| 2005 | Humphrey Carpenter, English Author |
| 2003 | Conrad Hall, American Artist |
| 1999 | Iron Eyes Cody, actor, dies at 94 |
| 1998 | John Gary, singer, dies at 65 |
| 1998 | Mae Questel, actress, voice of Betty Boop, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Harry B. Helmsley, businessman, Helmsley hotels, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | D Elmina Davies, filmmaker, dies at 36 |
| 1995 | Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80 |
| 1995 | Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52 |
| 1995 | Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire Orchestra, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Governor of Curaeao 1951 - 1967, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies |
| 1993 | Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1992 | Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies |
| 1992 | William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74 |
| 1991 | Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78 |
| 1991 | Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94 |
| 1991 | Leo N Wright, U.S. saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at 57 |
| 1990 | Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies |
| 1990 | Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57 |
| 1987 | F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79 |
| 1987 | Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 |
| 1986 | Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34 |
| 1985 | Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89 |
| 1979 | Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack |
| 1978 | Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76 |
| 1976 | Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84 |
| 1975 | Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72 |
| 1974 | Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1972 | Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1969 | Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1968 | Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 |
| 1967 | Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water |
| 1965 | T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76 |
| 1965 | T. S. Eliot, English Poet |
| 1964 | Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72 |
| 1960 | Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 |
| 1960 | Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter |
| 1958 | Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75 |
| 1957 | Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57), dies at 84 |
| 1956 | Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1955 | Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1955 | Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1955 | Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84 |
| 1953 | Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78 |
| 1952 | Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65 |
| 1947 | Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 |
| 1946 | Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67 |
| 1944 | Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder |
| 1944 | Kaj Munk, Harald Leininger, anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies |
| 1942 | Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1941 | Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 |
| 1940 | Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59 |
| 1933 | Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87 |
| 1931 | Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at 40 |
| 1920 | Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Gloria), dies at 76 |
| 1914 | Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66 |
| 1914 | Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 |
| 1913 | Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian General-Field Marshal, dies at 79 |
| 1910 | Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies |
| 1908 | Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70 |
| 1903 | Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49 |
| 1898 | Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1891 | Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Australia tour), dies |
| 1886 | Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77 |
| 1885 | Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1883 | Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1880 | Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies |
| 1877 | Cornelius Vanderbilt, U.S. robber baron, dies at 82 |
| 1864 | Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1843 | Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80 |
| 1831 | Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37 |
| 1825 | Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73 |
| 1821 | Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland |
| 1809 | Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1804 | Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies |
| 1799 | Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40 |
| 1793 | Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35 |
| 1786 | Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 |
| 1782 | Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at 83 |
| 1778 | Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57 |
| 1765 | Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1761 | Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 |
| 1752 | Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at 47 |
| 1745 | Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62 |
| 1729 | Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77 |
| 1729 | Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies |
| 1707 | Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies |
| 1701 | Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austria, field marshal, dies at 62 |
| 1695 | Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies |
| 1678 | Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon (1653-78), dies at 71 |
| 1612 | Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62 |
| 1584 | Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44 |
| 838 | Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred |
