| 2002 | Avery Schreiber, comic, Burns and Schreiber, dies at 66 |
| 2002 | Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish Writer |
| 1997 | Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Arthur Leavins, violinist, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Harry Golombek, chess Grandmaster, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71 |
| 1995 | Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle |
| 1995 | William Larry White Grayson, comedian, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Murray Rothbard, American Economist |
| 1994 | Bobby Pratt, jazz Trombone/Piano Player, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Jay Blackton, broadway Conductor (Oklahoma!), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Lynn Blessing, vibes Player, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies |
| 1994 | Vittorio Mezzogiorno, actor (Cafe Express), dies of heart failure 52 |
| 1993 | Richard Branda, actor (2 Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57 |
| 1992 | Jhean Burton, entertainer, dies |
| 1992 | Richard Hunt, puppeteer/actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40 |
| 1991 | Joe Hicks, baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1990 | Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81 |
| 1990 | Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies |
| 1990 | Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73 |
| 1989 | Frank Adams, British Mathematician |
| 1988 | Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71 |
| 1987 | Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72 |
| 1986 | Juan Rulfo, writer, dies |
| 1986 | M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79 |
| 1985 | Johnny Guarnieri, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show), dies at 67 |
| 1983 | August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79 |
| 1982 | Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash |
| 1981 | Jose Ardevol, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1980 | Carl White, rocker, dies |
| 1980 | Sarah Selby, actress (Tower of London), dies at 74 |
| 1979 | Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1972 | John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies |
| 1971 | Dick Kollmar, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies at 60 |
| 1971 | Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64 |
| 1970 | Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Carl Schuricht, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1967 | Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW and Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies |
| 1964 | Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62 |
| 1961 | Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74 |
| 1960 | Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1958 | Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74 |
| 1957 | Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies |
| 1951 | Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76 |
| 1948 | Raoul Auernheimer, writer, dies |
| 1944 | J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86 |
| 1942 | Henry, Count of Baillet-Latour, President of IOC (1925-42), dies at 63 |
| 1932 | Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60 |
| 1930 | Rudolf Hapke, historian (Entstehung Holland Wirtschaft), dies at 45 |
| 1929 | Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77 |
| 1922 | Antonio Scontrino, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1921 | Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69 |
| 1907 | Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1892 | Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39 |
| 1891 | Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1890 | Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78 |
| 1890 | Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1887 | Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74 |
| 1870 | Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1868 | William Batchelder Bradbury, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1858 | Willem Broes, vicar/theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91 |
| 1843 | Franz Schoberlechner, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1833 | Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1830 | Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal's ex, dies at 53 |
| 1810 | Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1790 | Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1758 | Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71 |
| 1755 | Gallus Zeiler, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1736 | Ceslav Vanura, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1722 | Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60 |
| 1695 | Mary II Stuart, queen of England, dies at 32 |
| 1678 | Johannes Flittner, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1655 | Innocentius X, Giambattista Pamfili, pope (1644-55), dies at 80 |
| 1598 | Theodorus I, Fedor Ivanovitch, czar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40 |
| 1591 | Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59 |
| 1590 | Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61 |
| 1566 | Ludovicus Blosius, Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", wrtier, dies |
| 1537 | Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated |
| 1536 | Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies |
| 1529 | Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies |
| 1451 | Amadeus VIII, last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67 |
| 1325 | Dionysius, the justified, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies |
| 1285 | Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples/bro of King Louis IX, dies at 58 |
| 1130 | Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83 |
| 312 | Lucianus of Antioch, theologist/saint, dies |
