| 2004 | Marlon Brando, actor, The Godfather, dies at 80 |
| 2004 | Peter Barnes, English Playwright |
| 2003 | Herbie Mann, flutist, dies at 73 |
| 2000 | Walter Matthau, actor, The Odd Couple movie version, dies at 79 |
| 1999 | "Forrest Mars, Sr", businessman, Mars candy, dies at 95 |
| 1999 | Guy Mitchell, singer/actor, My Heart Cries for You, dies at 74 |
| 1999 | Sylvia Sidney, actress, ", Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, ", dies at 88 |
| 1999 | William Whitelaw, British Politician |
| 1997 | Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies |
| 1997 | Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41 |
| 1996 | Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Steve Tesich, screenwriter/playwright, dies at 53 |
| 1995 | Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49 |
| 1995 | Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies |
| 1992 | Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies |
| 1991 | Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies |
| 1991 | Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54 |
| 1990 | Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48 |
| 1990 | Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies |
| 1989 | William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies |
| 1988 | Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1988 | Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68 |
| 1986 | Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62 |
| 1983 | R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 |
| 1983 | R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor |
| 1982 | John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1982 | Shon Coco Palm, Jacobo JM Palm, Curacan composer, dies |
| 1982 | Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86 |
| 1981 | George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76 |
| 1980 | Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends and Associates), dies at 75 |
| 1979 | Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64 |
| 1978 | Kurt Student, German Soldier |
| 1974 | Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1968 | Virginia Weidler, actress (All This and Heaven Too), dies at 42 |
| 1965 | Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1964 | Pierre Monteux, French/U.S. conductor, Concert Building Orchestra, dies at 89 |
| 1963 | Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies |
| 1961 | Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night', dies in Paris, France, at age 67 |
| 1958 | Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies |
| 1958 | Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr. (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/Germany choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78 |
| 1953 | Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered |
| 1953 | Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies |
| 1950 | Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1950 | Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76 |
| 1949 | Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65 |
| 1947 | Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1944 | Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49 |
| 1943 | Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed |
| 1943 | C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed |
| 1943 | Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed |
| 1943 | Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1943 | Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed |
| 1939 | Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies |
| 1925 | Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59 |
| 1925 | Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61 |
| 1922 | Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81 |
| 1910 | Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies |
| 1899 | Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist |
| 1896 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85 |
| 1894 | Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 |
| 1885 | Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 |
| 1883 | Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1863 | John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 |
| 1847 | George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61 |
| 1839 | Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53 |
| 1805 | Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1784 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 74 |
| 1784 | Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, composer (Sinfonias 64), dies at 73 |
| 1782 | Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, does at 52 |
| 1776 | Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War |
| 1774 | Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68 |
| 1742 | Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czechoslovakian monk/composer, dies at 58 |
| 1723 | Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59 |
| 1691 | Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1662 | Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1627 | Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 |
| 1592 | Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist and composer (Responsoria), dies |
| 1589 | Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies |
| 1523 | Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake |
| 1523 | John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake |
| 1378 | Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies |
