| 2007 | Beverly Sills, dies of lung cancer at 78 |
| 2003 | Ivan Allen, American Politician |
| 2000 | Joey Dunlop, Irish Celebrity |
| 1999 | Mario Puzo, writer, The Godfather, dies at 78 |
| 1998 | Kay Thompson, American Author |
| 1997 | James Stewart, actor, It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Hugh Davson, physiologist/writer, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show), dies of cancer at 89 |
| 1995 | George Seldes, journalist, dies at 104 |
| 1995 | Gervase F Ashworth Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | Krissy Taylor, born in Miami, Florida, model, sister of supermodel, Niki Taylor, dies of respitory problems at 17 |
| 1994 | Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US |
| 1994 | Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66 |
| 1994 | Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59 |
| 1993 | Don Drysdale, pitcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 56 |
| 1993 | Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66 |
| 1992 | Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies |
| 1992 | Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42 |
| 1992 | Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies |
| 1992 | Jose Monje, Camaron de la Isla, Spanish flamenco singer, dies |
| 1991 | Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine and Roses), dies of cancer at 55 |
| 1990 | Muntu Myeza, South Africa anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39 |
| 1990 | Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76 |
| 1989 | Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician |
| 1987 | Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia |
| 1987 | Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44 |
| 1984 | Ramiro Cortes, composer, Fulbright Fellow, taught composition at University of California, University of Utah, dies at 50 in Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1982 | Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1981 | Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies |
| 1977 | Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78 |
| 1977 | Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist |
| 1976 | Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73 |
| 1975 | James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr. om Love), dies at 70 |
| 1973 | Betty Grable, U.S. actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56 |
| 1973 | George Macready, U.S., actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500 |
| 1972 | Joseph F Smith, Jr., leader U.S. mormon chuch, dies at 95 |
| 1971 | Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1970 | Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies |
| 1968 | Francis Brennan, U.S. cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88 |
| 1964 | Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash |
| 1961 | Ernest Hemingway, writer, commits suicide at 61 |
| 1952 | Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56 |
| 1951 | Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75 |
| 1949 | Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67 |
| 1946 | Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81 |
| 1940 | Ben[jamin] Turpin, U.S. comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies |
| 1940 | Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1939 | Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies |
| 1937 | Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40 |
| 1937 | Fred L Noonan, U.S. navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean |
| 1936 | Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60 |
| 1935 | Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies |
| 1932 | Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43 |
| 1930 | Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59 |
| 1929 | Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34 |
| 1926 | Emile Coue, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies |
| 1918 | Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies |
| 1917 | Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies |
| 1917 | William Henry Moody, American Politician |
| 1915 | General Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies |
| 1914 | Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78 |
| 1911 | Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1895 | William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1878 | Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1863 | Stephen Hinsdale Weed, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 28 |
| 1861 | Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31 |
| 1850 | Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 |
| 1843 | Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88 |
| 1822 | Denmark Vesey, and 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC |
| 1798 | John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies |
| 1794 | Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1778 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1778 | Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher |
| 1743 | Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies |
| 1708 | Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/Lieutenant-General/baron Enfield, dies |
| 1700 | Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77 |
| 1663 | Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1644 | William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24 |
| 1619 | Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies |
| 1566 | Nostradamus, Michel de Nostre-Dam, French astrologist, dies at 62 |
| 1504 | Stefanus III Bogdanowitsj, ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies |
| 1298 | Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43 |
| 936 | Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies |
| 783 | Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies |
