| 2004 | Francesco Scavullo, photographer, dies at 82 |
| 2000 | Don Martin, Mad cartoonist, dies at 68 |
| 1999 | Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist, Both Worlds, dies at 36 |
| 1997 | Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52 |
| 1997 | Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87 |
| 1997 | Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39 |
| 1996 | Duane Hanson, sculptor, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Henry Lennox d'Aubigny Hopkinson, diplomat/politician, dies at 94 |
| 1996 | John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Joe Slovo, Latvian/South African attorney/secretary-general (SACR), dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch Undersecretary of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies |
| 1994 | Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6 |
| 1994 | Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Elisabeth, arch duch of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1993 | Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54 |
| 1992 | Avon Jaeger Hill, entertainer, dies of cancer at 44 |
| 1992 | Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies |
| 1992 | Vincent Placoly, Martinique writer (Une journee torride), dies at 45 |
| 1991 | Ada Moore, entertainer, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1990 | Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies |
| 1990 | Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40 |
| 1989 | Hirohito, Japan's emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign |
| 1989 | Edmund Leach, British Scientist |
| 1988 | Brent Collins, soap actor (Another World), dies of heart attack at 46 |
| 1986 | Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 |
| 1981 | A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84 |
| 1978 | John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Oscar Espla, Spanish philosopher/composer (Sonata del Sur), dies at 89 |
| 1975 | Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican sculptor/muralist, dies at 77 |
| 1968 | Kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried |
| 1967 | Johnny Keane, baseball player/manager (Cards, New York Yankees), dies at 55 |
| 1965 | John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52 |
| 1964 | Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 |
| 1963 | Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 |
| 1961 | Regina Ullmann, writer, dies at 76 |
| 1960 | Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Scope and Means), dies at 68 |
| 1959 | Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1958 | Josephine CMA, princess of Belgium/nun, dies at 85 |
| 1950 | Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71 |
| 1941 | Franz Hessel, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1936 | Charles A Stoneham, President (New York Giants), dies |
| 1935 | George P Baker, U.S. playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68 |
| 1932 | Julius Rosenwald, American Businessman |
| 1929 | Nicolas Nikolayevitch, grand-duke of Russia, dies at 72 |
| 1928 | Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51 |
| 1919 | Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President 1901 - 1909, dies in New York at 60 |
| 1919 | Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity |
| 1918 | Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 |
| 1917 | Hendrik P G Quack, lawyer/economist (Bank of Netherlands), dies at 82 |
| 1885 | Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72 |
| 1884 | Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 |
| 1884 | Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75 |
| 1831 | Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer/violinist (Kreutzersonate), dies at 64 |
| 1800 | William Jones, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1799 | Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 |
| 1799 | W G Frederik, prince of Orange/general, dies at 25 |
| 1790 | Johann Trier, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1785 | Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution |
| 1742 | Johann Georg Reinhardt, composer, dies |
| 1738 | Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1725 | Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71 |
| 1702 | Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies |
| 1697 | Carlo Mannelli, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1694 | Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies |
| 1693 | Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey), dies at 51 |
| 1685 | Malachias Siebenhaar, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1646 | Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72 |
| 1592 | Johan Casimir, palsgrave at the Rhine, dies |
| 1541 | Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52 |
| 1536 | Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies |
| 1448 | Christopher III, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies |
| 1425 | Jan of Bavaria, liege of Holland/bishop/duke, dies |
| 1374 | Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies |
| 1275 | Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies |
| 1088 | Berengarius of Tours, French theologist, dies |
