| 2003 | John Schlesinger, director, Midnight Cowboy, dies at 77 |
| 2000 | John W. Tukey, professor/computer theorist, The Practice of Data Analysis, dies at 85 |
| 1997 | Ben Hogan, golfer, Masters, British Open, U.S. Open-1953, dies at 84 |
| 1997 | Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62 |
| 1995 | Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67 |
| 1993 | Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday |
| 1992 | Alfred Drake, Broadway actor (Oklahoma), dies of heart failure at 78 |
| 1992 | Hope Miller, actress (Bwana Devil), dies of breast cancer at 63 |
| 1991 | Brian Haines, actor (Adv of Robin Hood, It), dies at 70 |
| 1991 | Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies |
| 1991 | Toni Gerry, actress (Bullet for Joey, Lust for Life), dies at 61 |
| 1987 | Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce, dies of internal injuries |
| 1986 | Theodore H "Ted" Lyons, pitcher (Chicago White Sox), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76 |
| 1983 | Jerome Moross, U.S. composer (Frankie and Johnny), dies at 69 |
| 1982 | Beene Dubbelboer, writer (Turfgasgenerator), dies at 76 |
| 1981 | Ian Martin, actor (Uncle Bill-O'Neills), dies at 69 |
| 1971 | Leroy Robertson, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1969 | Douglas Stuart Moore, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1969 | Otto Dix, German Artist |
| 1967 | W Gombrowicz, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1966 | Frank O'Hara, writer, dies at 40 |
| 1966 | Montgomery Clift, movie actor (From Here to Eternity), dies |
| 1961 | J H F Gronloh, Nescio, author (Above the Vale), dies at 80 |
| 1959 | Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71 |
| 1958 | "Sensational" Sherri Martel, woman's wrestling champ (WWF) |
| 1958 | Harry Warner, U.S. movie pionier (Warner Bros), dies at 81 |
| 1955 | Ilmari Hannikainen, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1955 | Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1952 | Herbert Murrill, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1950 | E Langgasser, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1946 | Narziss Oh, German psychology, dies |
| 1944 | Lesley J McNair, U.S. Lieutenant-General, killed by U.S. bomb at St-Lo |
| 1934 | Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by nazis |
| 1927 | Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies |
| 1922 | Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1918 | Carlos Guido y Spano, Arg poet (Mexico, canto epico), dies |
| 1918 | Franiska zu Reventlow, writer, dies at 47 |
| 1912 | Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76 |
| 1911 | Filippo Capocci, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1887 | Henry Mayhew, English Journalist |
| 1866 | Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies |
| 1864 | Clement Hoffman Stevens, U.S. banker/inventor/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 42 |
| 1857 | Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1853 | Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/U.S. military man, murdered |
| 1846 | Louis Bonaparte, French Royalty |
| 1834 | S T Coleridge, writer, dies at 61 |
| 1834 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61 |
| 1826 | Pavel I Pestel, Russian officer, hanged at 33 |
| 1814 | Charles Dibdin, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1804 | William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies |
| 1794 | Andre-Marie Chenier, French poet (Avis aux Franeais sur leurs), dies |
| 1791 | Isaac Low, American Businessman |
| 1759 | Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39 |
| 1759 | Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies |
| 1739 | Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogy/chronologist, dies at 73 |
| 1721 | Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral of Zealand, dies at 66 |
| 1675 | Nicolas Saboly, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1624 | Steven van der Haghen, admiral/Governor on Ambon 1617 - 1618, dies at about 61 |
| 1616 | Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies |
| 1593 | Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61 |
| 1580 | Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 |
| 1570 | Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed |
| 1564 | Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61 |
| 1539 | Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65 |
| 1492 | Innocent VII, Giovanni B Cibo, Italian Pope (1484-92), dies |
| 1471 | John Soreth, French general, dies |
| 306 | Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies |
