| 2003 | Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman |
| 2003 | Lucien E. Blackwell, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1991 - 1995 |
| 1998 | Jay Monahan, husband of Katie Couric, dies of cancer at 42 |
| 1998 | Jay Monahan, lawyer, MSNBC legal analyst, dies at 42 |
| 1997 | Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49 |
| 1996 | Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60 |
| 1994 | Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48 |
| 1993 | Thurgood Marshall, 1st black supreme court justice (1967-91), dies 84 |
| 1993 | Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (Cumhuriyet Murder), dies |
| 1992 | Charles Moulin, French actor (French Tarzan), dies |
| 1992 | John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Tina Chow, model, dies of AIDs at 41 |
| 1991 | George Gobel, comedian, dies of a heart attack at 71 |
| 1991 | Lawrence Lott, actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40 |
| 1990 | Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87 |
| 1989 | Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42 |
| 1988 | Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C), dies at 91 |
| 1986 | Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), dies at 64 |
| 1986 | L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Rosser Reeves, advertising executive, television advertising pioneer, wrote, 'Reality in Advertising', created ads for Dwight Eisenhower's Presidential campaign, owned a 138.7 carat Star Ruby, dies |
| 1983 | George Cukor, director, dies of stroke and heart attack at 83 |
| 1979 | Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51 |
| 1979 | Mabel Taliaferro, actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91 |
| 1978 | William Barclay, Scottish Theologian |
| 1975 | Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 72 |
| 1973 | J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan), dies at 73 |
| 1972 | Jerome Cowan, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie), dies at 74 |
| 1971 | William Griffith Wilson, American Celebrity |
| 1970 | James "Shep" Shepherd, rocker (Shep and Limelites), beaten to death |
| 1969 | Pauline Hall, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1969 | Tom Zachary, baseball pitcher (Washington Senators), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Howard Charles Shaiffer, entertainer, dies at 49 |
| 1965 | Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, dies at 90 |
| 1964 | Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents), dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Tom Shirley, actor/TV announcer (They're Off), dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82 |
| 1960 | John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at 66 |
| 1960 | Rutland Boughton, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1955 | Ira Hayes, American Soldier |
| 1953 | [Karl R] Gerd von Rundstedt, General-Field Marshal (Normandy), dies at 77 |
| 1950 | Bull Montana, actor (Son of Sheik), dies at 62 |
| 1947 | Felix Timmermans, writer/painter (Gift from St. Nicholas), dies at 60 |
| 1943 | John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies |
| 1940 | Emile van Bosch, revue/operetta-artist, dies at 52 |
| 1929 | Willem Royaards, theater directeor (Adam in Ballingschap), dies |
| 1924 | Thephilo Braga, Portuguese poet/politician, dies at 80 |
| 1914 | David Gill, Scottish Scientist |
| 1913 | Gustav Luders, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1911 | Carl Eilhardt, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1911 | David Graham Phillips, American Journalist |
| 1904 | Franz Coenen, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1901 | Simon Hassler, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1885 | Martin R Delany, politician and black nationalist, dies at 72 |
| 1884 | Johann Christian Gebauer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1883 | Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70 |
| 1864 | Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1864 | Stephen Gardner Champlin, Brigadier-General (Union), dies at about 36 |
| 1862 | James McIntosh, U.S. confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 33 |
| 1851 | Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76 |
| 1826 | Thomas Wilson, born in Staunton, Virginia, politician, lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, served as member of Virginia Senate and Virginia House of Delegates, elected to the Twelfth Congress, as a Federalist, dies |
| 1812 | Eligio Celestino, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1805 | Giacomo Conti, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1678 | Joan Maetsuyker, Governor-General of Netherlands East-Indies, dies at 72 |
| 1666 | Johann Andreas Herbst, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1639 | George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated |
| 1547 | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason |
| 1473 | Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies |
| 1336 | Alfonso IV, the Benignant, king of Aragon (1327-36), dies at 36 |
| 817 | Stefanus IV, V/Colonna, pope (816-17), dies |
| 772 | Stefanus III/IV, pope (768-72), dies |
| 661 | Ali ibn Abu Talib, kalief of Islam (656-61), murdered |
| 41 | Caligula, G C Germanicus, Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28 |
