| 2005 | Will Eisner, American Cartoonist |
| 1997 | Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Byron MacGregor, newscaster, dies at 56 |
| 1995 | Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten and The Bie), dies at 48 |
| 1993 | Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89 |
| 1992 | Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93 |
| 1992 | Lewis Michael Friedman, pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS |
| 1992 | Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies |
| 1990 | Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies |
| 1988 | Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium 1949, 1958 - 1961, 1968 - 1972, dies at 82 |
| 1988 | Rose Auslander, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1988 | William Cagney, actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82 |
| 1985 | Lucien Cailliet, composer, dies at 93 |
| 1981 | Herman Talmadge, Senator-D-Georgia 1957 - 1981, Governor of Georgia 1948 - 1955, Watergate Committee, died at age 88 |
| 1980 | Amos Milburn, rocker, blues singer, pianist, played rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, important figure in the history of blues musicianship, dies at 52 |
| 1980 | Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38 |
| 1980 | Ivan Triesault, actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at 81 |
| 1980 | Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69 |
| 1979 | Conrad Hilton, U.S. founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 |
| 1977 | Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide |
| 1977 | Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75 |
| 1977 | Carroll Quigley, American Writer |
| 1976 | Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, dies |
| 1976 | Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1976 | Michael V. Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24, dies in F-4 crash at 37 |
| 1975 | Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87 |
| 1975 | Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 |
| 1975 | Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71 |
| 1974 | Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Howard McNear, actor (Irma La Douce), dies after long illness at 63 |
| 1967 | Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55 |
| 1967 | Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92 |
| 1966 | Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62 |
| 1965 | Betty Harte, entertainer, dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84 |
| 1965 | Milton Avery, American Artist |
| 1963 | Oscar Backing, Austria/Netherlands viola player, dies at 83 |
| 1960 | Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80 |
| 1959 | Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet |
| 1956 | Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91 |
| 1951 | Fred Barlow, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1946 | William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason |
| 1945 | Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1942 | Pauline Beersmans, PLJM van Cuyck, Flemish actress, dies at 70 |
| 1938 | Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54 |
| 1933 | Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56 |
| 1931 | Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78 |
| 1923 | Jaroslav Hasek, Czechoslovakian writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39 |
| 1915 | James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30 |
| 1914 | Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1912 | Felix Dahn, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples', dies at 77 |
| 1907 | Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1900 | Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1898 | James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70 |
| 1882 | William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76 |
| 1882 | William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist |
| 1875 | Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68 |
| 1875 | George Bizet, composer, dies |
| 1873 | John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1870 | Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46 |
| 1868 | Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1865 | Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43 |
| 1858 | Rachel, Elisabeth Rachel-Felix, French singer and actress (Muse), dies at 36 |
| 1855 | Julius Charles Hare, English Clergyman |
| 1853 | Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1841 | Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82 |
| 1836 | Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1835 | Willem F Roell, Dutch baron/minister of Internal Affairs, dies at 67 |
| 1829 | Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1795 | Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64 |
| 1761 | Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (Joseph), dies at 73 |
| 1759 | Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed |
| 1670 | George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61 |
| 1661 | Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 |
| 1641 | Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22 |
| 1628 | Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1571 | Joachim II Hector, elector (Brandenburg), dies at 65 |
| 1570 | Bartholomeus Latomus, Steinmetz, Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies |
| 1560 | Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56 |
| 1552 | Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64 |
| 1543 | Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies |
| 1501 | Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 |
| 1322 | Philip V, the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies |
