| 2004 | Jerry Goldsmith, composer, The Omen, dies at 75 |
| 1998 | Alan Shepard, astronaut, first American in space, dies at 74 |
| 1998 | Robert Young, actor, Marcus Welby, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Herb Edelman, actor (Odd Couple, St. Elsewhere), dies of emphysema 62 |
| 1996 | James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50 |
| 1996 | Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr. Who), dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Elleston Trevor, author, dies |
| 1995 | Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67 |
| 1994 | John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | Hugh Scott, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1959 - 1977 |
| 1993 | Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56 |
| 1993 | Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53 |
| 1991 | Theodore Wilson, dies at 47 |
| 1990 | Manuel Puig, Argentina writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57 |
| 1990 | Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70 |
| 1990 | Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65 |
| 1986 | Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed |
| 1986 | Virginia Hewitt, actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies at 60 |
| 1985 | Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65 |
| 1985 | Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney) |
| 1984 | Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34 |
| 1982 | Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69 |
| 1982 | Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58 |
| 1979 | Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 |
| 1976 | Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated |
| 1975 | Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82 |
| 1975 | Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Willem F K Hussem, painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Russell Hardie, dies after long illness at 69 |
| 1972 | Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies |
| 1968 | Ruth St. Denis, U.S. choreography, dies at about 90 |
| 1967 | Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies |
| 1967 | Basil Rathbone, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75 |
| 1967 | Jimmy Foxx, baseball hall of famer (Detroit Tigers/534 home runs), dies at 59 |
| 1967 | Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80 |
| 1966 | Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83 |
| 1957 | Bernard Spooner, U.S. inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies |
| 1950 | Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1948 | Arshile Gorky, abstract expressionist, dies at 43 |
| 1948 | Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1944 | Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau |
| 1944 | Henning von Tresckow, General-Major, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide |
| 1943 | Charles William Paddock, 100m runner, Gold Medal 1920 Olympics, dies at 42 |
| 1928 | Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81 |
| 1928 | Ellen Terry, English Actress |
| 1922 | Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered |
| 1917 | Christopher J. Forster, British RAF-pilot/captain, dies in battle |
| 1910 | Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1899 | Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer |
| 1891 | Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51 |
| 1888 | Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53 |
| 1870 | Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42 |
| 1861 | Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44 |
| 1831 | Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician/poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55 |
| 1821 | Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55 |
| 1796 | Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37 |
| 1782 | Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1717 | Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies |
| 1683 | Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded |
| 1544 | Rene of Chalon [Renatus of Nassau], prince of Orange, slain in battle |
| 1540 | John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies |
| 1425 | Manuel Paleologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425)/writer, dies |
| 1160 | Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies |
