| 2001 | Al Waxman, actor, Cagney and Lacey, dies at 65 |
| 2000 | Jester Hairston, actor/composer, Amos 'n' Andy, dies at 98 |
| 1998 | Monica Edwards, English Writer |
| 1997 | Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | Neville Crump, racehorse trainer, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | Paul Tsongas, Massachusetts senator, dies at 55 |
| 1996 | Leonor Fini, painter, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Minnesota Fats, Rudolf Wanderone, Jr., billiard hustler, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | N T Rama Rao, Prime Minister of Andhra Pradesh India 1983 - 1984, 1984 - 1989, 1994 - 1995, dies |
| 1995 | Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies |
| 1993 | Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34 |
| 1992 | John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56 |
| 1992 | Tom Elios, entertainer, dies |
| 1991 | Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102 |
| 1991 | Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85 |
| 1990 | Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel and Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23 |
| 1989 | Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49 |
| 1986 | Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies |
| 1985 | Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76 |
| 1985 | Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Hard Day's Night, Boys), dies at 72 |
| 1984 | Malcolm H Kerr, 9th President of American University of Beirut, shot dead |
| 1982 | Burnet Corwin Tuthill, U.S. composer (Laurentia), dies at 93 |
| 1982 | Ramon J. Sender, Spanish writer, dies at 79 |
| 1982 | Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 20 |
| 1980 | Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76 |
| 1979 | Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1978 | Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67 |
| 1978 | Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1977 | Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80 |
| 1977 | Paul Nordoff, U.S. composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67 |
| 1977 | Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81 |
| 1976 | Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67 |
| 1972 | Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1971 | Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80 |
| 1970 | David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96 |
| 1970 | David O. McKay, American Clergyman |
| 1968 | Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72 |
| 1968 | John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58 |
| 1968 | Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69 |
| 1967 | Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79 |
| 1967 | Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57 |
| 1967 | Harry Antrim, actor (Ma and Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83 |
| 1967 | Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45 |
| 1967 | Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84 |
| 1966 | Kathleen Norris, U.S. author, dies at 85 |
| 1963 | Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (S Australia batsman), dies |
| 1962 | Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1954 | Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74 |
| 1952 | Curly Howard, American Actor |
| 1951 | Robert Mark, U.S. chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41 |
| 1940 | Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 |
| 1937 | Frederick Pollock, English Judge |
| 1936 | Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70 |
| 1923 | Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31 |
| 1921 | Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73 |
| 1919 | John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13 |
| 1918 | Bohuslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1913 | Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49 |
| 1906 | Bartolome Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84 |
| 1902 | Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1890 | Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies at 44 |
| 1886 | Michal Czajchovski, Sadik Pasja, writer, dies |
| 1875 | Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1862 | John Tyler, 10th U.S. President (1841-45), dies in Richmond Virginia at 71 |
| 1854 | Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies |
| 1769 | Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan |
| 1760 | Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1730 | Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14 |
| 1677 | John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 |
| 1666 | Adriaen A Bloemaert, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56 |
| 1664 | Moise Amyrault, French theologist/vicar, dies |
| 1659 | Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1580 | Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63 |
| 1479 | Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt), dies at 61 |
| 1367 | Pedro I, king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46 |
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