| 2001 | Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84 |
| 2001 | Katherine Graham, American Publisher |
| 2000 | "Raymond E. Portwood, Jr", game creator, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, dies at 66 |
| 1998 | Hugh Reilly, actor, Lassie, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95 |
| 1996 | John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack |
| 1995 | Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56 |
| 1995 | Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Jean Borotra, Flying Basque, French tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95 |
| 1994 | Sebastian Piana, Argentine pianist/tango composer, dies at 91 |
| 1993 | Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Scott Salmon, U.S. choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51 |
| 1993 | Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84 |
| 1990 | Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68 |
| 1989 | I. F. Stone, American Journalist |
| 1988 | Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death |
| 1985 | Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93 |
| 1985 | Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor |
| 1984 | J Delos Jewkes, singer and actor (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 89 |
| 1980 | Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68 |
| 1979 | Doug Meintjes, South Africa cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies |
| 1978 | Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51 |
| 1975 | Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal) |
| 1974 | Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, dies at 63 |
| 1974 | Dizzy Dean, American Athlete |
| 1971 | Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Juano Hernandez, actor (St. Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot and Blue), dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77 |
| 1967 | John Coltrane, U.S. jazz sax/composer, dies at 40 |
| 1966 | August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71 |
| 1965 | Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1961 | Ty Cobb, baseball great, Detroit Tigers, dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1959 | Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44 |
| 1959 | Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies |
| 1957 | John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30 |
| 1955 | Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1954 | Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85 |
| 1953 | Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1953 | Maude K Adams, U.S. actress (Little Minister), dies |
| 1947 | Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34 |
| 1944 | Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies |
| 1937 | Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1928 | Alvaro Obregon, general/president of Mexico, assassinated |
| 1928 | Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies |
| 1922 | Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57 |
| 1918 | Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13 |
| 1918 | Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46 |
| 1918 | Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17 |
| 1918 | Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50 |
| 1918 | Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1918 | Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death |
| 1915 | Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday |
| 1912 | J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 |
| 1903 | James A McNeill Whistler, U.S./British writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 |
| 1903 | James Whistler, American Artist |
| 1901 | John Farmer, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1878 | Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 |
| 1875 | Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1871 | Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1864 | Daniel McCook, Jr., U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 29 |
| 1864 | Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71 |
| 1863 | James Johnston Pettigrew, U.S. attorney/Confederate, dies at 35 |
| 1851 | Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1838 | John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 |
| 1826 | Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1824 | Tench Coxe, American Economist |
| 1794 | Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1793 | Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined |
| 1790 | Adam Smith, Scottish Economist |
| 1764 | Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 |
| 1763 | Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1762 | Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34 |
| 1753 | Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies |
| 1746 | Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53 |
| 1709 | Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1682 | Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1627 | Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67 |
| 1510 | Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies |
| 1510 | Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48 |
| 1070 | Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies |
| 1025 | Boleslaw I Chobry, the brave, duke/king of Poland, dies |
| 924 | Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies |
