| 2008 | Yves Saint Laurent, dies in Paris, France at 71 |
| 2004 | William Manchester, biographer, Douglas McArthur, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | Nikolai Tikhonov, politician, Soviet prime minister 1980-85, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48 |
| 1996 | Fernand Schokweiler, judge, dies at 60 |
| 1996 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Ray Combs, TV host (Family Feud), commits suicide at 40 |
| 1996 | Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41 |
| 1995 | Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader, dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered |
| 1994 | Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies |
| 1992 | Louise Hoff, entertainer, dies at 69 |
| 1992 | Michael King, actor (Lonely are the Brave), dies at 69 |
| 1991 | David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50 |
| 1990 | Eric Barker, actor and writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies |
| 1987 | Errol W. Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados 1961 - 1976, dies at 67 |
| 1987 | Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65 |
| 1985 | Richard Greene, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67 |
| 1983 | Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82 |
| 1983 | Charles Tham, of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, count of Flanders/Prince, dies |
| 1982 | Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies |
| 1981 | Carl Vinson, Representative-D-Georgia 1914 - 1964, dies at 97 |
| 1981 | Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered |
| 1981 | Arthur C. Nielsen, American Businessman |
| 1980 | [Richard] Rube Marquard, U.S. baseball pitcher, dies at 90 |
| 1979 | Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91 |
| 1979 | Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies |
| 1976 | Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 |
| 1975 | Steve Prefontaine, 5K (Olympics-4-1972), dies at 25 |
| 1973 | Harvey S Firestone, Jr., U.S. tire manufacturer, dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Mary Kornman, actress (Desert Trail, Swing it Professor), dies at 57 |
| 1973 | Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76 |
| 1971 | Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist (Nature and Destiny of Man), dies at 78 |
| 1970 | Giuseppe Ungaretti, writer, poet, modernist, academic, best known work 'L'allegria' or 'The Joy', dies in Milan, Italy, at age 82, of bronchopneumonia |
| 1968 | Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 |
| 1968 | [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/interpreter, dies at 57 |
| 1964 | Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1962 | Adolf Eichmann, German Criminal |
| 1960 | Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76 |
| 1955 | F Melius Christiansen, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1955 | Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy), dies |
| 1954 | Martin Anderson Nexo, Danish poet and writer (Pelle Erobreren), dies at 84 |
| 1952 | John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92 |
| 1951 | Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85 |
| 1950 | Valere-Gille, Belgian playwright (Lesson Tombeaux), dies at 83 |
| 1948 | Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee, blues player, dies at 34 |
| 1947 | Emil Hacha, lawyer/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 74 |
| 1946 | Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed |
| 1946 | Leo Slezak, Austria tenor/actor (Mein Lebensmarchen), dies at 72 |
| 1943 | Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50 |
| 1942 | Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1942 | Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50 |
| 1941 | Hugh S Walpole, British writer (Killer and the Slain), dies |
| 1941 | Hans Berger, German Scientist |
| 1940 | Alfred Loisy, French Clergyman |
| 1938 | Odon, Edmund, von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer, dies at 36 |
| 1935 | Alberto Cametti, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1926 | Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1925 | Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'odeon), dies at 64 |
| 1925 | Thomas R. Marshall, American Politician |
| 1918 | Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1918 | Jaroslav Novotny, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1910 | Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 |
| 1909 | Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1876 | Christo Botew, writer, dies |
| 1873 | Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician |
| 1868 | James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president (1857-61), dies at 77 |
| 1864 | Solomon George Washington Dill, poor white ally of blacks, assassinated in his home by white terrorists in SC |
| 1861 | John Q Marr, U.S. Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse |
| 1846 | Gregory XVI, Bartolomeo A Cappellari]/Mauro, Pope dies at 80 |
| 1823 | Louis Nicholas Davout, French Field Marshal, dies at 53 |
| 1811 | William Eaton, American Soldier |
| 1810 | Johann Paul Wessely, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1763 | Johann Caspar Vogler, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1729 | Matthaeus de Cock, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65 |
| 1713 | Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim), dies at 34 |
| 1676 | Creutz, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle |
| 1676 | Uggla, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle |
| 1625 | Honore d'urfe, French writer (L'astree), dies at 67 |
| 1616 | Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japanese Statesman |
| 1568 | Duke of Alva, and 18 nobles, beheaded |
| 1568 | Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded |
| 1557 | Joao III, King of Portugal (1521-57), dies at 54 |
| 1434 | Jagiello, King of Lithuania/Poland, dies |
| 1340 | Jan III van Diest, bishop of Utrecht (1322-40), dies |
| 1191 | Philips van de Elzas, count of Vlanderen, dies |
| 193 | Didius Julianus, ship owner/emperor of Rome (193), murdered at 61 |
