| 2008 | Margaret Truman, dies in Chicago, at 83 |
| 2004 | Joe Viterelli, mob actor, Analyze This, dies at 66 |
| 2004 | Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist |
| 2003 | Leslie Fiedler, American Critic |
| 2002 | Daniel Pearl, journalist, Wall Street Journal bureau chief kidnapped and murdered by terrorists, dies at 38 |
| 2002 | Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35 |
| 1997 | Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Osvaldo Soriano, writer, journalist, staff writer for La Opinion, wrote, 'Triste, solitarity y final', or, Sad, lonely and final', dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Jack Sutherland, journalist, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Chris de Marigny, painter/designer, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Richard Burnell, British rower, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Richard Desborough Burnell, oarsman, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Nick Cravat, midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone), dies of lung cancer at 81 |
| 1994 | Ulrike Maier, olympic skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing at 26 |
| 1993 | Hank Werba, Herman Werblowski, U.S. journalist (Variety), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies |
| 1992 | Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76 |
| 1991 | Jan Ode, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies |
| 1991 | Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies |
| 1988 | Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide |
| 1988 | James R Killian, Jr., MIT President (1948-59), dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor, dies at 46 |
| 1987 | Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1986 | Leif Erickson, actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Frances Goodrich, (Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 93 of lung cancer |
| 1981 | Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II), dies |
| 1980 | Antonio Molina, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86 |
| 1978 | Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound), dies at 86 |
| 1977 | Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico and the Man), shoots himself at 22 |
| 1976 | Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies at 59 |
| 1973 | Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1973 | Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 |
| 1970 | Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74 |
| 1970 | B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian |
| 1969 | Allen Dulles, American Public Servant |
| 1967 | Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1966 | Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg), dies at 84 |
| 1966 | Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1965 | John Larkin, actor (Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52 |
| 1965 | Michael Spisak, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1964 | Alan Ladd, actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs California |
| 1963 | Robert Lee Frost, U.S. poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88 |
| 1963 | Robert Frost, American Poet |
| 1962 | Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist and composer, dies at 86 |
| 1960 | Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 |
| 1956 | H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, U.S. essayist/critic (Smart Set), dies at 75 |
| 1956 | H. L. Mencken, American Writer |
| 1955 | Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55), dies at 51 |
| 1951 | James Bridie, Osborne Henry Mavor, dramatist, dies |
| 1947 | Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30), dies |
| 1946 | Harry L Hopkins, U.S. Minister of Business (Loan and Lease law), dies at 55 |
| 1946 | Sidney James Jones, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1946 | Harry Hopkins, American Diplomat |
| 1944 | William Allen White, U.S. journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75 |
| 1942 | Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1941 | Ioannis Metaxas, Greek gen/dictator (1936-41), commits suicide at 69 |
| 1934 | Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 |
| 1933 | Sara Teasdale, American Author |
| 1928 | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66 |
| 1924 | Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1921 | Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for England including a century), dies |
| 1917 | Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 |
| 1916 | Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1912 | Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54 |
| 1910 | Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52 |
| 1906 | Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906), dies |
| 1899 | Alfred Sisley, painter, dies |
| 1899 | Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75 |
| 1888 | Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 |
| 1879 | Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 |
| 1860 | Ernst Moritz Arndt, German Poet |
| 1837 | Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel |
| 1824 | Louise MC countess of Albany, Henegouws salon owner, dies at 71 |
| 1820 | George III, king of Great Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 |
| 1814 | Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51 |
| 1696 | Ivan V, co-tsar of Russia (1682-89), dies |
| 1663 | Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies |
| 1559 | Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 |
| 969 | Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies |
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