| 2008 | Evan G. Galbraith, dies at 79, at his home in Manhattan |
| 2006 | Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman |
| 2002 | Carrie Hamilton, actress/writer, Hollywood Arms, dies at 38 |
| 2002 | Peggy Lee, singer, Is That All There Is?, dies at 81 |
| 2001 | Sandy Baron, comic, Broadway Danny Rose, dies at 63 |
| 1999 | Jules Lederer, businessman, Budget Rent-A-Car, dies at 81 |
| 1998 | Jack Lord, actor, Hawaii Five-O, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Dennis Main Wilson, TV and radio producer, dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Michael Duane, educationalist, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Colonel Tom Parker, manager, promoted Elvis, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker, dies at 25 |
| 1995 | John Halas, animator, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Philippe Casado, Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30 |
| 1994 | Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad son, dies in car accident at 31 |
| 1992 | William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, U.S. boxer/pianist, dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Boris Arapov, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 |
| 1991 | Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies |
| 1991 | Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost, dies at 87 |
| 1988 | Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies |
| 1987 | Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83 |
| 1985 | Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema |
| 1984 | Jackie Wilson, U.S. singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49 |
| 1981 | Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79 |
| 1977 | John Vincent, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1975 | Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84 |
| 1974 | Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 |
| 1974 | Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Richard Russell, Jr., Senator-D-Georgia 1933 - 1971, dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Ann Sheridan, actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51 |
| 1965 | Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68 |
| 1964 | Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68 |
| 1963 | Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70 |
| 1962 | Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Blaise Cendrars, Swiss/French poet (J'ai tue), dies at 73 |
| 1961 | John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday |
| 1959 | Cecil B[lount] de Mille, producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77 |
| 1959 | Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1959 | Cecil B. DeMille, American Producer |
| 1957 | Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87 |
| 1955 | Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council, dies at 59 |
| 1954 | Billy Jenkins, dies at 69 |
| 1950 | George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46 |
| 1948 | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74 |
| 1944 | Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down |
| 1943 | Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1942 | Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72 |
| 1932 | [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51 |
| 1931 | Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1927 | Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65 |
| 1926 | Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 |
| 1924 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53 |
| 1924 | Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader |
| 1903 | Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58 |
| 1901 | Elisha Gray, American Inventor |
| 1894 | Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24 |
| 1892 | John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies |
| 1891 | Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1888 | Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1884 | Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1883 | Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1882 | Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1872 | Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81 |
| 1871 | John J Rochussen, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73 |
| 1862 | Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, dies at 41 |
| 1851 | Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1831 | Achim vs. Arnim, writer, dies at 49 |
| 1815 | Matthias Claudius, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert, dies at 74 |
| 1793 | Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 |
| 1774 | Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 |
| 1746 | Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1704 | Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 |
| 1686 | Nicolas-Franeois Blondel, French architect, dies |
| 1683 | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 |
| 1670 | Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 |
| 1665 | Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1665 | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63 |
| 1626 | John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 |
| 1609 | Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 |
| 1596 | John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 |
| 1118 | Paschalis II, Raniero, pope (1099-1118), dies |
| 879 | Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies |
