| 2007 | Matt Nagle, dies in Massachusetts, of a blood infection, at 27 |
| 2004 | Cotton Fitzsimmons, American Coach |
| 2000 | Thea Porter, '60s Soho designer, dies at 72 |
| 1997 | Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies |
| 1997 | William J. Brennan, jurist, served on the Supreme Court for 34 years (1956-90), dies at 91 |
| 1996 | "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Howard Vernon, actor 'Faceless', 'Delicatessen', dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Virginia Christine, actress (Mrs Olson), dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Jeremiah Jerry Patrick Lordam, songwriter/compser, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics, dies at 26 |
| 1993 | Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies |
| 1993 | Francis Bouygues, French entrepreneur/billionaire, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Lonnie D'Orsa, dies at 96 |
| 1992 | Arlette-Leonie Arletty, dies at 94 |
| 1992 | Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered |
| 1992 | Lillian Oppenheimer, orgamist, dies of a heart attack at 93 |
| 1991 | Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 |
| 1991 | Karl Ellis, dies at 41 |
| 1991 | Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist |
| 1990 | Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 |
| 1989 | Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies |
| 1986 | Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 |
| 1980 | Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54 |
| 1979 | Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65 |
| 1976 | Paul Morand, French Diplomat |
| 1974 | Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air |
| 1974 | Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84 |
| 1974 | James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Mary Frasca, singer/actress, dies in New York City |
| 1972 | Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl |
| 1971 | Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1969 | Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 |
| 1967 | Little Billy Rhodes, dies of stroke at 72 |
| 1966 | Tony Lema, U.S. golfer, dies at 32 |
| 1965 | Constance Bennett, actress (Madame X, Topper), dies at 59 |
| 1965 | Irene Browne, actress (Peg O' My Heart), dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1964 | Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies |
| 1962 | Victor Moore, comedian, dies of heart attack at 86 |
| 1960 | Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68 |
| 1957 | Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72 |
| 1954 | Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 |
| 1950 | Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed |
| 1947 | Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49 |
| 1936 | James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1933 | Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1931 | Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 |
| 1900 | Ferdinand Hamet, Dutch missionary in Mongolia, murdered at 59 |
| 1883 | Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls |
| 1876 | Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1868 | George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies |
| 1865 | Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30 |
| 1862 | Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-41), dies in Kinderhook New York at 79 |
| 1846 | Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81 |
| 1846 | Louis Napoleon, French king of the Netherlands (1806-10), dies at 67 |
| 1842 | John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies |
| 1837 | Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter |
| 1831 | Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1826 | Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1819 | Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1812 | Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1809 | Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1758 | John Dyer, poet, dies |
| 1756 | George Vertue, engraver, dies |
| 1739 | Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday |
| 1712 | Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies |
| 1704 | Istvan Gyongyosi, Hungarian poet (Janos Kemeny), dies in battle |
| 1652 | Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1345 | Jacob van Artevelde, statesman, murdered |
