| 2003 | Bob Hope, comedian, road movies, dies at 100 |
| 2002 | Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99 |
| 1996 | Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Ivan V Lalic, poet, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Peter James Frederick Green, CEO (LLoyd's of London), dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Doris Mae Akers, gospel singer/songwriter, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora), dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Rick Ferrell, Hall of Fame catcher, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies |
| 1994 | Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48 |
| 1993 | Reggie Lewis, NBA star (Boston Celtics), dies of heart failure at 27 |
| 1992 | Jenny Karezi, Greek actress (Red Lanterns), dies of cancer at 56 |
| 1991 | Carol Gillies, actress (Back Home, Baby Boom), dies at 50 |
| 1990 | Bobby Day, rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58 |
| 1990 | Elizabeth Allan, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies |
| 1990 | Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at 32 |
| 1990 | Nick Pippins, actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35 |
| 1988 | Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 |
| 1987 | Travis Jackson, baseball player (New York Giants), dies at 83 |
| 1986 | Leroy Holmes, orchestra leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72 |
| 1985 | Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95 |
| 1985 | Smokey Joe Wood, American Athlete |
| 1984 | James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75 |
| 1984 | Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81 |
| 1982 | Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67 |
| 1982 | Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, dies at 28 |
| 1981 | Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies |
| 1981 | Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64 |
| 1981 | William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies |
| 1981 | Paul Brunton, British Philosopher |
| 1980 | Pahlawi Mohammed Reza, shah of Persia (1941-79), dies in Cairo at 60 |
| 1980 | Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Royalty |
| 1979 | Ettore Manni, actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52 |
| 1979 | Shirley Mason, actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79 |
| 1978 | Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1978 | [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor and composer (Symphonic), dies at 70 |
| 1976 | Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease" |
| 1974 | Lightning Slim, blues singer (Nothing But the Devil), dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Allen J. Ellender, American Politician |
| 1971 | Bernhard Paumgartner, Austrian conductor/composer, dies at 83 |
| 1970 | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies |
| 1968 | Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem J M A Asselbergs], literary, dies |
| 1968 | Lillian Harvey, actress (Invitation to the Waltz), dies at 61 |
| 1962 | Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies |
| 1962 | Richard Adlington, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1961 | Theodore Chanler, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1960 | Vasa Prihoda, Czechoslovakian violinist, dies at 59 |
| 1952 | W de Basil, [US Voskresenski], Russia, ballet dancer, dies |
| 1948 | Francesco Spetrino, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1946 | Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 |
| 1944 | Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1942 | William Matthew Finders Petrie, Egyptologist, dies |
| 1934 | Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79 |
| 1924 | Ferruccio Benvenuto busoni, pianist/composer, dies |
| 1924 | Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1921 | Engelbert Humperdinck, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1916 | Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies |
| 1901 | Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian |
| 1883 | Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1883 | Montgomery Blair, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70 |
| 1881 | Johann Christian Lobe, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1864 | Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies |
| 1844 | John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 |
| 1841 | Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies |
| 1841 | Mikhail Lermontov, Russian Poet |
| 1834 | Charles Lamb, English Critic |
| 1833 | Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 |
| 1828 | Gilbert Charles Stuart, painter, dies |
| 1822 | Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1811 | Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed |
| 1783 | Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 |
| 1777 | William Hayes, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1759 | Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60 |
| 1720 | Johann Samuel Welter, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1689 | John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies |
| 1675 | Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies |
| 1638 | Johan VIII de Jongere, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 54 |
| 1498 | Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77 |
| 1233 | Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45 |
| 1227 | Otto II van Lippe, bishop of Utrecht (1216-27), dies |
| 1214 | Eustaes van Machelen, Flemish knight, dies in battle |
| 1214 | Stefan van Longchamp, French knight, dies in battle |
| 1128 | Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle |
| 1101 | Koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies |
| 916 | Kliment/Clemens van Ohrid, Bulgaria bishop of Ohrid/saint, dies |
| 432 | Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies |
| 82 | St. Joseph of Arimathea, dies |
