| 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 | 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, writer, 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 |
