| 2003 | Strom Thurmond, Senator-R-South Carolina 1956 - 2003, Governor South Carolina 1947 - 1951, dies at 100 from heart faliure |
| 1996 | Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 |
| 1994 | A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93 |
| 1994 | Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56 |
| 1994 | Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96 |
| 1993 | Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82 |
| 1993 | Jack Bittner, entertainer, dies |
| 1993 | Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71 |
| 1993 | Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Geert Vissers, Dutch TV host (Gay Dating Show), dies |
| 1992 | Phil Rubenstein, U.S., actor (Tango and Cash, Robocop), dies |
| 1991 | Carmine Coppola, composer and conductor (Godfather II), dies at 80 |
| 1991 | Paul Andor, actor (Mad Lover, Enemy of Women), dies |
| 1990 | Mary Ward, Myra Syrier, actress (Playing for Keeps), dies |
| 1989 | Walter Martin, American Clergyman |
| 1988 | Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian |
| 1984 | Carl Foreman, producer, dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1984 | George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82 |
| 1984 | Michel Foucault, English Historian |
| 1983 | Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82 |
| 1982 | Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist, dies |
| 1982 | Andre Tchaikowsy, pianist/composer, dies |
| 1982 | Charles Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71 |
| 1982 | Sandy Powell, costume designer, dies at 82 |
| 1981 | Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies |
| 1979 | Charles Clore, financier, dies |
| 1978 | Rabbaji, president of South-Yemen, executed |
| 1977 | Lou Reizner, rock vocalist/producer (Rod Stewart, Tommy), dies at 43 |
| 1977 | Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Arnold Richardson, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1973 | Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82 |
| 1972 | David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61 |
| 1971 | Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1971 | Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies |
| 1971 | Juan Manen, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1967 | Francoise Dorleac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35 |
| 1965 | Johan C T Kikkert, painter/etcher/critic, dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Reginald Beckwith, actor and writer (39 Steps, Dr. in Love), dies at 56 |
| 1963 | Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies |
| 1961 | Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian pilot, dies |
| 1961 | Kenneth F Fearing, U.S., poet (Afternoon of a pawnbroker), dies at 58 |
| 1960 | John Brenden Kelly, rower, Gold Medals 1920, 1924 Olympics, dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 |
| 1956 | Clifford Brown, U.S. jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25 |
| 1945 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1943 | Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 |
| 1942 | Titus Brandsma, Anno Sjoerd, Dutch RC priest (Dachau), dies |
| 1939 | Ford M Ford, Hueffer, British writer, (Tietjens Saga) dies at 65 |
| 1938 | James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67 |
| 1938 | E. V. Lucas, English Writer |
| 1937 | Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82 |
| 1926 | Christina Goedvolk, wife of Henry Jut, dies |
| 1922 | Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73 |
| 1906 | Alexander Muir, poet (Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76 |
| 1896 | Louis CPR of Orleans, French duke (chosen king of Belgian), dies at 81 |
| 1863 | Andrew Hull Foote, U.S. Union lt admiral, dies |
| 1856 | Max Stirner, German Philosopher |
| 1836 | Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies |
| 1827 | Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies |
| 1827 | Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73 |
| 1819 | Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1819 | Slome Duikelar, Abraham J Swalff, Yiddish writer, dies |
| 1798 | Eugene Godecharle, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1793 | Gilbert White, naturalist/cleric, dies |
| 1793 | Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author |
| 1778 | Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1688 | Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70? |
| 1688 | Ralph Cudworth, philospher/cleric, dies |
| 1666 | Richard Fanshawe, diplomat/translator/poet, dies |
| 1661 | Lazaro Valvasensi, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1657 | Tobias Michael, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1631 | Justinus van Nassau, ltalian Admiral (Armada), dies |
| 1541 | Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima |
| 363 | Flavius C Julianus, Apostata, emperor of Rome (361-63), dies |
