| 2008 | George Tibbits, composer, architect, works include, Otway Ranges Symphony, Battue, dies |
| 2003 | Buddy Ebsen, actor/dancer, TV's The Beverly Hillbillies, dies at 95 |
| 2002 | John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72 |
| 2000 | Wladyslaw Szpilman, pianist/writer, ", write Death of a City, later filmed as The Pianist, ", dies at 78 |
| 1998 | Roy Rogers, cowboy actor, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Aziz Nesin, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75 |
| 1994 | Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46 |
| 1993 | Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies |
| 1991 | Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78 |
| 1990 | Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41 |
| 1990 | Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at 46 |
| 1989 | Janos Kadar, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77 |
| 1982 | Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72 |
| 1980 | Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69 |
| 1979 | Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr. DJ, Hustle), dies at 35 |
| 1977 | Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1975 | Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies |
| 1974 | Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1973 | Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80 |
| 1973 | Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88 |
| 1973 | Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63 |
| 1972 | Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash |
| 1972 | Sam de Grasse, dies at 97 |
| 1972 | Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies |
| 1971 | Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71 |
| 1971 | Thomas C Heart, U.S. admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies |
| 1970 | Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80 |
| 1966 | Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50 |
| 1962 | William [Harrison] Faulkner, U.S. writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64 |
| 1962 | William Faulkner, American Novelist |
| 1961 | Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93 |
| 1961 | Enrique Larreta, E Rodriguez Maza, Argentine diplomat/writer, dies |
| 1960 | Aneurin Bevan, English Politician |
| 1959 | George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65 |
| 1955 | Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1954 | Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70 |
| 1951 | Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1934 | Warden Uncle, Edward Vermeulen, Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73 |
| 1933 | Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1918 | Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies |
| 1916 | Odilon Redon, French painter/author (A soi-mame), dies at 76 |
| 1914 | Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27 |
| 1902 | Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1896 | Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1879 | Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1871 | Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 |
| 1868 | Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1864 | Samuel Allen Rice, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies of injuries at 36 |
| 1863 | Strong Vincent, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1860 | Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1858 | Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1835 | John Marshall, American Judge |
| 1816 | Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1802 | Daniel Morgan, American Soldier |
| 1795 | Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1768 | Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1765 | Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1762 | Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34 |
| 1734 | Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1701 | William Kidd, English / U.S. buccaneer, hanged |
| 1587 | Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed |
| 1583 | Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64 |
| 1568 | Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61 |
| 1553 | Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15 |
| 1535 | Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57 |
| 1533 | Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 |
| 1480 | Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1476 | Regiomontanus, Johannes Muller of Konigsberg, dies |
| 1415 | Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany |
| 1189 | Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56 |
