| 2003 | Trevor Goddard, actor/boxer, JAG, dies at 37 |
| 2002 | Signe Hasso, actress, original movie version of Heaven Can Wait, dies at 91 |
| 2001 | Charles Templeton, Canadian Cartoonist |
| 1996 | Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered |
| 1994 | Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42 |
| 1994 | Thadde Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda, murdered during the Rwandan genocide |
| 1993 | Drazen Petrovic, NBA player (New Jersey Nets), dies in auto-accident at 28 |
| 1992 | Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1992 | William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers), dies |
| 1990 | Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at 63 of a heart attack |
| 1989 | Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist, dies |
| 1989 | Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist, dies |
| 1987 | John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73 |
| 1984 | George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at 81 |
| 1983 | Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince, buried |
| 1983 | Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1980 | Henry [Valentine] Miller, U.S. writer (Tropic of Capricorn), dies at 88 |
| 1980 | Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame), dies |
| 1980 | Henry Miller, American Author |
| 1979 | Forrest Carter, American Writer |
| 1976 | Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestral leader (Air time '57), dies at 61 |
| 1973 | Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50 |
| 1971 | Leo Burnett, American Businessman |
| 1971 | Ben Pollack, American Musician |
| 1970 | Edward M Forster, British writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91 |
| 1970 | E. M. Forster, English Novelist |
| 1969 | Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys), dies at 53 |
| 1968 | Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 |
| 1967 | Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer (Enough Rope), dies at 73 |
| 1967 | Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54 |
| 1966 | Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 |
| 1965 | Judy Holliday, comedienne (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), dies at 42 |
| 1965 | Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59 |
| 1965 | Richard Billinger, Austria poet and writer (Bauernpassion), dies |
| 1963 | Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65 |
| 1961 | Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies |
| 1957 | Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies |
| 1956 | Julien Benda, French philosopher and writer (La trahison des clercs), dies |
| 1951 | Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair and Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged |
| 1948 | Georges Adolphe Hue, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1945 | Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74 |
| 1945 | Ruben Marcos Campos, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1940 | James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels), dies at 39 |
| 1938 | Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late), dies |
| 1935 | Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies |
| 1932 | Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1928 | Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered |
| 1927 | Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered |
| 1926 | Henry Charles Tonking, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1915 | Benjamin Lambord, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1906 | Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74 |
| 1896 | Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island |
| 1893 | Johann Schrammel, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1893 | Edwin Booth, American Actor |
| 1877 | Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68 |
| 1876 | George Sand, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1866 | Chief Seattle, American |
| 1863 | Franz Xavier Gruber, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1862 | William B Mumford, 1st U.S. citizen hanged for treason, at 42 |
| 1843 | F Holderlin, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1843 | Johann C F Holderlin, German poet, dies at 73 |
| 1840 | Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840), dies at 69 |
| 1838 | Laure S-MP duchess d'abrantes, French marshal Junot, dies |
| 1814 | Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71 |
| 1800 | Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Netherlands-Indies (1780-97), dies at 75 |
| 1789 | Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1784 | Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1779 | William Warburton, English Critic |
| 1778 | Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1754 | Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52 |
| 1701 | Ferdinand W, Prince of Wurttemberg-Neustadt, dies at 41 |
| 1697 | John Aubrey, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives', died of apoplexy |
| 1672 | Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37 |
| 1667 | Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter, buried |
| 1654 | Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 |
| 1631 | Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal) |
| 1624 | Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74 |
| 1572 | August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 |
| 1571 | Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1555 | Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 |
| 1549 | Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded |
| 1492 | Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92), dies at 64 |
| 1337 | Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49 |
| 1329 | Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53 |
| 555 | Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies |
