennis Donnini, British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19 |
| 1943 | Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Sunny Lane), dies at 88 |
| 1942 | Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), and mom killed in plane crash at 32 |
| 1939 | Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed |
| 1935 | Richard Wetz, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1934 | Annie Patterson, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1920 | Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1919 | Jaroslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 19 |
| 1916 | Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57 |
| 1912 | Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend |
| 1901 | Arnold Bocklin, Swiss painter, dies at 73 |
| 1901 | Hiram Revels, dies at 73 |
| 1893 | Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74 |
| 1892 | Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies |
| 1891 | Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1891 | Leo Delibes, French ballet composer (Lakme), dies at 54 |
| 1886 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 |
| 1885 | Edmond About, French Novelist |
| 1864 | Anton Schindler, German violinist and biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 |
| 1849 | Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 |
| 1842 | Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies |
| 1838 | Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 |
| 1817 | Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1794 | Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall), dies in London at 56 |
| 1703 | Matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1697 | Richard Savage, poet, dies |
| 1595 | Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies |
| 1343 | Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies |
| 308 | Marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies |
