| 2000 | Paul Young, singer, Mike and the Mechanics, dies at 53 |
| 1999 | George Brown, Jr., Representative-D-California 1963 - 1971 and 1973 - 1999, died of complications from surgery |
| 1997 | Alan Charig, paleontologist, BBC science show presenter, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50 |
| 1996 | Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32 |
| 1995 | Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies |
| 1993 | David Brian, U.S. actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78 |
| 1992 | Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies |
| 1991 | Bert Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57 |
| 1990 | Alison Leggatt, actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73 |
| 1990 | Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall |
| 1988 | Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66 |
| 1986 | Benny Rubin, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63 |
| 1983 | Eddie Foy, Jr., actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78 |
| 1980 | Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84 |
| 1980 | Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1977 | Konstantin Fedin, writer, dies |
| 1976 | Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1975 | Charles Weidman, U.S. dancer and choreographer (Fables for Our Time), dies |
| 1971 | Guy Wilkerson, dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1969 | Peter Van Eyck, dies after long illness at 56 |
| 1968 | Lura Anson, dies in Woodland at 76 |
| 1960 | Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63 |
| 1959 | Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies |
| 1958 | Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident |
| 1958 | Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies |
| 1957 | George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74 |
| 1957 | Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87 |
| 1948 | John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87 |
| 1948 | John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier |
| 1947 | Henry Kolker, dies at 76 |
| 1940 | Donald Calthrop, dies at 52 |
| 1940 | Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 |
| 1939 | Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies |
| 1939 | Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies |
| 1937 | Walter Gay, artist, dies |
| 1935 | Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89 |
| 1934 | Jules Renkin, Belgian Prime Minister 1931 - 1932, dies |
| 1933 | Irving Babbitt, U.S. writer (Democracy and Leadership), dies at 67 |
| 1930 | Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies |
| 1929 | Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright and poet, dies |
| 1915 | Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1912 | Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21 |
| 1910 | Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies |
| 1904 | Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44 |
| 1890 | Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1885 | Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer, dies at 48 |
| 1883 | Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44 |
| 1881 | William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21 |
| 1876 | Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82 |
| 1869 | A J Hayne, black captain of Arkansas militia, assassinated |
| 1868 | William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies |
| 1865 | Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55 |
| 1862 | David Emanuel Twiggs, U.S. Confederate general-major (Monterrey), dies at 72 |
| 1857 | Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1856 | Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81 |
| 1854 | Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1839 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies |
| 1810 | Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1798 | Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1789 | Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1784 | Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies |
| 1782 | Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77 |
| 1782 | Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1765 | Charles Andrew Vanloo, painter, dies |
| 1751 | John Wilson, botanist, dies |
| 1738 | Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed |
| 1738 | Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1738 | Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed |
| 1685 | James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed |
| 1609 | Annibale Carracci, painter, dies |
| 1417 | Willem J Eggert, financier (W E Center, Purmerend), dies |
| 1416 | John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies |
| 1411 | Johannes Parvus, Jean Petit, French theologist, dies |
| 1381 | John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged |
| 1291 | Rudolf I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire, dies |
| 1274 | John F Bonaventura, Italian/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies |
| 1085 | Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, dies at 70 |
| 668 | Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37 |
