| 2007 | E. Howard Hunt, dies at 88, of pneumonia in Florida |
| 2006 | Virginia Smith, Representative-R-Nebraska 1975 - 1991, |
| 2004 | Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo/Clarabell the Clown, dies at 76 |
| 2004 | Helmut Newton, photographer, Vogue, dies at 83 |
| 2003 | Nell Carter, actress, Gimme a Break, dies at 54 |
| 2002 | Robert Nozick, American Philosopher |
| 1999 | Jay Pritzker, billionaire, founded the Hyatt hotel chain, dies at 76 |
| 1998 | Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies |
| 1997 | Charles Craig, opera singer, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68 |
| 1997 | Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jump at Superbowl rehearsal at 43 |
| 1997 | Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47 |
| 1997 | Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67 |
| 1997 | Richard Berry, musician, singer, songwriter, wrote, 'Louie Louie', sold copyright in 1959, song has since been recorded over 1,000 times, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Norman MacCaig, poet, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Shirley Carter Burden, patrician, dies at 54 |
| 1995 | Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100 |
| 1995 | Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Oliver Smith, U.S. set designer (Guys and Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44 |
| 1994 | Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95 |
| 1993 | Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57 |
| 1993 | Thomas A Dorsey, jazz pianist (Take My Hand, Precious Lord), dies |
| 1992 | Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67 |
| 1992 | Ian Wolfe, actor (Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95 |
| 1992 | Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk, dies |
| 1991 | Northrop Frye, Canadian Critic |
| 1990 | Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister 1968 - 1970, 1973 - 1974, dies |
| 1989 | Salvador Dali, Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at 84 |
| 1988 | Dan Daniel, Representative-D-Virginia, 1969 - 1988 |
| 1986 | Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 |
| 1984 | Samuel Gardner, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1982 | Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83 |
| 1981 | Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66 |
| 1981 | Samuel Barber, U.S. composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70 |
| 1978 | Jack Oakie, actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster), dies at 74 |
| 1978 | Terry Kath, rock guitarist (Chicago), accidently shot in head at 32 |
| 1977 | Bernard "Toots" Shor, barkeeper, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44 |
| 1976 | Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in Philadelphia at 77 |
| 1975 | Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94 |
| 1969 | Jaroslav Kricka, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Jo van Ammers-Kuller, Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), dies at 81 |
| 1964 | Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1956 | Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79 |
| 1946 | Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1946 | Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72 |
| 1945 | Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37 |
| 1944 | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80 |
| 1943 | Alexander Woollcott, critic, dies of a heart attack on radio, at 56 |
| 1942 | Alexander Woollcott, American Critic |
| 1941 | Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1941 | John Oxenham, British Journalist |
| 1939 | Ernst Bla, writer, dies |
| 1939 | Matthias Sindelar, Austria soccer star, commits suicide |
| 1936 | Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope and Glory), dies at 62 |
| 1931 | Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies |
| 1926 | Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74 |
| 1926 | Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1923 | Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic |
| 1921 | Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1913 | Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated |
| 1908 | Edward Alexander MacDowell, U.S. composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47 |
| 1898 | W A Remy, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1893 | Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75 |
| 1891 | Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Flaanders, dies at 21 |
| 1883 | Gustave Dore, French illustrator, dies at 51 |
| 1879 | Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1875 | Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55 |
| 1864 | Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1845 | Francesco Ruggi, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1838 | Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 |
| 1837 | John Field, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1814 | Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1813 | George Clymer, U.S. merchant signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 73 |
| 1806 | William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister Great Britain 1783 - 1806, dies at 46 |
| 1805 | Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1800 | Edward Rutledge, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 50 |
| 1744 | Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher |
| 1708 | Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1648 | Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40 |
| 1639 | Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake |
| 1622 | William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38 |
| 1548 | Bernardo Pisano, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1516 | Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 63 |
| 1356 | Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies |
| 1002 | Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21 |
