| 2001 | Poul Anderson, writer, Operation Chaos, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies |
| 1997 | Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian, dies at 63 |
| 1997 | Bao Dai, ex-monarch, last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Edith Fore, pitchwoman, I've fallen and I can't get up!, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Genevieve Tobin Keighley, actress (Zaza, Great Gambini), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Caitlin Thomas, dies |
| 1994 | G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies |
| 1994 | Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92 |
| 1993 | Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems |
| 1993 | Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Paul Henry, U.S. Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51 |
| 1992 | G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72 |
| 1992 | Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1992 | Ralph Strait, dies of heart attack at 56 |
| 1992 | Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies |
| 1990 | Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72 |
| 1988 | Trinidad Silva, killed in auto accident at 38 |
| 1986 | Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, U.S. jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73 |
| 1985 | Eugene Carson Blake, Secretary-General World Council of Churches, dies at 78 |
| 1984 | Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79 |
| 1984 | Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103 |
| 1981 | General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash |
| 1980 | Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49 |
| 1979 | Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat, Staircase), dies at 76 |
| 1978 | Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80 |
| 1978 | Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70 |
| 1977 | Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20 |
| 1972 | Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/secretary-general (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Charles Edison, American Businessman |
| 1968 | Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66 |
| 1967 | Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1967 | Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies |
| 1966 | Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87 |
| 1965 | James Rennie, actor (Wilson, Skylark, Illicit), dies at 75 |
| 1964 | Jim Reeves, U.S. country singer, dies in air crash at 39 |
| 1960 | Karl Hasse, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1953 | Robert Taft, Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, dies in New York at 63 |
| 1951 | J of Oudshoorn, John K Feylbrief, writer (Maze of Sentences), dies |
| 1948 | Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Female Revue), dies at 70 |
| 1944 | Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44 |
| 1942 | Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer, dies at 79 |
| 1940 | Whitney Krakower, U.S. gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel |
| 1932 | Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1921 | Edgar Saltus, American Writer |
| 1914 | A J Jean Jaures, French socialist (L'Humanite/Les Preuves), murdered= |
| 1891 | Jean-Baptist Capronnier, French/Belgian painter, dies at 77 |
| 1886 | Franz von Liszt, Ferencz, Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74 |
| 1875 | Andrew Johnson, 17th president, dies in Tennessee at 66 |
| 1864 | Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64 |
| 1811 | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish |
| 1795 | Jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54 |
| 1790 | Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1784 | Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies |
| 1763 | James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies |
| 1750 | Johan V, King of Portugal, dies |
| 1693 | Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73 |
| 1648 | Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60 |
| 1566 | Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92 |
| 1556 | Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65 |
| 1556 | St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome |
| 1556 | Saint Ignatius, Spanish Saint |
| 1358 | Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies |
