| 2007 | Joel Siegel, died in New York, of color cancer complications, at 63 |
| 2003 | Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor, The Music Man, dies at 78 |
| 2003 | Katharine Hepburn, actress, A Lion in Winter, dies at 96 |
| 2002 | Rosemary Clooney, singer/actress, White Christmas, dies at 74 |
| 2000 | Vittorio Gassman, actor, dies at 77 |
| 1999 | Allan Carr, "Producer, manager", Grease, dies at 62 |
| 1997 | William Hickey, actor, Prizzi's Honor, dies of emphysema at 68 |
| 1996 | Alexander George Ogston, biochemist, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Bobby Keetch, footballer/entrepreneur, dies at 54 |
| 1996 | Pamela Mason, actress (Wild in the Streets), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1995 | Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76 |
| 1994 | Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Mohammed Boudiaf, president of Algeria, assassinated at 73 |
| 1992 | Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies |
| 1990 | Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74 |
| 1986 | Ida Mae McKenzie, entertainer, dies |
| 1986 | John P. East, Senator-R-North Carolina, dies at 55 |
| 1986 | Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47 |
| 1982 | Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies |
| 1982 | Henry King, director, dies at 86 |
| 1981 | Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, Iran ayatollah/politician, murdered |
| 1979 | Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Little Feat), dies at 34 |
| 1978 | Bob Crane, actor (Hogan's Heroes), murdered at 59 |
| 1977 | Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), dies at 70 |
| 1976 | Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies |
| 1975 | Jerry Verno, actor (River of Unrest, Ourselves Alone), dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Georgi T Dobrovolsky, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-land accident), dies at 43 |
| 1971 | Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 38 |
| 1971 | Vladimir Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11-landing accident), dies at 35 |
| 1970 | Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77 |
| 1970 | Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64 |
| 1969 | Moise K Tsjombe, premier Congo/Zaire, dies |
| 1969 | Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge), dies at 29 |
| 1969 | Vesselin Stoyanov, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1968 | Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 |
| 1967 | Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), dies in a car crash at 34 |
| 1967 | Oskar Maria Graf, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels, dies at 72 in New York |
| 1966 | Arthur Meulemans, Belgian composer, dies at 82 |
| 1966 | Isabel Dawn, writer, dies |
| 1966 | Ronald Shiner, actor (Aunt Clara, Forbidden, Girls at Sea), dies at 63 |
| 1965 | Sidney Marion, actor (Outlaws is Coming, Quicksand), dies at 64 |
| 1964 | Milenko Zivkovic, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Eric Dolphy, American Musician |
| 1959 | A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico, dies at 51 |
| 1956 | Johan[nes F] Bakker, Jr., actor, dies at 62 |
| 1955 | Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 |
| 1953 | Jules van Nuffel, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1941 | Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at 80 |
| 1940 | Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 |
| 1933 | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, U.S. actor (Keystone comedies), dies at 46 |
| 1933 | Fatty Arbuckle, American Comedian |
| 1923 | Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 |
| 1923 | Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1923 | J C Gomez, General/Venezuela's 1st Vice President, assassinated |
| 1911 | Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 |
| 1903 | Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23 |
| 1895 | Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist |
| 1895 | Thomas Huxley, English Scientist |
| 1880 | George W. Vreede, lawyer/politician, dies |
| 1875 | Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82 |
| 1861 | Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55 |
| 1861 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet |
| 1860 | Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67 |
| 1852 | Henry Clay, the great compromiser, dies at 75 |
| 1840 | Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano, dies at 65 |
| 1818 | Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22 |
| 1798 | Kaat Mussel [Catharina Mulder], exerciser, dies |
| 1790 | Feike H Van de Crew, Fries writer (Mayke Jakkelis), dies |
| 1784 | Caesar Rodney, U.S. judge/singer Declaration of Independence, dies at 55 |
| 1779 | Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51 |
| 1744 | Andre Campra, French priest/ composer and conductor (Tancrede), dies at 83 |
| 1696 | Michel Lambert, composer, dies |
| 1620 | John Aerts, Flemish sculptor |
| 1458 | Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies |
| 1306 | Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies |
| 1293 | Hendrik van Gent, Flemish neo-Augustian philosopher/theologist, dies |
| 1021 | Notker Labeo, tutor in convent Sankt Gallen, dies |
