| 2007 | Albert Ellis, American psychologist, dies of heart failure at 93 |
| 2004 | Carl Rakosi, German Poet |
| 2000 | David Tomlinson, actor, Mary Poppins, dies at 83 |
| 1997 | Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75 |
| 1996 | Quinton Hazell, businessman, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83 |
| 1992 | Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns |
| 1992 | Tom Alexander, model/actor (Kurt-Forbidden Dance), dies of AIDs |
| 1992 | Tony LeMans, singer/songwriter, dies in a car crash at 29 |
| 1991 | Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, New York Stories), dies at 74 |
| 1991 | Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, dies at 91 |
| 1987 | Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), dies of colon cancer at 71 |
| 1984 | William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94 |
| 1976 | Minor White, American Photographer |
| 1973 | Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife), dies at 99 |
| 1971 | Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies |
| 1969 | Maria Belgado, entertainer, dies |
| 1969 | Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies |
| 1969 | Willey Ley, U.S. science writer, dies at 62 |
| 1969 | Willy Ley, German Writer |
| 1962 | Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83 |
| 1959 | Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide at 69 |
| 1953 | George Herbert Walker, American Businessman |
| 1952 | Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1944 | Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1936 | Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1935 | Carlos Gardel, Argentinian Musician |
| 1933 | Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", U.S. singer, dies at about 64 |
| 1922 | Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 |
| 1913 | Frank Lynes, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1908 | Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, 1885 - 1889, 1893 - 1897, dies at 71 |
| 1894 | M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56 |
| 1891 | Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1882 | Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60 |
| 1861 | Abdul-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61), dies at 38 |
| 1817 | Thomas McKean, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 |
| 1803 | Matthew Thornton, Irish / U.S. physician and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 88 |
| 1778 | Peter Burmannus Secundus, P Burman, Dutch classicist, dies at 64 |
| 1724 | Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77 |
| 1712 | Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of Cape Colony (1679-99), dies at 72 |
| 1707 | Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 |
| 1673 | John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle |
| 1652 | Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent, dies at 65 |
| 1643 | John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 |
| 1629 | Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67 |
| 1572 | Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged |
| 1572 | Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged |
| 1572 | Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged |
| 1572 | Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged |
| 1572 | Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged |
| 1519 | Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander, dies at 39 |
| 1475 | Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg and Eichstatt), dies at 54 |