| 2004 | Eugene Roche, actor, Slaughterhouse Five, dies at 77 |
| 2004 | "Francis Crick, Ph. D", DNA researcher, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies at 88 |
| 2004 | Jackson Beck, voice over actor, Popeye, dies at 92 |
| 2002 | Don Pease, Representative-D-Ohio 1977 - 1993 |
| 2000 | Jaime Cardriche, actor/wrestler, Malcolm and Eddie, dies at 32 |
| 1997 | Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand 1945 - 1946, 1975, 1976, dies |
| 1996 | Ivan V. Lalic, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58 |
| 1996 | Roger Tory Peterson, born in Jamestown, New York, ornithologist/writer 'How to Know Birds', dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Bernard Delfont, Russian/British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Conrad W. Monnich, theologist (The Away), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Herbert Joeks, van Hugten, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77 |
| 1991 | Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45 |
| 1990 | Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124 |
| 1990 | Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies |
| 1989 | Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66 |
| 1987 | James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91 |
| 1985 | Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54 |
| 1984 | Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85 |
| 1982 | George Kleinsinger, U.S. composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68 |
| 1980 | Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95 |
| 1979 | George Seaton, American Playwright |
| 1978 | Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1976 | Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62 |
| 1976 | Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69 |
| 1973 | Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80 |
| 1972 | Heal Traubel, U.S. singer (Sieglinde in Walkure, Nightclubs), dies |
| 1971 | Diane Arbus, Nemerov, photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48 |
| 1970 | John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 70 |
| 1969 | Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1969 | Frank H Loesser, U.S. songwriter/composer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 59 |
| 1969 | Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1968 | Charles W. Mayo, U.S. surgeon, dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 |
| 1965 | Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75 |
| 1956 | Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83 |
| 1945 | Margot Asquith, English Author |
| 1940 | Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1939 | William J Mayo, U.S. surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78 |
| 1939 | William J. Mayo, American Scientist |
| 1937 | Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1937 | Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies |
| 1934 | Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64 |
| 1904 | Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies |
| 1898 | William Pepper, American Scientist |
| 1895 | Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72 |
| 1872 | Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies |
| 1869 | Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies |
| 1864 | Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1864 | Samuel Benton, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 44 |
| 1863 | James Deshler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 30 |
| 1850 | Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1849 | Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies |
| 1842 | C Brentano, writer, dies at 63 |
| 1838 | Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1833 | William Bainbridge, American Soldier |
| 1817 | Jane Austen, British Writer |
| 1811 | Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies |
| 1802 | Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72 |
| 1794 | Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39 |
| 1794 | Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined |
| 1794 | Robespierre, and 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers |
| 1778 | Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1750 | Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65 |
| 1746 | John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies |
| 1741 | Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63 |
| 1723 | Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63 |
| 1711 | Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried |
| 1667 | Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies |
| 1655 | Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris |
| 1655 | Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36 |
| 1655 | Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76 |
| 1641 | John Amner, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1540 | Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed |
| 1330 | Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle |
| 1101 | Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 |
| 1057 | Victor II, Gebhard, Pope (1055-57), dies |
| 450 | Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies |
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