| 2002 | Dave Thomas, commercial icon/businessman, founded Wendy's, dies at 69 |
| 1998 | Michael Tippett, composer, dies at 93 |
| 1998 | Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93 |
| 1998 | Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93 |
| 1997 | Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men, dies at 68 |
| 1997 | Jesse White, actor, Maytag repairman, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | Phyllis Hartnoll, writer and editor, dies at 90 |
| 1997 | Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Francois Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), dies of cancer at 79 |
| 1996 | Kurt Schmucker, member (Union of Christian Democrats), dies |
| 1996 | William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Carlos Monzon, El Macho, Argentina MW boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/comp (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Edward Duke, actor (Decadence, Silver Bears), dies of cancer at 40 |
| 1994 | Harvey Haddix, pitcher (12 perfect inning game), dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Jay Blackton, U.S. conductor/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide |
| 1994 | Pat Buttram, actor (Haney-Green Acres), dies of kidney failure at 78 |
| 1994 | Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99 |
| 1994 | Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52 |
| 1993 | Asif Nawaz, Pakistani general, dies |
| 1993 | Hakija Turajlic, Bosnian vice-premier, murdered |
| 1993 | Theo Bruins, Dutch pianist/composer (Syncope), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Abderrahim Bouabid, Morroco prime secretary (1972), dies |
| 1992 | Johnny [Jan] Meijer, Dutch king of accordians (Body and Soul), dies |
| 1992 | Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack |
| 1991 | Steve Clark, guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30 |
| 1990 | Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78 |
| 1989 | Johnny Jordaan, Jan van Musscher, Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 |
| 1989 | Ken McMillan, actress 'Malone', 'Concrete Beat', dies of heart attack at 56 |
| 1989 | Kenneth McMillan, actor (Our Family Honor, Malone), dies at 67 |
| 1988 | Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army 1950 - 1953, dies at 76 |
| 1987 | Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot and Cold), dies at 69 |
| 1986 | Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84 |
| 1983 | Gale Page, actress (4 Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1983 | Lois Wilson, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 88 |
| 1983 | Tom McCall, American Politician |
| 1982 | Gregoire Aslan, actor (Concrete Jungle), dies of 73 of a heart attack |
| 1982 | Reta Shaw, actress (Ghost and Mrs. Muir), dies of emphysema at 69 |
| 1981 | Matthew Beard, entertainer, dies |
| 1981 | Woody Chamblis, actor (Mr Lathrop-Gunsmoke), dies at 66 |
| 1980 | Oscar Ewing, U.S. government official (Everybody's Business), dies at 90 |
| 1978 | Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75 |
| 1976 | Chou En-lai, China's Prime Minister 1949 - 1976, dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 |
| 1976 | Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman |
| 1975 | Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66 |
| 1975 | Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70 |
| 1975 | John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69 |
| 1975 | John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55 |
| 1975 | Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66 |
| 1975 | Richard Tucker, Reuben Ticker, U.S. tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Kenneth Patchen, U.S. writer (See You in the Morning), dies at 60 |
| 1971 | Adriano Lualdi, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1970 | Jani Christou, composer, dies on 44th birthday |
| 1967 | Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39 |
| 1965 | Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71 |
| 1964 | Julius Raab, Austrian chancellor (1953-61), dies at 72 |
| 1963 | Stark Young, U.S. writer (So Red the Rose), dies at 81 |
| 1956 | Jim Elliot, American Clergyman |
| 1953 | Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1952 | Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies |
| 1952 | Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66 |
| 1950 | Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66 |
| 1950 | Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies |
| 1948 | Kurt Schwitters, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1948 | Richard Tauber, Austria/British tenor/composer (Lehar), dies at 55 |
| 1945 | Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79 |
| 1942 | Arvo Hannikainen, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1942 | Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman |
| 1941 | Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83 |
| 1939 | Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author |
| 1939 | Charles Eastman, Sioux Author |
| 1937 | John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1934 | Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies |
| 1928 | Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1926 | Emile Paladilhe, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1922 | Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria |
| 1921 | Luis Villalba Munoz, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1919 | Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59 |
| 1919 | Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austrian author, dies at 59 |
| 1918 | Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1907 | Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57 |
| 1906 | Jacob C van Marken, peanut butter maker (Calve-Delft), dies at 60 |
| 1896 | Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Elegies, Bonne Chanson), dies at 51 |
| 1896 | Paul Verlaine, French Poet |
| 1894 | Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, paleont (life of tapeworms), dies at 84 |
| 1892 | John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67 |
| 1891 | Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1880 | [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60 |
| 1864 | Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1859 | Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50 |
| 1858 | Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1842 | Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71 |
| 1831 | Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1825 | Eli Whitney, American Inventor |
| 1819 | Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1815 | Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle |
| 1811 | Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies |
| 1811 | Samuel Story, Dutch rear Admiral (Battle of Kamperduin), dies at 58 |
| 1808 | Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies |
| 1796 | Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46 |
| 1790 | John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81 |
| 1775 | John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 |
| 1713 | Arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59 |
| 1711 | Philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66 |
| 1696 | Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1651 | Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1642 | Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy |
| 1598 | Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72 |
| 1567 | Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37 |
| 1455 | Laurentius Justitianus, Lorenzo Giustiniani, saint, dies at 73 |
| 1336 | Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 |
| 1324 | Marco Polo, Venetian explorer and Governor of Nanking, dies |
| 1198 | Coelestinus III, Giacinto Bobo, pope (1191-98), dies |
| 624 | Abu Sufjan ibn Harb, Kurashite chief, dies in battle |
| 482 | Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies |
| 482 | Severinus, saint, dies |
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