| 1997 | Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Hans Fellner, bookseller, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Fabio Casartelli, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race, died during 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France, in a crash occurring on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in the Pyrenees |
| 1994 | Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93 |
| 1993 | John Beck, U.S. producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76 |
| 1993 | Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35 |
| 1993 | Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin, Chief designer of Soviet launch pads, dies |
| 1992 | Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies |
| 1992 | Mollie Parnis, fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower), dies |
| 1992 | Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies |
| 1991 | Andre Cools, Belgian budget minister, murdered at 63 |
| 1990 | Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78 |
| 1990 | Karl Menninger, psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer |
| 1989 | Donnie Moore, pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35 |
| 1989 | Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam), is shot by a fan at 21 |
| 1988 | Nico, U.S. model/pop singer (Velvet Underground), dies at 43 |
| 1987 | Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Stanley Rous, British soccer official, dies at 91 |
| 1984 | James Oliver Huberty, shot by police after killing 21 in McDonalds |
| 1981 | Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87 |
| 1975 | Federico Ghisi, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Jack Hawkins, actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Lucien H d'Azambuja, French astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86 |
| 1969 | Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 57 |
| 1967 | Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-87), dies at 66 |
| 1966 | Bobby Fuller, rocker, singer, guitarist, most famous single titled, I Fought the Law, written by Sonny Curtis, first top 40 hit, Let Her Dance, influences include The Beatles, Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, found dead at 22 |
| 1966 | German Germanovich Galinin, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1965 | Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1961 | Kit Guard, dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1958 | Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84 |
| 1958 | John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67 |
| 1956 | Willem J A Kerncamp, Dut overseas minister (Islam and Woman), dies at 57 |
| 1950 | Carl Clinton Van Doren, U.S. literary (The Nation), dies at 64 |
| 1949 | Vitezslav Augustin R Novak, Slovak composer (Profundis), dies at 78 |
| 1944 | George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60 |
| 1944 | Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 |
| 1942 | George Sutherland, English Judge |
| 1941 | Dionyssios Lavrangas, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1939 | Witold Maliszewski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1938 | Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35 |
| 1915 | George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1908 | Jaime Nuno, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1902 | John White, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1901 | Alfredo Carlo Piatti, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1899 | Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies |
| 1898 | Emil Hartmann, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1894 | Leconte de Lisle, writer, dies at 75 |
| 1892 | Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 |
| 1872 | Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 |
| 1863 | William Dorsey Pender, U.S. Confederate general-major, dies of injuries at 29 |
| 1863 | Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier |
| 1854 | Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41 |
| 1833 | Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63 |
| 1831 | Thomas Greatorex, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1817 | Jane Austen, writer, dies |
| 1735 | Johann Krieger, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1721 | Jean Antoine Watteau, French painter, dies |
| 1710 | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36 |
| 1695 | Joannes Camphuys, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies at 61 |
| 1650 | Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 |
| 1642 | Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Governor of Ft. Emmerik/Heusden, dies |
| 1639 | Bernard, duke of Saksen-Weimar (Rheinfelden), dies |
| 1608 | Joachim III Frederik, ruler (Brandenburg), dies at 61 |
| 1591 | Jakob Handl, Petelin, Austrian composer/bandmaster, dies at 40 |
| 1544 | Rene van Chalon, viceroy of Holland, dies in battle at 25 |
| 1374 | Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 |
| 1100 | Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies |
| 640 | Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58 |
