| 2005 | James Jarrell Pickle, American Politician |
| 2005 | J. J. Pickle, Representative-D-Texas 1963 - 1995, died of cancer |
| 2002 | Jack Buck, American Celebrity |
| 2000 | Nancy Marchand, actress, The Sopranos, dies at 71 |
| 1996 | Maitland Mackie, farmer, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75 |
| 1992 | Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48 |
| 1991 | Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1987 | Bruce Marshall, writer, dies at 87 |
| 1982 | Curt Jurgens, actor (Disorder), dies of an acute heart attack at 66 |
| 1982 | Djuna Barnes, writer, dies |
| 1982 | John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining |
| 1982 | Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself |
| 1975 | Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded in Riyadh shopping center parking lot for killing his uncle the king |
| 1974 | Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1973 | Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55 |
| 1973 | Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil President (1964-67), dies at 66 |
| 1965 | George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1964 | Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1962 | Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Bruckner), dies at 82 |
| 1961 | George H. Bender, Representative-R-Ohio 1939 - 1954, Senator-R-Ohio 1954 - 1957 |
| 1959 | Ethel Barrymore, Blythe, actress (None but the lonely), dies at 79 |
| 1955 | Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1955 | Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1952 | Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63 |
| 1946 | Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist |
| 1945 | Colonel Roberts, commandant 22nd regiment marines, dies in battle |
| 1945 | Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action |
| 1942 | Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down |
| 1942 | Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1942 | John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28 |
| 1942 | Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich |
| 1939 | French LM "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish actor, dies at 73 |
| 1937 | Gaston Doumergue, premier/president of France (1913..34), dies |
| 1936 | Maxim Gorki, Alexei M Peshkov, Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68 |
| 1936 | Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist |
| 1935 | August Reusner, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1934 | Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1928 | Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies |
| 1928 | Roald Amundsen, Norwegian Explorer |
| 1922 | John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71 |
| 1921 | Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguay writer (Nativa, Lanza y Sable), dies |
| 1921 | Herman Baccaert, Flemish philological/writer (Kantkennis), dies at 37 |
| 1916 | Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67 |
| 1916 | Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed |
| 1911 | Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1909 | Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1902 | Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66 |
| 1886 | Joannes A Paredis, Belgian/Netherlands bishop of Roermond, dies at 90 |
| 1884 | Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74 |
| 1884 | Matthew Simpson, American Clergyman |
| 1880 | John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77 |
| 1876 | August Rockel, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1866 | Jacobus T Abels, painter, dies at 62 |
| 1859 | Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1853 | Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising), dies |
| 1850 | Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99 |
| 1824 | Ferdinand III JJ-B, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane, dies at 55 |
| 1821 | Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1817 | Joannes Siberg, governor-general of Netherlands-Indies (1801-05), dies |
| 1805 | Arthur Murphy, Irish Writer |
| 1799 | Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1772 | Gerard of Swieten, botanist/painter of Maria Theresia, dies at 72 |
| 1726 | Michel-Richard Delalande, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1686 | Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1669 | Abraham Crijnssen, Swiss admiral, conquered Suriname, dies |
| 1667 | Louise Henriette, daughter of Frederik Hendrik, dies at 39 |
| 1629 | Piet Heyn, lt-admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies in battle at 51 |
| 1588 | Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24 |
| 1580 | Juliana van Stolberg, Engraver of Nassau, dies |
| 1464 | Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter, dies at 65 |
| 1291 | Alfonso III, King of Aragon (1285-91), dies |
| 1164 | Elisabeth von Schonau, German mystic (Visiones), dies at about 34 |
| 741 | Leo III de Isaurier, Byzantine Emperor (717-41), dies |
