| 2009 | Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47 |
| 2007 | Sidney Sheldon, dies in California, of complications from pneumonia, at 89 |
| 2006 | Wendy Wasserstein, American Playwright |
| 2001 | O. Winston Link, American Photographer |
| 1998 | Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38 |
| 1996 | Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72 |
| 1995 | George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84 |
| 1995 | George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan 1960 - 1962, 1964 - 1965, 1967 - 1969, 1969 - 1970, dies |
| 1994 | Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53 |
| 1993 | Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88 |
| 1991 | John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83 |
| 1988 | Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85 |
| 1987 | Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32 |
| 1987 | Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies |
| 1986 | Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74 |
| 1985 | Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67 |
| 1983 | Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia |
| 1983 | [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65 |
| 1982 | Felix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76 |
| 1982 | Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1982 | Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1982 | Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91 |
| 1980 | Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82 |
| 1980 | Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61 |
| 1976 | Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80 |
| 1975 | Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54 |
| 1972 | Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1970 | Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75 |
| 1969 | Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58 |
| 1968 | Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies |
| 1964 | Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80 |
| 1963 | Francois Poulenc, French composer (Litanies Vierge noire), dies at 74 |
| 1958 | Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70 |
| 1957 | Grigore Gafencu, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65 |
| 1956 | Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88 |
| 1956 | Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr. Bobbin), dies at 56 |
| 1953 | Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68 |
| 1951 | Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 |
| 1948 | Herb Pennock, pitcher (New York Yankees)/General Manager (Phillies), dies |
| 1948 | Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India |
| 1948 | Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76 |
| 1948 | Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader |
| 1947 | Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80 |
| 1945 | Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90 |
| 1945 | William Busch, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1942 | Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1928 | Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66 |
| 1927 | Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1925 | Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1925 | John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79 |
| 1900 | Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71 |
| 1897 | John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies |
| 1888 | Asa Gray, U.S. botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77 |
| 1881 | Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58 |
| 1881 | Arthur O'Shaughnessy, British Poet |
| 1860 | Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1838 | Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail |
| 1836 | Betsy Ross, American Celebrity |
| 1827 | Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1816 | Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74 |
| 1797 | Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1774 | Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1774 | Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1730 | Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14 |
| 1649 | Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason |
| 1644 | William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies |
| 1584 | Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle |
| 1584 | Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies |
| 1393 | Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball |
| 1393 | Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball |
| 1384 | Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/Rethel, dies |
| 1156 | Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies |
