| 2007 | Tammy Faye Bakker, dies in Missouri, at 65 |
| 1999 | Sandra Gould, actress, Bewitched, dies at 73 |
| 1997 | Linda Stirling, B movie actress, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried |
| 1994 | Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79 |
| 1991 | Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies |
| 1989 | Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies |
| 1989 | Mary Treen, actress (Career, Rock-a-bye Baby), dies at 71 |
| 1987 | Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63 |
| 1986 | Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Gail Kubik, U.S. composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69 |
| 1984 | Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52 |
| 1983 | Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59 |
| 1979 | Herbert Butterfield, British Historian |
| 1977 | Carter De Haven, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin, dies in Glendale, California, at age 90 |
| 1977 | F G Junger, writer, dies |
| 1974 | Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam, actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32 |
| 1969 | Roy Hamilton, rocker, dies at 40 |
| 1968 | Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies |
| 1966 | Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68 |
| 1962 | Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51 |
| 1962 | George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86 |
| 1959 | Harry Fox II, dies at 77 |
| 1959 | William D. Leahy, American Soldier |
| 1958 | Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69 |
| 1957 | Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46 |
| 1954 | Blair Moody, Sen-Michigan, dies at 52 |
| 1951 | Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem |
| 1951 | Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death |
| 1945 | Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71 |
| 1944 | Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing |
| 1944 | Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies |
| 1944 | Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed |
| 1944 | Heinz Burns, German, Gold Medal 1936 Olympics, dies in bombing |
| 1944 | Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion |
| 1944 | Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies |
| 1944 | Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed |
| 1944 | Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies |
| 1944 | Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds |
| 1944 | Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed |
| 1944 | Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier |
| 1942 | Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle |
| 1940 | Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide |
| 1939 | Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies |
| 1937 | Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies |
| 1936 | Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1936 | Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies |
| 1927 | Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61 |
| 1923 | Pancho Villa, Doroteo Arango, Mexican rebel, murdered at 55 |
| 1914 | Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1908 | Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1903 | Leo XIII, Vincenzo G Pecci, Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93 |
| 1898 | Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1897 | Jean Ingelow, English Poet |
| 1888 | Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies |
| 1881 | Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies |
| 1875 | Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman |
| 1868 | Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1868 | Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1866 | Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide |
| 1866 | G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies |
| 1859 | Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies |
| 1825 | Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1824 | Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies |
| 1819 | John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies |
| 1808 | Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1766 | Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies |
| 1762 | Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies |
| 1752 | John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85 |
| 1732 | Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1636 | John Oldham, trader in Massachusetts, murdered by indians |
| 1613 | Heinrich Julius, von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel, duke, dies |
| 1609 | Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69 |
| 1607 | Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48 |
| 1597 | Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Netherlands publisher, dies |
| 1573 | Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded |
| 1454 | Johan II, King of Castilie, dies at 49 |
| 1322 | Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies |
| 1031 | Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies |
| 833 | Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63 |
