| 2008 | Bronislaw Geremek, dies in Poland, in a car accident, at 76 |
| 2004 | Carlos Kleiber, conductor, dies at 74 |
| 2002 | Yousuf Karsh, photographer, dies at 93 |
| 1997 | Alexandra Danilova, ballet great |
| 1996 | Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32 |
| 1993 | Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31 |
| 1992 | Alex Wojciechowicz, NFLer (Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist, dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies |
| 1990 | Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1989 | Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered |
| 1989 | Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed |
| 1988 | Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51 |
| 1988 | Samuel L Mendel, oldest U.S. war veteran, dies at 104 |
| 1987 | Patience Collier, dies |
| 1982 | Edith Heerdegen, dies at 69 |
| 1982 | John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies |
| 1979 | Corine Griffith, dies at 84 |
| 1978 | Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1976 | Max Butting, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1974 | Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Lon Chaney, Jr., actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67 |
| 1973 | Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51 |
| 1967 | Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies |
| 1960 | Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55 |
| 1958 | Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday |
| 1956 | Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1955 | Beulah Ecton Woodard, U.S. sculptor, dies at 59 |
| 1955 | Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging |
| 1954 | Irving Pichel, dies at 63 |
| 1954 | M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera, dies at 47 |
| 1954 | Grantland Rice, American Journalist |
| 1951 | Arnold Schonberg, Austria/US composer (Verklarte Nacht), dies at 76 |
| 1951 | Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian Composer |
| 1946 | Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82 |
| 1943 | Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50 |
| 1936 | Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1936 | Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43 |
| 1927 | James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies |
| 1925 | Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies |
| 1923 | Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German composer, dies at 80 |
| 1903 | August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1894 | Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1890 | John C "Pathfinder" Fremont, U.S. explorer/governor (Ariz), dies at 76 |
| 1890 | John Charles Fremont, American Soldier |
| 1889 | Carli Zoeller, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1877 | Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65 |
| 1863 | John S Bowen, U.S. architect/Confederate General-major, dies at 32 |
| 1861 | Robert Selden Garnett, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41 |
| 1860 | John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69 |
| 1844 | Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1831 | James Northcote, English Artist |
| 1813 | Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1807 | Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman |
| 1793 | Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday |
| 1785 | Stephen Hopkins, U.S. judge/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 78 |
| 1777 | Guillaume Coustou, Jr., French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61 |
| 1762 | James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies |
| 1755 | Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh |
| 1621 | Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61 |
| 1380 | Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60 |
| 1309 | Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1105 | Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki, Jewish intellectual, dies |
| 1024 | Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies |
| 939 | Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies |
| 574 | John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies |
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