| 2007 | Craig L. Thomas, dies in Maryland, of leukemia, at 74 |
| 2005 | Jean O'Leary, American Activist |
| 2004 | Steve Lacy, American Musician |
| 1997 | Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 50 |
| 1997 | Kurt Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Ronnie Lane, rocker, Faces, dies at 50 |
| 1996 | Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86), dies |
| 1995 | Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80 |
| 1995 | Herta Ryder, literary agent, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49 |
| 1994 | Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33 |
| 1994 | Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59 |
| 1993 | June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), dies of apparent suicide at 71 |
| 1992 | Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II), dies at 82 of stomach cancer |
| 1989 | Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989), dies at 89 |
| 1989 | Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71 |
| 1989 | Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakian opera composer and conductor, dies at 71 |
| 1975 | Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75 |
| 1973 | Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance), dies at 72 in Nashville |
| 1973 | Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies at 55 |
| 1972 | Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Gyorgy Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher, dies at 86 |
| 1970 | Hjalmar Schcacht, [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies |
| 1970 | Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies |
| 1970 | Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78 |
| 1970 | Sonny Tufts, actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch), dies at 58 |
| 1968 | Dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70 |
| 1968 | Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman |
| 1965 | Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies |
| 1962 | William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84 |
| 1960 | Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64 |
| 1959 | Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58 |
| 1958 | M Lichnowsky, writer, dies at 79 |
| 1956 | Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1954 | Harold Hoffman, (Gov-NJ), dies at 58 |
| 1951 | Serge Koussevitsky, conductor/composer, dies at 76 |
| 1950 | Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies |
| 1945 | Georg Kaiser, playwright, dies at 66 |
| 1943 | Jean du Bela, singer and actor (Sobibor), dies at 39 |
| 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, German protector (Bohemia/Moravia (Lidice)), dies |
| 1941 | Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies |
| 1931 | Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies |
| 1926 | Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks and Radiates), dies |
| 1926 | Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies |
| 1925 | Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1925 | Pierre Louys, [PF Louis], French writer (Aphrodite), dies |
| 1922 | William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies |
| 1921 | Heinrich E Albers-Schonberg, German x-ray experimenter, dies at 56 |
| 1916 | Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 |
| 1915 | William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1913 | Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse |
| 1907 | Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1905 | Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1880 | Eugen Adam, painter, dies |
| 1876 | Abdul-Aziz, 32nd sultan of Turkey (1861-76), dies at 46 |
| 1875 | Eduard Morike, German vicar/poet/writer (Peregrina), dies at 70 |
| 1872 | Johan R Thorbecke, literature/liberal premier, dies |
| 1872 | Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1850 | Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange, dies at 74 |
| 1849 | Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist |
| 1826 | Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39 |
| 1825 | Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies |
| 1818 | John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44 |
| 1809 | Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect, dies at 65 |
| 1798 | Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Italian adventurer/spy/librarian, dies at 73 |
| 1793 | Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter, dies at 34 |
| 1792 | John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies |
| 1674 | John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66 |
| 1663 | William Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63), dies |
| 1608 | Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 |
| 1585 | Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1558 | Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43 |
| 1463 | Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 |
| 1316 | Louis X, King of France (1314-16), dies at 26 |
| 1267 | Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67), dies |
| 1039 | Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49 |
