| 2002 | Caroline Knapp, writer, Drinking: A Love Story, dies at 41 |
| 2002 | Lew Wasserman, American Producer |
| 2001 | Anthony Quinn, actor, Zorba the Greek, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | William Simon, American Public Servant |
| 2000 | William E. Simon, American Public Servant |
| 2000 | Merton Miller, American Economist |
| 2000 | Leonard Baskin, American Artist |
| 1997 | Dennis James, game show host, The Price is Right, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific |
| 1996 | Len Creed, bookmaker, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Tito Okello, Ugandan general, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Dilys Powell, film Critic, dies at 93 |
| 1995 | Estelle Brody, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything), dies at 94 |
| 1995 | Frank Waters, writer, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Jean-Patric Manchette, thriller writer, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Hub Matthijsen, violinist and bandmaster, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies |
| 1994 | Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Bob Fitzsimmons, New York radio DJ (WNEW AM/WABC AM/WHN AM), dies at 53 |
| 1992 | Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83 |
| 1992 | Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84 |
| 1992 | William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70 |
| 1991 | Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 |
| 1991 | Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mount Unzen Volcano in Japan |
| 1991 | Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 |
| 1990 | Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77 |
| 1989 | Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian ayatollah, dies at 89 |
| 1989 | Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader |
| 1988 | Raj Kapoor, Indian Actor |
| 1987 | Andres Segovia, guitarist, dies |
| 1987 | Will Sampson, actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose), dies at 54 |
| 1986 | Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1986 | Patricia Wheel, actress (Christine-Woman to Remember), dies at 42 |
| 1983 | Miroslav "Standa" Bares, actress (Te Gkek Om Los te Lopen), dies at 60 |
| 1981 | Carleton Coon, anthropology professor (What in the World), dies at 76 |
| 1979 | Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65 |
| 1977 | Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Ozzie Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 69 |
| 1970 | Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Harm Harmstra, Fries boer/writer, dies at 70 |
| 1970 | H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies |
| 1967 | Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies |
| 1967 | Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76 |
| 1967 | Gertrude "Mickey" MacFadden, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 67 |
| 1967 | Hans Fischbock, Austrian financier, dies |
| 1967 | Arthur Ransome, Writer |
| 1966 | Alice Calhoun, actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65 |
| 1963 | John XXIII, Angelo G Roncalli, Pope (1958-63), dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Paul Maxey, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice), dies at 57 |
| 1963 | Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope |
| 1963 | Nazim Hikmet, Turkish Poet |
| 1959 | Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1949 | Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79 |
| 1948 | Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi, Japan (stage)writer (Tjitj kaeru), dies at 59 |
| 1946 | Michail I Kalinin, President (Supreme Soviet), dies at 60 |
| 1943 | Folkert E Posthuma, Minister of Agriculture, dies |
| 1933 | William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner, dies at 88 |
| 1924 | Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakian writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), dies at 40 |
| 1913 | Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1904 | Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide |
| 1899 | Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73 |
| 1898 | Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1898 | Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74 |
| 1890 | Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1888 | Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1881 | Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian |
| 1877 | Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo |
| 1877 | Sophia Frederika Mathilde, princess of Wurttemberg, dies at 58 |
| 1875 | Georges [Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold] Bizet, French composer, dies at 36 |
| 1875 | Georges Bizet, French Composer |
| 1872 | Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1864 | James P McMahon, U.S. Union colonel (164th New York), dies in battle |
| 1864 | Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle |
| 1861 | Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies |
| 1861 | Stephen Douglas, American Politician |
| 1858 | Julius Reubke, composer, dies at 24 |
| 1849 | Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1844 | Louis-Antoine, the Bourbon, French duke of Angoulame, dies |
| 1809 | John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1804 | Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1780 | Thomas Hutchinson, American Politician |
| 1764 | Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe, dies at 69 |
| 1732 | Pieter Vuyst, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon, executed |
| 1688 | Maximilian H of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik, dies at 66 |
| 1679 | Jean-Francius Miller, painter, buried |
| 1661 | Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1594 | Michel Renichon, priest, executed |
| 1107 | Kilidj Arslan I, Seldjoeken-sultan, dies in battle |
| 545 | Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70 |
