| 2004 | Ray Charles, blues legend, Georgia on My Mind, dies at 73 |
| 2003 | Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant |
| 2002 | John Gotti, American Criminal |
| 2000 | Frank Patterson, Irish tenor, dies at 61 |
| 2000 | Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57 |
| 2000 | Judd Rose, journalist, dies at 44 |
| 2000 | Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60 |
| 2000 | Brian Statham, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009, dies in Stockport, England, of leukemia, at age 69 |
| 1996 | Hugh Burnton Mitchell, U.S. senator, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Jo Van Fleet, actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella), dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies |
| 1995 | Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Edward Kienholz, U.S. sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1993 | Alice Reinhart, entertainer, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Arleen Auger, U.S. soprano (Matthaus Passion), dies at 53 |
| 1993 | Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77 |
| 1992 | Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure |
| 1992 | Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Morris Kline, American Writer |
| 1991 | Vercors, Jean Bruller, French writer (Silence of Mer), dies |
| 1989 | Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68 |
| 1988 | Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45 |
| 1985 | Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68 |
| 1985 | George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87 |
| 1982 | Addie "Micki" Harris, U.S. singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42 |
| 1982 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36 |
| 1981 | Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68 |
| 1976 | Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/U.S. fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103 |
| 1974 | Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74 |
| 1973 | William M Inge, U.S. playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60 |
| 1971 | Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61 |
| 1971 | Virginia Eames, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82 |
| 1969 | Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64 |
| 1968 | Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Spencer Tracy, U.S. actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67 |
| 1964 | Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1963 | Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74 |
| 1954 | Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1953 | Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1949 | Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67 |
| 1946 | Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20 |
| 1946 | Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident |
| 1946 | Sidney Hillman, American Activist |
| 1944 | French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed |
| 1944 | Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, resister, executed at 41 |
| 1944 | Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 |
| 1943 | Abd al-Azir al-Hasan VI, sultan of Morocco (1894-1907), dies at 62 |
| 1942 | Jean Van Royen, Secretary-General of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63 |
| 1941 | Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78 |
| 1941 | Marcus Garvey, U.S. black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52 |
| 1934 | Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72 |
| 1926 | Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Spanish architect, dies |
| 1924 | Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists |
| 1923 | Gustav Enestrom, Swedish historian, dies at 70 |
| 1923 | Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, dies |
| 1918 | Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1918 | Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet |
| 1903 | Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated |
| 1903 | Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated |
| 1903 | Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies |
| 1902 | Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68 |
| 1901 | Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet |
| 1899 | Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 |
| 1893 | Elek Erkel, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1883 | Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1875 | Duff Green, American Politician |
| 1868 | Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered |
| 1849 | Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1839 | Nathaniel Pryor, Sergeant of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies |
| 1836 | Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies |
| 1834 | Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75 |
| 1800 | Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53 |
| 1727 | George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 |
| 1654 | Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58 |
| 1588 | Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies |
| 1584 | Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince, dies at 28 |
| 1580 | Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies |
| 1560 | Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland |
| 1556 | Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies |
| 1247 | Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies |
| 1190 | Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies |
