| 1996 | George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | George D. Snell, American Scientist |
| 1995 | James Anderson, writer, dies at 41 |
| 1994 | Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies |
| 1994 | Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59 |
| 1994 | Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93 |
| 1993 | James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 |
| 1993 | Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73 |
| 1992 | Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58 |
| 1992 | Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39 |
| 1992 | Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44 |
| 1991 | Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60 |
| 1991 | Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64 |
| 1991 | Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66 |
| 1987 | Arthur Frank Burns, Ukrainian Economist |
| 1985 | Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54 |
| 1984 | A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 |
| 1979 | Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79 |
| 1977 | Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London |
| 1976 | Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85 |
| 1976 | J. Paul Getty, American Businessman |
| 1975 | Larry Blyden, actor (Joe and Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49 |
| 1974 | Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86 |
| 1971 | Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1970 | Lonnie Johnson, American Musician |
| 1968 | Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies |
| 1968 | Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42 |
| 1968 | Robert Kennedy, American Politician |
| 1968 | Randolph Churchill, British Journalist |
| 1967 | Edward G Givens, Jr., Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47 |
| 1966 | Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash |
| 1965 | Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64 |
| 1964 | Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85 |
| 1962 | Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63 |
| 1962 | Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34 |
| 1961 | Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (ober Alchemie), dies at 85 |
| 1961 | Carl G. Jung, Swiss Psychologist |
| 1961 | Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist |
| 1958 | Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1956 | Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74 |
| 1949 | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Dramatist |
| 1946 | Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83 |
| 1945 | Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide |
| 1944 | Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day |
| 1944 | Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 |
| 1943 | Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/U.S. pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74 |
| 1941 | Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity |
| 1940 | E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56 |
| 1940 | Arthur Zimmermann, German Statesman |
| 1939 | Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65 |
| 1937 | Jean Harlow, actress 'Bombshell', dies from gallbladder infection at 26 |
| 1935 | Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68 |
| 1932 | Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author |
| 1928 | Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1926 | Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1922 | Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60 |
| 1917 | Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1916 | Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 |
| 1914 | Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies |
| 1898 | Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62 |
| 1891 | John McDonald, Canadian Leader |
| 1883 | Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1881 | Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 |
| 1878 | Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1878 | Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor |
| 1877 | Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca and chief Standing Bear, dies |
| 1862 | Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33 |
| 1861 | Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 |
| 1861 | Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman |
| 1852 | Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1836 | Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80 |
| 1832 | Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher |
| 1816 | Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dies at 51 |
| 1816 | Benjamin Hawkins, American Diplomat |
| 1799 | Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary |
| 1785 | Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1784 | Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 |
| 1747 | Jean Barriere, composer, dies |
| 1735 | Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1710 | Francoise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65 |
| 1686 | Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Netherlands, dies at 60 |
| 1671 | Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed |
| 1134 | Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 |
| 840 | Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies |