| 2004 | Isabel Sanford, actress, The Jeffersons, dies at 86 |
| 2004 | Paul Klebnikov, journalist, Forbes writer murdered in Russia after writing about corruption, dies at 41 |
| 2002 | Laurence M. Janifer, science fiction writer, dies at 69 |
| 2002 | Rod Steiger, actor, On the Waterfront, dies at 77 |
| 1999 | James L. Farmer, Jr., American Activist |
| 1996 | Christopher Casson, actor (Educating Rita, Zardoz), dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Douglas G Chapman, biomathematical statistician, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Melvin Mouron Belli, attorney/actor (Star Trek), dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Jacques Molicard, translator/Navigator, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | James Cameron Tudor, politician, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Julian Graham Theodore Hough, actor (Deathwatch, Shout), dies at 47 |
| 1995 | W Fenton Morley, preacher, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Cut Meijer, Saul Messel, historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Will Rogers, Jr., (Rep-D)/actor (Boy from Okla), commits suicide at 81 |
| 1992 | Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Kelvin Coe, Australian ballerina (A'sch Ballet/Bolshoi Ballet), dies |
| 1990 | Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69 |
| 1990 | Howard Duff, actor (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 76 of a heart attack |
| 1988 | Anthony Holland, AIDS sufferer committed suicide at 60 |
| 1988 | Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke |
| 1986 | Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered |
| 1986 | Le Duan, Vietnamese politician, dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Rafael Campos, actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V), dies of cancer at 49 |
| 1984 | Randall Thompson, U.S. composer (Trip to Nahant), dies at 85 |
| 1981 | Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password), dies at 61 |
| 1981 | Oscar van Hemel, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1981 | Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87 |
| 1979 | Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53 |
| 1979 | Cornelia Otis Skinner, dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Abdul Razak al-Naif, premier of Iraq, murdered |
| 1978 | Aladar Zoltan, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1977 | Loren C Eiseley, U.S. anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69 |
| 1977 | Alice Paul, American Activist |
| 1974 | Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Netherlands choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Earl Warren, American Judge |
| 1972 | Kwame Nkrumah, re-buried in Nkroful Ghana |
| 1969 | Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies |
| 1969 | Gladys Swarthout, U.S. mezzo-soprano/alt (La Gioconda), dies at 64 |
| 1969 | Pierre Capdevielle, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1969 | Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51 |
| 1968 | Vardis A. Fisher, U.S. writer, Darkness and Deep, dies at 73 |
| 1968 | Allyn Edwards, host (One Minute Please, Mr. Citizen), dies at 53 |
| 1968 | John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62 |
| 1968 | Vardis A Fisher, U.S. writer (Passion Spin the Plot), dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Douglas MacLean, silent film comedian turned producer, dies at 77 |
| 1963 | Frank Mayo, actor (Santa Fe Trail), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1962 | Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74 |
| 1962 | Georges Bataille, French Writer |
| 1961 | Alan Marshal, actor (Lydia, Irene, Exile Express), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Edward Burlingame Hill, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1957 | Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1956 | Renee Erdos, Hungarian literary (Leanyalmok [Dream Girl]), dies |
| 1951 | Harry Heilmann, baseball hall of famer outfielder (Det), dies at 56 |
| 1951 | Jorgen Bentzon, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1949 | Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1934 | Otakar Zich, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1932 | Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies |
| 1909 | Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62 |
| 1883 | Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1875 | Francis Preston Blair, Jr., famed St. Louis lawyer, dies at 54 |
| 1850 | Bab, Baha'i prophet, executed in Tabriz Iran |
| 1850 | Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism |
| 1850 | Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-50), dies in White House at 65 |
| 1845 | Jacob earl of Rechteren/Appeltern, Governor of Gelderland, dies at 57 |
| 1843 | Washington Allston, U.S. painter/author, dies at 63 |
| 1821 | Tommaso Sogner, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1805 | Georg W. "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76 |
| 1797 | Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 |
| 1766 | Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman |
| 1756 | Pieter Langendijk, painter/etcher/playwright, dies at 72 |
| 1755 | E Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French and Indian War |
| 1755 | Gottlob Harrer, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1747 | Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76 |
| 1746 | Philip V, French King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46), dies at 62 |
| 1737 | de' Medici, last Medici-grand duke of Toscane, dies |
| 1716 | Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63 |
| 1696 | Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies |
| 1677 | Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies |
| 1654 | Ferdinand, son of RC emperor Ferdinand III, dies |
| 1639 | Entonius Walaeus, calvinist theologist, dies at 65 |
| 1441 | Jan/Johannes van Eyck, Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), dies |
