| 2006 | Kenneth Lay, American Businessman |
| 2004 | Syreeta Wright, singer, Don't You Know With You I'm Born Again, dies at 58 |
| 2004 | Rodger Ward, American Celebrity |
| 2003 | N!xau, bushman/actor, The Gods Must Be Crazy, dies at 59 |
| 2002 | Katy Jurado, actress, High Noon, dies at 78 |
| 2002 | Ted Williams, athlete, last person to hit .400 for a season as a major leaguer, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Clyde Wiegand, physicist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Assistant Secretary of State, dies at 67 |
| 1993 | Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (New York Times), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Harrison Salisbury, American Journalist |
| 1992 | Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58 |
| 1991 | Howard Nemerow, U.S. poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies |
| 1991 | Mildred Dunnock, dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46 |
| 1989 | Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1985 | Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86 |
| 1985 | Jack Robertson, South Africa cricket spinner (3 Tests vs. Australia 1935-36), dies |
| 1985 | Marion Byron, actress (Steamboat Bill Jr), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies |
| 1983 | Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies at 67 |
| 1983 | Vaclav Trojan, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1981 | Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1979 | Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87 |
| 1979 | Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76 |
| 1969 | Ben Alexander, dies at 58 |
| 1969 | Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 |
| 1969 | Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86 |
| 1969 | Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85 |
| 1967 | Bruce Barton, American Author |
| 1963 | Daniel Ruyneman, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1951 | James Norman Hall, American Author |
| 1950 | Kenneth Shadrick, Pvt from WV becomes 1st U.S. fatality in Korean War |
| 1950 | Salvatore Giuliano, Sicilian bandit, shot by police |
| 1948 | Carole Landis, U.S. actress (1 Million BC, Topper Returns), dies at 29 |
| 1948 | G Bernanos, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1948 | Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77 |
| 1948 | Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies |
| 1944 | William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1941 | Oskar Fried, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1935 | Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament expert, dies at 58 |
| 1925 | Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1920 | Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 |
| 1911 | George J Stoney, Irish physicist, dies at 85 |
| 1908 | Jonas LI Lie, Norwegian writer (Kommandorens dottre), dies at 74 |
| 1908 | Peter Oliver, English Artist |
| 1907 | Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies at 5 |
| 1905 | Carel V Gerritsen, free thinker, dies |
| 1894 | Betty Paoli, writer, dies |
| 1887 | August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies |
| 1886 | Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 |
| 1884 | Victor Masse, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1883 | Frederick Scotson Clark, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1871 | Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies |
| 1852 | Johann Baptist Weigl, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1803 | William Jackson, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1681 | Fjodor Aleksejevitsj, tsar of Russia, dies |
| 1626 | Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle |
| 1539 | Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies |
