| 2009 | Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York |
| 2002 | Jack Olsen, writer, Last Man Standing, dies at 77 |
| 2002 | Alan Lomax, American Writer |
| 2001 | Gunther Gebel-Williams, lion tamer, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77 |
| 1996 | Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen and I Can't Get Up), dies at 87 |
| 1995 | James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies |
| 1994 | Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37 |
| 1993 | Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist and conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies |
| 1992 | Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia |
| 1990 | Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83 |
| 1990 | Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76 |
| 1990 | Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1989 | Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87 |
| 1989 | Nigel Dennis, British Writer |
| 1984 | Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89 |
| 1984 | Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68 |
| 1981 | Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1977 | John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Earl Warren, Governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 49 |
| 1973 | Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29 |
| 1973 | Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33 |
| 1970 | Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61 |
| 1969 | Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28 |
| 1969 | Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies |
| 1965 | Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 |
| 1964 | Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69 |
| 1958 | Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32 |
| 1957 | Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59 |
| 1955 | Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64 |
| 1954 | Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1951 | Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1949 | Frank Murphy, American Politician |
| 1945 | George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80 |
| 1944 | Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated |
| 1944 | Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87 |
| 1944 | Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1940 | Samuel H Chang, U.S. newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai |
| 1930 | Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85 |
| 1922 | Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday |
| 1918 | Joost van Vollenhoven, Netherlands, Governor-General (French West-Africa), dies |
| 1914 | Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82 |
| 1907 | Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 |
| 1895 | Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73 |
| 1895 | Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67 |
| 1892 | Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83 |
| 1882 | Ivan S Gagarin, Catholic theologist (Etudes religieuses), dies at 67 |
| 1852 | Anne-Franeois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83 |
| 1852 | John McKinley, American Politician |
| 1850 | Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned |
| 1850 | [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, dies |
| 1847 | Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1844 | Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1838 | Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1814 | Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40 |
| 1811 | Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1810 | Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34 |
| 1742 | John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45 |
| 1742 | William Somerville, English Poet |
| 1740 | Francois van Aerssen, Dutch Vice-Admiral (Suriname), dies at 71 |
| 1730 | Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1700 | Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1688 | Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50 |
| 1627 | Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41 |
| 1625 | Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1545 | George Carew, English admiral, drowns |
| 1545 | Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns |
| 1534 | Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70 |
| 1374 | Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 |
| 1346 | Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle |
| 1234 | Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament |
| 1054 | Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies |
| 514 | Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies |
