| 2007 | Claudia Johnson, dies at 94, of natural causes |
| 2004 | Laurance Rockefeller, venture capitalist/philanthropist, founded the American Conservation Association, dies at 94 |
| 2004 | Joe Gold, American Businessman |
| 2004 | Walter Wager, American Novelist |
| 1996 | Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Martin Corbett, gay activist, dies at 51 |
| 1995 | John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Bart Scheepens, actor and director, dies of AIDS at 50 |
| 1994 | Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49 |
| 1993 | Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Denis Tomlinson, South Africa cricket leg-spinner, dies |
| 1993 | Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83 |
| 1993 | Kelly Ahrendt, 1st death by rabies in New York since 1954, dies |
| 1993 | Mario Bauza, Cubans/US jazz musician, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34 |
| 1992 | Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies |
| 1992 | Antoon J Hubben, mayor of Maasbree/President KVM/Unie BLHP, dies at 73 |
| 1991 | Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered |
| 1991 | James McCallion, actor (PT 109, Big Combo), dies at 72 |
| 1990 | Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Ciske the Rat, Lifespan), dies at 67 |
| 1989 | Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50 |
| 1984 | Karel Mengelberg, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Kenneth Millar, American Writer |
| 1980 | Boleslaw Woytowicz, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1980 | Peggy Knudson, actress (April-So This is Hollywood), dies at 57 |
| 1975 | Kurt Pinthus, writer, dies at 89 |
| 1974 | Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Isabel Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 83 |
| 1973 | Robert Ryan, U.S. actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63 |
| 1971 | Carleton Young, actor (Court of Last Resorts), dies at 64 |
| 1971 | John W. Campbell, U.S., sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61 |
| 1966 | Delmore Schwartz, U.S. poet/critic (Shenandoah), dies at 52 |
| 1965 | Ray Collins, actor (Halls of Ivy, Perry Mason), dies at 75 |
| 1964 | Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64 |
| 1962 | Owen D. Young, American Businessman |
| 1960 | Gunnar Olof Bjorling, Fin-Swedish language poet (Kiri-ra!), dies at 73 |
| 1958 | Karel Wellens, Flemish painter, dies at 69 |
| 1957 | Aga Khan III, leader of ismailieten (Indian transition), dies |
| 1950 | Timotei Popovici, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1948 | Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semite theologist, dies |
| 1948 | King Baggot, actor (Tish, San Francisco), dies at 68 |
| 1944 | Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle |
| 1942 | Simon de la Bella, Dutch president (NVV), dies in Dachau |
| 1937 | George Gershwin, composer (American in Paris), dies at 38 |
| 1926 | Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert and Sown), dies at 57 |
| 1924 | Erich Muhsam, writer, dies at 46 |
| 1921 | Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, dies at 75 |
| 1916 | Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies |
| 1914 | Julius Rodenberg, Levy, German writer (Die Deutsche Rundschau), dies |
| 1909 | Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74 |
| 1898 | Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies |
| 1896 | Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 |
| 1896 | Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36 |
| 1889 | Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34 |
| 1882 | Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday |
| 1876 | Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72 |
| 1874 | Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgian pontifical defense minister, dies at 54 |
| 1847 | Joachim G le Sage at Trousers, RC foreman/publicist, dies at 71 |
| 1826 | Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1806 | James Smith, Irish / U.S. attorney and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 87 |
| 1804 | Alex Hamilton, killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in pistol duel near Weehawken |
| 1781 | Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1768 | Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1763 | Pehr Forskahl, Finnish botanist/explorer, dies |
| 1690 | Friedrich H duke van Schomberg, marshal, dies in battle at 75 |
| 1686 | Michel Anguier, French sculptor, dies at 75 |
| 1667 | John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried |
| 1649 | Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies |
| 1593 | Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1st surrealist painter, dies (birth date unkn) |
| 1553 | Mauritius, duke/monarch of Saksen (1547-53), dies of injuries at 32 |
| 1540 | Jan Szapolyai, anti-king of Hungarian, dies |
| 1535 | Joachim I Nestor, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 51 |
| 1382 | Nicholas van Oresme, French philosopher/bishop of Lisieux, dies at 62 |
| 1302 | Jacques de Chatillon, count of Saint-Pol/Governor of Flaanders, dies |
| 1302 | Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies |
| 1174 | Amalrik I, Morri, French King of Jerusalem, dies |
| 155 | Pius I, bishop of Rome (approx 140-155)/saint/martyr, dies |
