| 2007 | Robert C. Solomon, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 64 |
| 2004 | Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76 |
| 2003 | Sydney Omarr, astrologer, dies at 76 |
| 2001 | George Carman, English Lawyer |
| 2000 | Patrick O'Brian, author of sea-faring novels, Aubrey-Maturin series, dies at 85 |
| 1998 | Frank Muir, English Writer |
| 1997 | Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Randy California, rock guitarist, dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Sydney Thompson, rock Climber, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Thornton Page, astrophysicist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies |
| 1995 | Nancy Kelly, U.S. actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Caesar Romero, actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician |
| 1992 | Virginia Field, actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1991 | Edmond Jabes, writer, dies |
| 1991 | Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78 |
| 1990 | Alan Hale, Jr., Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1990 | Belcampo, Herman Schonfeld Wichers, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78 |
| 1986 | Una Merkel, U.S. actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82 |
| 1983 | Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65 |
| 1983 | Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer |
| 1981 | David Lynch, singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51 |
| 1980 | Larry Williams, singer, pianist, rock and roll, rhythm and blues genres, recorded, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Short Fat Fannie, dies from a gunshot wound, in Los Angeles, California, at age 44 |
| 1977 | Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53 |
| 1974 | Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67 |
| 1970 | Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1969 | Georges Renevant, actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74 |
| 1968 | Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies |
| 1965 | Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Dick Powell, actor and director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58 |
| 1963 | Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60 |
| 1960 | Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79 |
| 1960 | Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 |
| 1960 | Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered Prime Minister Sturgkh, dies at 80 |
| 1955 | Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated |
| 1950 | Emil Jannings, actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 |
| 1941 | Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1937 | Ross Alexander, actor (Captain Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29 |
| 1929 | Erich Wichmann, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38 |
| 1921 | Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 |
| 1918 | Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42 |
| 1917 | Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 |
| 1915 | Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84 |
| 1913 | Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at 57 |
| 1908 | Dom Joao G da Camara, Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at 55 |
| 1904 | James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82 |
| 1892 | George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90 |
| 1879 | Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat |
| 1863 | Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 35 |
| 1861 | Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65 |
| 1803 | Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1801 | Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 |
| 1801 | Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian |
| 1790 | Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies |
| 1789 | Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1780 | Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1763 | John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72 |
| 1740 | Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1726 | Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 |
| 17 | Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies |
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