| 2007 | Ingmar Bergman, dies in Sweden, at 89 |
| 2007 | Michelangelo Antonioni, dies in Rome, Italy, at 94 |
| 2003 | Robert McCloskey, writer/illustrator, Make Way for Ducklings, dies at 78 |
| 2003 | Buddy Hackett, American Comedian |
| 2001 | Joe Henderson, American Musician |
| 1996 | Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick), commits suicide at 41 |
| 1996 | Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), dies at 89 |
| 1995 | Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Phyllis Hyman, Phyllis Linda Hyman, soul singer, songwriter, actress, jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, disco genres, first solo Top Ten Hit, 'Can't We Fall In Love Again', received Tony-nomination for Broadway musical, Sophisticated Ladies, dies from suicide at 45 |
| 1995 | Sicco Mansholt, President Commission of Europe (1972-1973), dies |
| 1995 | Jorge Peixinho, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dies in Lisbon, Portugal |
| 1994 | Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51 |
| 1993 | George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65 |
| 1992 | Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies |
| 1992 | Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53 |
| 1992 | Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies |
| 1987 | Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1987 | King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies |
| 1985 | James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies |
| 1984 | Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), dies at 79 |
| 1983 | Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies |
| 1983 | Mary Livingstone, Sadye Marks, Comedienne, (Jack Benny), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies |
| 1979 | Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72 |
| 1974 | Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church |
| 1973 | Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died |
| 1971 | Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 11, dies at 38 |
| 1971 | Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 43 |
| 1971 | Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11), dies at 35 |
| 1969 | Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1968 | John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 |
| 1965 | Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies |
| 1962 | Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65 |
| 1961 | Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87 |
| 1960 | Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1959 | Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1958 | Alois Blommaert, Flemish literary (De Heikeuters), dies at 45 |
| 1953 | Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79 |
| 1948 | Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1946 | Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1942 | Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62 |
| 1938 | Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at 61 |
| 1935 | William Brockwell, cricket (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies |
| 1934 | Ernst Rohm, German staff member, executed at 46 |
| 1934 | Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42 |
| 1934 | Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered |
| 1934 | Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered at 52 |
| 1924 | Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42 |
| 1923 | Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1919 | John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 |
| 1914 | Bai Long, White Wolf, Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies |
| 1905 | John Hay, U.S. politician, dies |
| 1899 | Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies |
| 1898 | Otto von Bismarck, German Leader |
| 1890 | Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1889 | Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1882 | Charles J Guiteau, assassin (President Garfield), hanged |
| 1862 | Richard Griffith, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 48 |
| 1839 | Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies |
| 1819 | Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1817 | Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist |
| 1792 | Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies |
| 1771 | Thomas Gray, English Poet |
| 1685 | Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55 |
| 1666 | Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32 |
| 1666 | Alexander Brome, British poet |
| 1662 | Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64 |
| 1655 | Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81 |
| 1649 | Simon Vouet, French painter |
| 1538 | Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70 |
| 1520 | Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed |
| 1109 | Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies |
