| 2003 | Hume Cronyn, actor, Cocoon, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Ella Fitzgerald, singer, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Fitzroy Maclean, the original James Bond, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Charles Bennett, screenwriter, dies at 95 |
| 1994 | David Lawson, executed in North Carolina (wanted execution shown on Donahue) |
| 1994 | Kristen Pfaff, U.S. bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24 |
| 1994 | Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70 |
| 1993 | John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76 |
| 1993 | Mahfoud Boucebi, Algerian psychiatrist, murdered |
| 1993 | Vera, scarf/linen designer, dies of cardiac arrest at 87 |
| 1992 | Eddie Lopat, pitcher (New York Yankees), dies at 73 |
| 1992 | Leo Halle, soccer goalie (Go Ahead, Orange), dies |
| 1989 | Ray McAnally, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State), dies in Dublin at 63 |
| 1989 | Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 |
| 1987 | Walter W. Heller, U.S. economist (Old Myths and New Realities), dies at 71 |
| 1984 | Meredith Willson, composer (Meredith Willson Show), dies at 82 |
| 1984 | Ned Glass, actor (Charade, Street Music), dies of heart failure at 78 |
| 1982 | Art[hur E] Pepper, U.S., alto saxophonist, dies at 56 |
| 1982 | Neil Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 90 |
| 1979 | Ernst Meister, writer, dies at 67 |
| 1978 | Anton Roosjen, politician/NCRV-chairman, dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies |
| 1968 | Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88 |
| 1968 | Wes Montgomery, jazz guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 48 |
| 1967 | Edward Eagan, boxer, bobsledder, Gold Medal 1920, 1932 Olympics, dies at 69 |
| 1962 | Alfred Cortot, French pianist, dies at 84 |
| 1958 | Francois de Vries, economist, dies at 74 |
| 1952 | Jakob Jud, Swiss linguist/etymologist, dies at 70 |
| 1942 | Vera Figner, writer, dies |
| 1938 | Ernst L Kirchner, German painter, dies at 58 |
| 1934 | Alfred Bruneau, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1923 | Alexander Stamboeliski, premier Bulgaria (1919-23), dies |
| 1920 | Michel-Gaston Carraud, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1907 | William Le Baron Jenney, U.S. architect, dies |
| 1905 | Hermann von Wissmann, German African explorer and Governor East-Africa, dies |
| 1899 | Richard Parks Bland, American Politician |
| 1895 | Richard Genee, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1893 | Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer and conductor (Bank Ban), dies at 82 |
| 1889 | Mihail Eminesco, Romanian poet (Luceafarul), dies at 39 |
| 1888 | Frederik III NK van Hohenzollern, German Emperor/king of Prussia, dies |
| 1875 | Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1869 | Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1865 | Edmun Ruffin, U.S. secessionist/writer, commits suicide |
| 1865 | Jakob Zeugheer, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1858 | Ary Scheffer, painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 63 |
| 1856 | David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73 |
| 1849 | James Knox Polk, 11th President (1845-1849), dies in Nashville, Tennessee at 53 |
| 1845 | Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60 |
| 1844 | Thomas Campbell, poet (Ye Mariners of England), dies at 66 |
| 1839 | Hans Skramstad, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1836 | Theodore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74 |
| 1831 | Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1828 | Brizio Petrucci, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1814 | Charles Palissot de Montenoy, French writer/politician, dies at 84 |
| 1772 | Louis-Claude Daquin, French organist/composer (La Rose), dies at 77 |
| 1760 | Antoine Court, French reformed theologist, dies at 69 |
| 1708 | Romeyn de Hooghe, painter/goldsmith, buried at 62 |
| 1703 | Gillis Schey, Dutch Admiral (battle at Lowestoft), dies at 58 |
| 1702 | Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies |
| 1677 | Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1666 | Pieter de Bitter, Dutch Admiral (Colombo, Goa), dies |
| 1580 | Nicolaas van Nieuwland, corrupt 1st bishop of Haarlem, dies at 70 |
| 1557 | Sebastiaan Van Noyen, military master builder, dies |
| 1467 | Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70 |
| 1397 | Count of Eu, French knight, dies in Turkish captivity |
| 1389 | Lazar I, Serbian prince, dies in battle |
| 1389 | Murad I, Osmaans sultan, dies in battle |
| 1383 | Johannes Cantacuzenus, Byzantium emperor(1341 - 1354) and monk, dies at 90 |
| 1381 | Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London |
| 1341 | Andronicus III Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1328-41), dies |
| 1337 | Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies |
| 1246 | Frederik II "the Strijdbare", duke of Austria, dies in battle at 25 |
| 991 | Theophano, German Empress/wife of Emperor Otto II, dies |
| 948 | Romanus I Lecapenus, Armenian emperor of Byzantium (919-44), dies |
| 923 | Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle |
