| 2008 | Jesse Helms, dies in North Carolina, at 86 |
| 2005 | Hank Stram, American Athlete |
| 2003 | Barry White, man with velvet voice, ", Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, ", dies at 58 |
| 2002 | "General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr", Air Force General, first black general in the Air Force, dies at 89 |
| 2001 | Mordecai Richler, Canadian Novelist |
| 1997 | Charles Kuralt, news anchor for CBS Sunday Morning, dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Clay Jones, gardener, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr, dies at 58 |
| 1995 | Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52 |
| 1995 | Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, dies of stomach cancer at 67 |
| 1994 | Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies |
| 1993 | Anne Shirley, actress (Stella Dallas), dies of lung cancer at 75 |
| 1993 | Charles Crain, actor, dies in Hollywood at 83 |
| 1993 | Felix White, choreographer (Black Vibrations Theatre), dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Astor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (Tango Nuevo), dies at 71 |
| 1992 | Joe Newman, U.S. jazz trumpetist (Count Basie), dies |
| 1988 | Adrian Adonis, [Keith Franke], WWF wrestler, killed in auto accident |
| 1986 | Flor Peeters, Flemish baron/organist/composer, dies at 83 |
| 1985 | John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83 |
| 1983 | Claus Adam, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1982 | Sylvestre A Guzman Fernandez, President Dominican Rep, commits suicide |
| 1980 | Gregory Bateson, British Scientist |
| 1974 | Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/president Com Palestine, dies |
| 1973 | Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39 |
| 1971 | Thomas C Hart, U.S. admiral/commander (Pacific Fleet), dies at 94 |
| 1970 | Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85 |
| 1970 | Barnett Newman, American Artist |
| 1963 | Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1963 | Grant Richards, actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48 |
| 1962 | Rex Bell, actor/lieutenant governor of Nevada, dies of heart attack at 56 |
| 1961 | Franklyn Farnum, dies of cancer at 83 |
| 1958 | Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright and poet (Avondvlam), dies at 79 |
| 1952 | Walter Long, dies at 73 |
| 1946 | Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71 |
| 1943 | Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/Prime Minister of Poland in exile 1939 - 1943, dies at 62 |
| 1938 | Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56 |
| 1938 | Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia |
| 1934 | "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies |
| 1934 | Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies |
| 1934 | Marie Curie, French Scientist |
| 1931 | Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62 |
| 1931 | Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies |
| 1929 | Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1923 | Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67 |
| 1917 | Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84 |
| 1910 | Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 |
| 1910 | Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1901 | John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], U.S. historian/philosopher, dies |
| 1891 | Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1889 | Auguste Mermet, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1888 | Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 |
| 1863 | Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1856 | Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor, dies at 64 |
| 1854 | Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72 |
| 1851 | Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1848 | Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies |
| 1845 | Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies |
| 1831 | James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), dies at 73 |
| 1826 | John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), dies at 90 |
| 1826 | Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president (1801-09), dies at 83 |
| 1808 | Fisher Ames, Representative-Massachusetts 1789 - 1797, dies |
| 1789 | Claudio M da Costa, Brazilian conductor, dies at 59 |
| 1787 | Charles, prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France, dies at 71 |
| 1780 | Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen South Netherlands, dies at 67 |
| 1768 | Willem van Hairs, Fries nobleman/poet (Suicide), dies at 58 |
| 1757 | Jean-Joseph Vade, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1672 | Ambrosius Reiner, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1672 | Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48 |
| 1627 | Thomas Middleton, Elizabethan dramatist (Women Beware Women), dies |
| 1623 | William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80 |
| 1603 | Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82 |
| 1578 | Charles de Berlaymont, baron of Hierges, gov/viceroy of Names, dies |
| 1541 | Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56 |
| 1519 | Johann Tetzel, (German) monk, dies at about 79 |
| 1498 | Filips van Burgundy, admiral-general of Netherlands, dies |
| 1336 | Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65 |
| 1307 | Rudolf III, Duke of Austria/King of Bohemia dies |
| 1301 | Willem II Berthout van Mechelen, bishop of Utrecht, dies in battle |
| 1187 | Reinoud van Chatillon, French prince of Antioch, dies |
| 966 | Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies |
