| 2004 | Tug McGraw, American Athlete |
| 2003 | Jean Kerr, writer, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, dies at 79 |
| 2003 | Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82 |
| 2003 | Neil Postman, American Educator |
| 2001 | Nancy Parsons, actress, Porky's, dies at 58 |
| 2000 | David R. Brower, American Environmentalist |
| 1998 | Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1998 | Sonny Bono, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, singer, Sonny and Cher, dies skiing at 62 |
| 1997 | Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Yahya Ayyash, PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone at 28 |
| 1994 | Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1977 - 1987, Speaker of the House, dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1994 | Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39 |
| 1994 | William Raynor, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician |
| 1993 | George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60 |
| 1993 | Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65 |
| 1993 | Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies |
| 1993 | Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered |
| 1993 | Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52 |
| 1993 | Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965 |
| 1991 | John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80 |
| 1991 | Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 |
| 1990 | Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76 |
| 1990 | Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies |
| 1988 | "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40 |
| 1987 | Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60 |
| 1987 | Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian Athlete |
| 1982 | Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64 |
| 1982 | Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56 |
| 1981 | Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87 |
| 1981 | Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67 |
| 1979 | Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 |
| 1977 | Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84 |
| 1975 | Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning |
| 1975 | Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist |
| 1974 | Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 |
| 1970 | Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered |
| 1970 | Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 |
| 1970 | Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY |
| 1968 | Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73 |
| 1965 | Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66 |
| 1960 | Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53 |
| 1956 | Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 |
| 1952 | Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for Ind), dies |
| 1952 | Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64 |
| 1951 | Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 |
| 1951 | Shoeless Joe Jackson, American Athlete |
| 1950 | Sri Aurobindo, Indian Philosopher |
| 1945 | Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65 |
| 1944 | Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 |
| 1943 | George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81 |
| 1942 | Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered |
| 1940 | Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 |
| 1936 | Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66 |
| 1933 | Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60 |
| 1933 | Texas Guinan, American Businessman |
| 1931 | Dwight Morrow, American Businessman |
| 1922 | Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 |
| 1922 | Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer |
| 1918 | Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity |
| 1904 | Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 |
| 1891 | Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 |
| 1888 | Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday |
| 1879 | James C. Maxwell, Scottish Mathematician |
| 1870 | Alexander Dumas, French Novelist |
| 1867 | Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet |
| 1862 | Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1860 | St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies |
| 1858 | Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91 |
| 1856 | Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor, dies at 67 |
| 1848 | Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1827 | Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 |
| 1814 | Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1807 | Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 |
| 1799 | Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41 |
| 1796 | Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64 |
| 1788 | Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1783 | Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday |
| 1762 | Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52 |
| 1759 | Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Netherlands cardinal, dies at 79 |
| 1746 | Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1740 | Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72 |
| 1684 | Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44 |
| 1603 | Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73 |
| 1595 | Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies |
| 1592 | Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75 |
| 1589 | Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 |
| 1524 | Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73 |
| 1477 | Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43 |
| 1425 | John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned |
| 1387 | Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67 |
| 1066 | Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies |
