| 2005 | Jack Kilby, American Scientist |
| 2003 | Bob Stump, Representative-R-Arizona 1977 - 2003 |
| 2002 | Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71 |
| 2000 | Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor |
| 1999 | Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95 |
| 1997 | Lawrence Payton, singer, The Four Tops, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64 |
| 1996 | Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies |
| 1995 | Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71 |
| 1990 | Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension |
| 1986 | Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71 |
| 1984 | Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99 |
| 1984 | Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30 |
| 1980 | Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1978 | Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66 |
| 1978 | Mark Robson, Canadian Director |
| 1977 | Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68 |
| 1975 | Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1972 | Horst Salomon, writer, dies |
| 1972 | Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 |
| 1966 | Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71 |
| 1965 | Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41 |
| 1965 | Bernard Baruch, American Businessman |
| 1964 | Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 |
| 1963 | Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott and Costello), dies at 52 |
| 1963 | Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs |
| 1963 | Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64 |
| 1960 | Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80 |
| 1959 | Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71 |
| 1958 | Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies |
| 1958 | Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor |
| 1953 | Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67 |
| 1948 | George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1947 | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal |
| 1945 | Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California |
| 1941 | Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies |
| 1940 | Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 |
| 1933 | Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies |
| 1925 | Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1923 | Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1922 | Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1917 | James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, dies at 78 |
| 1915 | Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies |
| 1904 | Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies |
| 1890 | Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1888 | Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1888 | John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 |
| 1883 | Olivier Gloux, Gustave Aimard, French world explorer, dies at 64 |
| 1876 | Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79 |
| 1870 | Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39 |
| 1864 | Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43? |
| 1846 | Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67 |
| 1842 | Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1837 | Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1837 | William IV, King of England, dies |
| 1833 | Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1787 | Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 |
| 1751 | Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56 |
| 1649 | Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies |
| 1597 | Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies |
| 1585 | Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 |
| 840 | Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies |
