| 2004 | Egon Von Furstenberg, fashion designer, dies at 57 |
| 2003 | David Brinkley, TV journalist, dies at 82 |
| 2003 | William Marshall, actor, Blacula, dies at 78 |
| 1999 | DeForest Kelley, actor, Star Trek, dies at 79 |
| 1997 | Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert, Making Things Grow, dies of Alzheimer's at 87 |
| 1996 | Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], actress (Gloria), dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21 |
| 1996 | Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49 |
| 1995 | Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58 |
| 1995 | Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44 |
| 1994 | Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40 |
| 1992 | Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103 |
| 1992 | Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer |
| 1992 | Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39 |
| 1991 | Vlastimil Fisar, Czechoslovakian actor/president (International Actors Federation), dies |
| 1990 | Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86 |
| 1988 | Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89 |
| 1988 | Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38 |
| 1986 | Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80 |
| 1985 | Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains New Jersey at 31 |
| 1984 | Enrico Berlinguer, Secretary-General (CP) Italy, dies |
| 1981 | Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73 |
| 1979 | August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 |
| 1979 | John Wayne, actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72 |
| 1975 | Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1970 | Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89 |
| 1970 | Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87 |
| 1970 | Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies |
| 1970 | Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55 |
| 1970 | Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant |
| 1969 | John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89 |
| 1969 | Joszi Jeno Tersanszky, Hungarian writer (Till Next Time), dies at 81 |
| 1969 | John L. Lewis, American Leader |
| 1967 | Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82 |
| 1966 | Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68 |
| 1963 | Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon |
| 1956 | Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61 |
| 1956 | Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73 |
| 1955 | Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered |
| 1955 | Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1955 | Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75 |
| 1951 | Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies |
| 1949 | Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed |
| 1949 | Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71 |
| 1943 | Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50 |
| 1936 | Robert E. Howard, American Writer |
| 1930 | Henry Clay Folger, Jr., CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72 |
| 1929 | Gyula Andrassy, Jr., Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68 |
| 1927 | William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies |
| 1924 | Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Jr., Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87 |
| 1924 | Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1923 | Herbert Trench, Irish Poet |
| 1915 | Luis Coloma, Spanish jesuit/writer (Pequeneces, Boy), dies at 64 |
| 1913 | Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered |
| 1912 | Leon Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74 |
| 1908 | Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45 |
| 1906 | Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 |
| 1903 | Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35 |
| 1900 | Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1896 | Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1886 | Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40 |
| 1880 | Jeannette Rankin, Representative-R-Montana 1917 - 1919 and 1941 - 1943, 1st female member of Congress, died at age 92 from natural causes |
| 1879 | Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39 |
| 1859 | Prince Metternich, Austrian Politician |
| 1856 | Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76 |
| 1829 | Adolf Mullner, writer, dies |
| 1828 | Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74 |
| 1825 | Daniel D Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54 |
| 1811 | Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82 |
| 1808 | Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1775 | Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67 |
| 1766 | Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73 |
| 1764 | Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1698 | Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64 |
| 1674 | Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52 |
| 1666 | Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at 55 |
| 1560 | Marie Guise, French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, dies at 44 |
| 1560 | Mary of Lorraine, pro-French Regent of Scotland, dies at 44 |
| 1488 | James III, king of Scotland, dies in battle |
| 1479 | Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies |
| 1249 | Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies |
| 1216 | Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), dies |
