| 2009 | Billy Mays, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc., dies at age 50 |
| 2007 | Kiichi Miyazawa, dies in Tokyo, Japan, of natural causes, at 87 |
| 2002 | "Arthur ""Spud"" Melin", entreprenuer, co-founded Wham-o, dies at 76 |
| 2001 | Mortimer Adler, "writer, ""Great Books"" editor", dies at 98 |
| 1996 | George Ghita Ionescu, academic, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | Piers Gray, critic/writer, dies at 49 |
| 1996 | Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Donald Sinclair, vet, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black and Tan), dies at 90 |
| 1994 | William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44 |
| 1993 | Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | GG Allin, American Musician |
| 1992 | Mikhail Tai, World chess champion (1960-61), dies at 55 |
| 1991 | Klas Bruinsma, clergyman, dies |
| 1990 | Estelle Lamont, entertainer, dies |
| 1989 | Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90 |
| 1988 | Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), dies |
| 1985 | James Craig, actor (Human Comedy, Kismet), dies of lung cancer at 74 |
| 1982 | Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies |
| 1982 | Harry Mills, U.S., singer (Mills Brothers), dies at 70 |
| 1981 | Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed |
| 1981 | Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75 |
| 1980 | Herbie Faye, comedian (Doc, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 81 |
| 1980 | Jose Iturbi, Spanish/US pianist (Pequena danza Espanola), dies at 84 |
| 1980 | Yoshiro Irino, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1980 | Helen Gahagan, American Actress |
| 1980 | Helen Gahagan, Representative-D-California 1945 - 1951 died of cancer |
| 1979 | Paul Dessau, German composer/conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84 |
| 1976 | Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of Navarone), dies at 49 |
| 1975 | Rod Serling, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), dies at 50 |
| 1974 | Frank Sutton, actor (Sergeant Vince Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50 |
| 1971 | Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48 |
| 1965 | [Theodora E] Betsy Ranucci-Beckman, actress (Dood Water), dies at 88 |
| 1964 | King Calder, actor (Lt Grey-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 64 |
| 1963 | Frank "Home Run" Baker, (hit 2 home runs in 1911 world series) dies at 77 |
| 1962 | Mickey Cochrane, baseball hall of fame catcher, dies at 59 |
| 1958 | Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77 |
| 1957 | Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78 |
| 1957 | Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1954 | Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26 |
| 1950 | Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1947 | Stanislav K Neumann, Czechoslovakian poet (Anti-Guide), dies at 72 |
| 1946 | Eduard Veterman, Dutch painter/playwright, dies in an auto accident |
| 1946 | Antoinette Perry, American Actress |
| 1940 | Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, dies at 44 |
| 1937 | Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64 |
| 1936 | Alexander Berkman, Russian Writer |
| 1929 | Edward Carpenter, English Activist |
| 1914 | Franz Ferdinand, Austrian archduke (Sarajevo, Bosnia), assassinated |
| 1914 | Sophie, Princess of Austria, assassinated |
| 1912 | Josef V Sladek, Czechoslovakian poet (Za soumraku), dies at 66 |
| 1910 | Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1909 | Israel Durham, Phillies president dies |
| 1891 | Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1890 | Edouard Gregoir, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1889 | Maria Mitchell, 1st U.S. woman astronomer (Vassar), dies at 70 |
| 1876 | August W. Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59 |
| 1872 | Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1857 | Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1855 | Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1846 | Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77 |
| 1844 | Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, "Placido", Cuban poet, dies at 35 |
| 1836 | James Madison, 4th U.S. President (1809-17), dies in Montpelier Virginia at 85 |
| 1830 | David Walker, abolitionist (Appeal to Colored Citizens), dies at 44 |
| 1813 | Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussian Minister of War (1807-10), dies in battle |
| 1806 | Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1802 | Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 |
| 1798 | Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1788 | Johann Christoph Vogel, composer, dies at 32 |
| 1776 | Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged |
| 1748 | Marretje Arends, Matje of Nieuwendijk, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged |
| 1748 | Pieter van Dort, Amsterdam plunderer, hanged |
| 1742 | Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1714 | Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56 |
| 1714 | Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86 |
| 1617 | Johan Evertsen de Captain, Swiss admiral, dies in battle |
| 1598 | Abraham Ortelius, Ortels/Hortels, South Netherlands geographer, dies at 71 |
| 1385 | Andronicus IV Paleologus, Byzantine anti-emperor, dies |
| 1061 | Floris I, count of Holland, dies |
| 767 | Paul I, Paolo Orsini, Italian Pope (757-67), dies |
| 573 | Alboin, king of Longobarden, probably poisoned by his wife |
| 548 | Theodora, dancer/empress of Byzantine (Nika-oproer), dies |
