| 2008 | Bobby Fischer, dies in Iceland, at 64 |
| 2007 | Art Buchwald, dies at 74, posts his video obituary in which he declared, "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." |
| 2005 | Charlie Bell, Australian Businessman |
| 2004 | Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72 |
| 2004 | Tom Wesselmann, American Artist |
| 2003 | Richard Crenna, actor, Rambo, dies at 75 |
| 2001 | Gregory Corso, American Poet |
| 1998 | Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82 |
| 1997 | Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies |
| 1997 | Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto in 1930, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Barbara Jordan, Representative-D-Texas, 1972 - 1978 |
| 1995 | Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54 |
| 1994 | Allan G. Odell, Advertising executive (Burma Shave), dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea 1964 - 1970, dies |
| 1994 | Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61 |
| 1994 | Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies |
| 1992 | Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95 |
| 1992 | Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer |
| 1992 | Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies |
| 1991 | Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies |
| 1990 | Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies |
| 1989 | Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 |
| 1983 | Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71 |
| 1981 | Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73 |
| 1980 | Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr and Mrs. North), dies at 59 |
| 1978 | Don Ellis, American Musician |
| 1977 | Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st U.S. execution since 1967 |
| 1976 | Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident |
| 1973 | Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77 |
| 1972 | Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55 |
| 1970 | Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32 |
| 1969 | Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1968 | Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 |
| 1967 | Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82 |
| 1967 | Harold Edward Holt, Australian Politician |
| 1966 | Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50 |
| 1964 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57 |
| 1964 | T. H. White, Indian Writer |
| 1964 | Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher |
| 1964 | Victor Francis Hess, American Physicist |
| 1962 | Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56 |
| 1961 | Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36 |
| 1959 | Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi |
| 1955 | J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68 |
| 1955 | Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Netherlands), dies at 68 |
| 1946 | Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1942 | Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1941 | Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82 |
| 1938 | William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79 |
| 1933 | Emily Murphy, Canadian Activist |
| 1918 | Julius Wellhausen, German Educator |
| 1917 | Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70 |
| 1913 | Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1911 | Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 |
| 1910 | Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies |
| 1910 | Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69 |
| 1908 | Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72 |
| 1902 | Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed |
| 1901 | Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87 |
| 1893 | Rutherford B Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70 |
| 1892 | Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27 |
| 1891 | Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1891 | George Bancroft, American Historian |
| 1890 | Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1889 | Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56 |
| 1886 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 |
| 1874 | Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 |
| 1869 | Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1863 | E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73 |
| 1856 | Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1856 | John Eaton, American Politician |
| 1847 | Marie Louise, French Royalty |
| 1833 | James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60 |
| 1833 | William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies |
| 1830 | W Waiblinger, writer, dies |
| 1826 | Juan Crisostomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19 |
| 1823 | Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 |
| 1820 | Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 |
| 1805 | Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73 |
| 1788 | Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1781 | Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies |
| 1750 | Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78 |
| 1738 | Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies |
| 1702 | Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies |
| 1676 | Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 |
| 1661 | Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed |
| 1654 | Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1625 | Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1620 | Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59 |
| 1617 | Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68 |
| 1604 | Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1273 | Rumi, Afghani Poet |
| 1229 | Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 |
| 1119 | Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies |
| 1103 | Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies |
| 395 | Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49 |
