| 2006 | John Money, New Zealander Psychologist |
| 2004 | Jeff Smith, cookbook writer, The Frugal Gourmet, dies at 65 |
| 1997 | Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 80 |
| 1996 | Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40 |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Anita Garvin, U.S. actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96 |
| 1992 | Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer |
| 1990 | Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92 |
| 1988 | Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr. H), dies at 68 |
| 1985 | Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64 |
| 1984 | Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82 |
| 1984 | George Oppen, American Poet |
| 1983 | George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday |
| 1983 | Herman Kahn, U.S. futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71 |
| 1983 | Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30 |
| 1982 | Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76 |
| 1982 | Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63 |
| 1981 | Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58 |
| 1980 | Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Dore Schary, American Producer |
| 1976 | Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 |
| 1976 | Norman Foster, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Barbara Brown |
| 1975 | Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1973 | Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58 |
| 1972 | Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies |
| 1972 | Athenagoras I, Greek Clergyman |
| 1970 | Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67 |
| 1970 | Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies |
| 1970 | Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80 |
| 1970 | Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60 |
| 1969 | Erskine Sanford, dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Gladys Swarthout, U.S. mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69 |
| 1968 | Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53 |
| 1966 | Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65 |
| 1965 | Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies |
| 1959 | Ernest Newman, English Critic |
| 1958 | Raymond Hackett, dies at 55 |
| 1956 | Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70 |
| 1955 | Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1944 | Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies |
| 1944 | Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French Foreign Minister, dies |
| 1939 | James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91 |
| 1933 | John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70 |
| 1930 | Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71 |
| 1919 | Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies |
| 1907 | James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1903 | Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1903 | Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1901 | Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist |
| 1898 | Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies |
| 1893 | Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42 |
| 1889 | Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1885 | Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1865 | Mary Surratt, and 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged |
| 1861 | John Willis Ellis, U.S. governor of North Carolina (1858-61), dies |
| 1826 | Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56 |
| 1816 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish Playwright |
| 1816 | Richard Sheridan, Irish Playwright |
| 1814 | Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71 |
| 1799 | William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53 |
| 1794 | Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1790 | Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68 |
| 1783 | Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (esopischer Fabeln), dies at 64 |
| 1774 | Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1773 | Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60 |
| 1771 | Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54 |
| 1694 | Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies |
| 1656 | Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55 |
| 1647 | Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies |
| 1572 | Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51 |
| 1348 | John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies |
| 1307 | Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68 |
| 1304 | Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies [poisoned] |
| 1129 | Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76 |
