| 2000 | Leslie Arthur Sirkin, geologist, dies at 65 |
| 1997 | William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51 |
| 1997 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, made many documentaries about the ocean, dies of heart attack at 87 |
| 1997 | Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer |
| 1996 | Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78 |
| 1995 | Warren E. Burger, American Judge |
| 1994 | Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72 |
| 1992 | James Stirling, Scottish D-Day parachutist/architect, dies |
| 1992 | Jerome Brown, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagle), dies in car crash at 27 |
| 1992 | William E Harris, entertainer, dies |
| 1990 | Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer (Triad), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Axis Sally, Mildred E Gillars, U.S. nazi propagandist (WW II), dies |
| 1987 | Boudleaux Bryant, song writer (for Everly Bros), dies at 67 |
| 1986 | Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet, dies at 63 |
| 1984 | Michel Foucault, philosoph (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57 |
| 1983 | Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, Argentine composer (Panambi), dies at 67 |
| 1978 | Hussein al-Ghasjmi, president of North-Yemen, murdered |
| 1977 | Endre Szervanszky, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Petko Staynov, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Johnny Mercer, U.S. songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66 |
| 1971 | Charles Vildrac, Paris France, poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
| 1968 | Tony Hancock, actor and writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 |
| 1964 | Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Sonsbeekpaviljoen), dies at 76 |
| 1962 | Ephraim Lisitsky, Hebrew poet, dies |
| 1961 | Ma Ferguson, American Politician |
| 1960 | WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67 |
| 1959 | Charles Starkwether, murderer, executed |
| 1956 | Alfred C Kinsey, U.S. zoologist/sexologist, dies at 62 |
| 1956 | Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77 |
| 1956 | Reinhold M Gliere, Ukrainian conductor and composer (Gjulsura), dies at 81 |
| 1954 | Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Civil Code), dies at 74 |
| 1943 | Spencer Charters, actor (Big Town Girl, St. Louis Kid), dies at 68 |
| 1942 | Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67 |
| 1937 | Colin Clive, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre), dies at 39 |
| 1929 | Georges Courteline [Moineaux], French playwright, dies |
| 1926 | Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris |
| 1912 | Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65 |
| 1906 | Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit |
| 1898 | Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70 |
| 1896 | Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 |
| 1884 | Hans Rott, composer, organist at the Piarist church, praised by Anton Bruchnew, Gustav Mahler, dies at 25 |
| 1876 | Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn |
| 1876 | George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36 |
| 1876 | John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn |
| 1876 | Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn |
| 1876 | Myles Keogh, U.S. officer, dies at Little Bighorn |
| 1876 | Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn |
| 1876 | George Armstrong Custer, American Soldier |
| 1840 | Leopold count of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician, dies at 82 |
| 1822 | Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46 |
| 1785 | Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1785 | Pieter Kintsius, VOC-supercarga/chief on Macau, dies at 53 |
| 1767 | Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86 |
| 1710 | Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74 |
| 1634 | John Marston, English Poet |
| 1522 | Franchinus Gaffurius, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1514 | Berta Jacobsdr, Suster Bertken, Dutch hermit, dies at 87 |
| 1483 | Edward V, king of England (Apr 9-Jun 25, 1483), murdered |
| 1423 | Reinald IV, duke of Gelre and Gulik (Reinoud I), dies |
| 1212 | Simon de Montfort, a leader of the crusades, dies at 67 |
| 1142 | Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies |
