| 2005 | John T. Walton, American Businessman |
| 2005 | Shelby Foote, American Author |
| 2004 | Hugh Cave, pulp writer, a professional writer for over 70 years, dies at 95 |
| 2002 | John Entwistle, bass player, The Who, dies at 57 |
| 2002 | Timothy White, American Critic |
| 2001 | Jack Lemmon, actor, movie version of The Odd Couple, dies at 76 |
| 2001 | Jack Lemon, American Actor |
| 2001 | Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist |
| 1996 | Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, movie producer, dies at 87 |
| 1996 | Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier, dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death at 40 |
| 1992 | Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat), dies of lung cancer at 84 |
| 1992 | Sandy Amoros, Brooklyn Dodger, dies at 62 of pneumonia |
| 1992 | Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose at 24 |
| 1991 | Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered |
| 1991 | Willem J [Molly] Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister, dies |
| 1989 | Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies |
| 1989 | Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw), dies |
| 1988 | Leonie Fuller Adams, U.S. poet (High Falcon), dies at 88 |
| 1987 | Jackie Gleason, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners), dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning |
| 1986 | Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce), dies |
| 1983 | Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race |
| 1983 | Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race |
| 1983 | Alden Nowlan, Canadian Poet |
| 1982 | Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49 |
| 1980 | Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex), dies at 31 |
| 1975 | Robert Stolz, Austrian composer (Fruhling im Prater), dies at 94 |
| 1973 | Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete and Gladys, Mr. Peepers), dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1966 | Arthur D Waley, Schloss, British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies |
| 1965 | Anthony Veiller, writer, dies at 62 |
| 1964 | Daniel Lazarus, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1961 | Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis), dies at 58 |
| 1960 | Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60) |
| 1958 | Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78 |
| 1957 | Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48 |
| 1954 | Francis L Casadesus, French violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 83 |
| 1950 | Milada Horakova, Czechoslovakian advocate/anti fascist, hanged |
| 1948 | George Templeton Strong, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1944 | Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1934 | Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56 |
| 1918 | Josephin Peladan, French writer/CEO (French Red Cross), dies |
| 1917 | Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79 |
| 1889 | Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies |
| 1889 | Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1876 | Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81 |
| 1864 | Charles Garrison Harker, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 26 |
| 1863 | Martin E Green, Confederate Brigadier-General, shot dead at 38 |
| 1862 | Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35 |
| 1859 | Jean C Baud, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1834-36), dies at 69 |
| 1848 | Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death at 54 |
| 1848 | Zschokke, writer, dies |
| 1839 | Ranjit Singh, Governor of Lahore, dies |
| 1832 | Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1829 | James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute |
| 1829 | Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1814 | Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1785 | Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent, dies at 84 |
| 1776 | Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed |
| 1757 | Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59 |
| 1679 | Pablo Bruna, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1654 | Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 |
| 1641 | Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter, dies at 74 |
| 1638 | Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople, dies |
| 1543 | Agnolo Firenzuola, Giovannini, Italian monk (De golden ezel), dies |
| 1458 | Alfonso V, King of Aragon/Sicily/Naples (Alfonso I), dies |
| 1296 | Floris V, count of Holland and Zeeland, dies |
| 1137 | Guigo de Castro, Venerabilis, 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse, dies |
| 444 | Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria, dies |
