| 2004 | Jerry Nachman, American Journalist |
| 2000 | Hedy Lamarr, actress/inventor, Samson and Deliah, dies at 86 |
| 1998 | Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65 |
| 1997 | Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70 |
| 1997 | George Armin Goyder, businessman and social philosopher, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | James Dickey, writer, Deliverance |
| 1996 | Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Donald Simpson, film producer, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/South African activist, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20 |
| 1993 | Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72 |
| 1993 | Reginald Lewis, CEO (Beatrice), dies of brain cancer at 50 |
| 1993 | William LeMassena, actor (All that Jazz), dies of lung cancer at 76 |
| 1991 | Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Glenn Langan, actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73 |
| 1991 | John Russell, actor and writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70 |
| 1990 | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58 |
| 1990 | Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83 |
| 1990 | Arthur Joseph Goldberg, American Statesman |
| 1989 | Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies |
| 1988 | Ballard Berkeley, actor (East meets West), dies at 83 |
| 1987 | Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92 |
| 1987 | Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator |
| 1982 | Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Richard Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1980 | William O Douglas, member U.S. Supreme court (1939-75), dies at 81 |
| 1980 | William O. Douglas, American Judge |
| 1979 | Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies |
| 1978 | Carl Betz, actor (Donna Reed Show), dies at 56 |
| 1977 | Geraldine Brooks, actress (Faraday and Co, Dumplings), dies at 51 |
| 1976 | Kevin Coughlin, actor (T R Ryan-Mama), killed in hit-&-run at 30 |
| 1975 | Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Albert Mahll, German writer, dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Hal March, actor (Atomic Kit, Outrage, Yankee Pasha), dies at 49 |
| 1969 | Charles Winninger, actor (Cafe Metropole, Coney Island), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Grace Cunard, actress (Untamed, Ressurection), dies at 73 |
| 1965 | Frank Reicher, actor (King Kong, Nazi Agent, Son of Kong), dies at 89 |
| 1962 | Snub Pollard, actor (Limelight, Arizona Days), dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1956 | Charles Dingle, actor, stage, film, played role of senator in 'Call Me Madam', films include 'The Little Foxes', dies |
| 1954 | Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Maltese Falcon), dies at 74 |
| 1951 | Constantin Nottara, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1951 | Wilhelm Schafer, German writer (Mein Leben), dies at 82 |
| 1945 | Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71 |
| 1944 | Harold Fraser-Simson, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1940 | William Edgar Borah, Senator-R-Idaho, 1907 - 1940, lawyer, died at the age of 74 |
| 1934 | Armand Parent, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1927 | Charlotte MAAVCL, princess of Belg/emp of Mexico (1864-67), dies at 86 |
| 1913 | David Emlyn Evans, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1894 | Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer, dies at 58 |
| 1893 | Julius Eichberg, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1885 | Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle |
| 1878 | Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 |
| 1874 | H vs. Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75 |
| 1839 | Georg Abraham Schneider, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1833 | Louis-J-Ferdinand Herold, French composer (Pre aux clercs), dies at 41 |
| 1830 | Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1805 | Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1795 | Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1747 | Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies |
| 1729 | William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58 |
| 1692 | John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62 |
| 1669 | Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 |
| 1647 | Johan van Beverwijck, physician (Treas of Ongesontheyt), dies at 52 |
| 1629 | Abbas I, Shah of Persia (1588-1629), dies at 57 |
| 1625 | Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1591 | Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 |
| 1576 | Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1549 | Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies |
| 1547 | Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 |
| 1479 | Johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81 |
| 639 | Dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrie, dies |
