| 2003 | Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian |
| 2001 | Al McGuire, American Coach |
| 2000 | A. E. van Vogt, writer, The World of Null-A, dies at 87 |
| 1998 | S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at 67 |
| 1998 | Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99 |
| 1998 | Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93 |
| 1998 | Shinichi Suzuki, music educator, "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taugh violin to children", dies at 98 |
| 1998 | Walter Edmonds, writer, Drums Along the Mohawk, ., dies at 94 |
| 1997 | Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53 |
| 1996 | David Schultz, wrestler, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, killed by John Du Pont |
| 1996 | Harold Brodkey, writer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Henry Jay Lewis, conductor, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70), dies |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, piano accompnaist, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Louis Heren, journalist, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat, dies |
| 1993 | Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet, dies at 63 |
| 1991 | Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet, dies at 46 |
| 1990 | FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies |
| 1990 | Lewis Mumford, American Sociologist |
| 1989 | Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies |
| 1989 | Stephane Steinier, Belgian journalist, kidnapped and murdered |
| 1988 | Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist |
| 1985 | James Cameron, journalist, dies |
| 1983 | Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama), dies at 69 |
| 1983 | Paul Bryant, American Coach |
| 1979 | Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President and (4 time Governor-R-New York), dies at 70 |
| 1978 | Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72 |
| 1977 | Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61 |
| 1975 | Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72 |
| 1974 | S vs. Vegesack, writer, dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Wiktor Labunski, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Edward G Robinson, Goldenberg, actor (Little Caesar), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71 |
| 1967 | Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55 |
| 1967 | Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68 |
| 1965 | Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered |
| 1963 | John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70 |
| 1962 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano, New York City Mafia gangster, dies at 65 |
| 1962 | Fran Lhotka, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1954 | Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor, dies at 80 |
| 1953 | Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/translator (spelling), dies at 58 |
| 1952 | Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar), dies at 87 |
| 1950 | Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs), dies at 78 |
| 1949 | Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65 |
| 1948 | Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1947 | Grace Moore, U.S. soprano/actress (1 Night of Life), dies at 45 |
| 1947 | Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash |
| 1943 | Nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies |
| 1942 | Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 |
| 1939 | Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard |
| 1932 | William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies |
| 1922 | Luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1920 | Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered |
| 1911 | Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67 |
| 1904 | John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 |
| 1895 | Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies |
| 1893 | Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday |
| 1891 | Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies |
| 1885 | Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51 |
| 1879 | Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer |
| 1870 | Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1855 | Gerard de Nerval, Labrunie, French poet and writer, dies at 46 |
| 1850 | Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies |
| 1849 | Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 |
| 1828 | Lady Caroline Lamb, British Celebrity |
| 1824 | Edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies |
| 1824 | Theodore Gericault, French painter (Grand Derby d'epsom), dies |
| 1803 | Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1798 | Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 |
| 1795 | Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1706 | Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1109 | Albericus of Cateaux, French saint, dies |