| 2003 | Gregory Peck, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, dies at 87 |
| 2002 | Bill Blass, designer, dies at 79 |
| 1999 | J. F. Powers, American Novelist |
| 1998 | Theresa Merritt, actress, That's My Mama, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Peter Blos, psychoanalyst/writer, The Adolescent Passage, dies at 93 |
| 1996 | Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O. J., murdered at 35 |
| 1994 | Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27 |
| 1992 | Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies |
| 1992 | Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies |
| 1992 | Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies |
| 1990 | Terence O'Neil, lord/Prime Minister of Ulster 1963 - 1969, dies |
| 1989 | Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1988 | Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87 |
| 1986 | Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo and Juliet), dies at 82 |
| 1980 | Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75 |
| 1972 | Edmund Wilson, U.S. writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 |
| 1972 | Saul Alinsky, American Activist |
| 1968 | Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1966 | Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74 |
| 1966 | Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Andrew Browne, Irish/British Admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80 |
| 1963 | Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37 |
| 1962 | John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82 |
| 1957 | James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, U.S. orchestra leader, dies at 53 |
| 1952 | Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83 |
| 1947 | Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1946 | Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese Field Marshal, dies |
| 1942 | Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1941 | Guy de Pourtales, Swiss/French writer (Pache miraculous), dies |
| 1936 | Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies |
| 1936 | Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62 |
| 1932 | Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and writer (Book of Love), dies |
| 1932 | Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer and Dutch Secretary of State1866 - 1888, dies at 79 |
| 1928 | Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies |
| 1922 | Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63 |
| 1917 | Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1912 | Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies |
| 1911 | George Dorsey, American Politician |
| 1888 | Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62 |
| 1887 | Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1878 | Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26 |
| 1858 | Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74 |
| 1858 | William Horsley, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1853 | John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60 |
| 1850 | Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 |
| 1840 | Gerald Griffin, American Author |
| 1789 | Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies |
| 1788 | Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65 |
| 1778 | Philip Livingston, U.S. merchant, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 62 |
| 1761 | Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1759 | William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37 |
| 1687 | Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried |
| 1675 | Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40 |
| 1616 | Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies |
| 1490 | Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39 |
| 1231 | Antonius van Padua, Fernando M de Bulhom, Port minister, dies at 35 |
| 816 | Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies |
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