| 2003 | Strom Thurmond, Senator-R-South Carolina 1956 - 2003, Governor South Carolina 1947 - 1951, dies at 100 from heart faliure |
| 1996 | Veronica Guerin, journalist, 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 |
