| 2008 | George Carlin, dies of heart failure at 71 |
| 2004 | Bob Bemer, Pioneering geek, ", helped to develop the ASCII character set, COBOL and the ESC sequence, ", dies at 84 |
| 2004 | Mattie Stepanek, poet, Heartsongs, dies at 13 |
| 2002 | Ann Landers, advice columnist, dies at 83 |
| 1998 | Maureen O'Sullivan, actress, Tarzan, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Tertius Metcalf, businessman, dies at 63 |
| 1996 | Bill Emerson, Representative-R-Missouri 1981 - 1996, died of cancer |
| 1995 | Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of heart attack at 93 |
| 1993 | M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52 |
| 1993 | Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81 |
| 1992 | Chuck Mitchell, actor (Penitentiary), dies |
| 1992 | Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein), dies |
| 1992 | M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83 |
| 1992 | M. F. K. Fisher, American Writer |
| 1991 | Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56 |
| 1989 | Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1989 | Lee Calhoun, hurdler, Gold Medals 1956, 1960 Olympics, dies at 66 |
| 1988 | Bramwell Fletcher, actor (Mummy, Raffles, Svengali), dies at 84 |
| 1988 | Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), dies of ALS at 71 |
| 1988 | Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies |
| 1987 | Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance), dies at 88 |
| 1984 | Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75 |
| 1982 | Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75 |
| 1981 | Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies |
| 1979 | Emory Parnell, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85 |
| 1979 | Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio |
| 1977 | Marston Morse, American Mathematician |
| 1974 | Darius Milhaud, French composer (Le boeuf sur le toat), dies at 81 |
| 1973 | Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1969 | Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), dies at 47 |
| 1967 | Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor/co-founder (UNA), dies at 72 |
| 1965 | David O. Selznick, producer, 'Gone With the Wind', dies at 63 |
| 1965 | David O. Selznick, American Producer |
| 1965 | Joseph Auslander, American Poet |
| 1964 | Havank, HF van der Kallen, detective writer (Shade), dies at 60 |
| 1961 | Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies |
| 1955 | Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56 |
| 1954 | Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49 |
| 1950 | Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri |
| 1945 | Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Lieutenant-General/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri |
| 1940 | Vladimir Koppen, Russian/German/Australia meteorologist, dies at 93 |
| 1939 | Benjamin Tucker, American Activist |
| 1937 | Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36 |
| 1930 | Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82 |
| 1928 | George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46 |
| 1926 | Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1925 | Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Flachen), dies at 76 |
| 1922 | Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London |
| 1910 | Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies |
| 1909 | Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65 |
| 1906 | Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 |
| 1898 | Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66 |
| 1897 | Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54 |
| 1885 | Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmed, Sudanese music reviewer, dies |
| 1874 | Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies |
| 1843 | Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1803 | Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies |
| 1777 | Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71 |
| 1754 | Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1745 | Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1741 | Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1735 | Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1714 | Matthew Henry, English Clergyman |
| 1535 | John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65 |
| 1527 | Machiavelli, writer, dies |
| 1276 | Innocent V, Pierre the Tarantaise, Pope (1276), dies at about 36 |
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