| 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, horticulturalist, broadcaster, Chairman of the program Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4, voted tenth alongside Carol Klein as the nation's all-time favorite 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, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, 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, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto, 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 |
| 1902 | Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments |
| 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 |
