| 2003 | Carol Shields, author, The Stone Diaries, dies at 68 |
| 2003 | Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish Philosopher |
| 2000 | Peter McWilliams, writer, Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, dies at 49 |
| 1996 | David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Mel Allen, sportscaster (New York Yankees), dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies |
| 1994 | Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82 |
| 1993 | John B Connally, Governor of Texas/shot with John F. Kennedy in 1963, dies at 76 |
| 1992 | Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies |
| 1991 | Vicky Brown, U.S. singer (Power of Love), dies |
| 1990 | Eva Turner, British soprano, dies |
| 1987 | Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Kain), dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Diana Cooper, English Celebrity |
| 1982 | John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs |
| 1981 | Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered |
| 1981 | John S Knight, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 86 |
| 1979 | Ben Weber, U.S. composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62 |
| 1979 | Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77 |
| 1977 | Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking |
| 1976 | Francis E Meloy, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped and killed |
| 1976 | Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies |
| 1975 | Don Robey, U.S. gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71 |
| 1970 | Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1970 | Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal, dies at 78 |
| 1969 | John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 |
| 1969 | John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25 |
| 1969 | Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1962 | Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Son), dies at 64 |
| 1959 | George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 45 |
| 1958 | Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1948 | Rufus Jones, American Writer |
| 1947 | Jean-Franeois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86 |
| 1946 | Ludwig Winder, writer, dies |
| 1946 | Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1944 | Marc Bloch, French Historian |
| 1941 | Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies |
| 1940 | Dubose Heyward, U.S. writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies |
| 1940 | Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25 |
| 1936 | Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies |
| 1932 | Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies |
| 1930 | Elmer Ambrose Sperry, U.S. inventor (gyroscope compass), dies |
| 1910 | Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1905 | Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51 |
| 1901 | Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies |
| 1892 | Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/Minister of Justice, dies at 80 |
| 1837 | Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1831 | Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1818 | Daniel Smith, American Politician |
| 1815 | Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle |
| 1812 | Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 |
| 1808 | Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1804 | Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1793 | Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies |
| 1752 | Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 |
| 1722 | John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 |
| 1671 | Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow |
| 1651 | Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1644 | Johannes a Sancto Thoma, Poinset, Portuguese theologist, dies at 54 |
| 1620 | Carlo Saraceni, Carlo Veniziano, Italian painter (Judith), dies |
| 1575 | Hadrianus Junius, Adriaen the Jonghe, medical/historian, dies at 63 |
| 1492 | Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded |
| 1361 | John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 |
| 1246 | Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64 |
| 1216 | Innocent III, pope, dies at 54 |
| 956 | Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies |
