| 2007 | Richard Rorty, dies in Palo Alto, California, of pancreatic cancer, at 75 |
| 2000 | Jack Kroll, theater critic, Newsweek, dies at 73 |
| 2000 | Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, Shoe, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft), dies at 70 |
| 1996 | Michael Fox, actor (Amos-Falcon Crest, Skinheads), dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Phyllis Stedman, politician, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Juan Carlos Ongania, President of Argentina (1966-70), dies |
| 1995 | Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Sheikh Iman, singer, dies at 76 |
| 1994 | William Marshall, actor and director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Rene Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief deports jews, dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Beverly Carter, entertainer, dies at 51 |
| 1992 | Farag Foeda, Egyptian writer/publicist, murdered |
| 1992 | William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 |
| 1992 | William McGowan, entrepreneur (MCI), dies at 64 |
| 1991 | Bertice Reading, Dutch actress (Moon in the Gutter), dies |
| 1991 | Heidi Bruhl, German actress (Madels vom Immenhof), dies at 49 |
| 1991 | Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 |
| 1990 | Alfredo Poveda, president of Consul of Ecuador (1976-79), dies |
| 1990 | Jose Figueres, president of Costa Rica (1948-49, 53-58, 70-74), dies |
| 1988 | Eli Mintz, actor (Boardwalk), dies |
| 1988 | Russell Harty, broadcaster, dies |
| 1988 | Virgil Oliver, Jr., entertainer, dies |
| 1987 | Yogi Horton, drummer (Luther Vandross), commits suicide at 33 |
| 1984 | Gordon Jacob, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1982 | Jean Wiener, French composer (Olive chez les negres), dies at 86 |
| 1982 | [Leroy] Satchel Paige, U.S. baseball pitcher, dies at 75 |
| 1979 | Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 |
| 1979 | Louis Salvador Palange, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1975 | William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 |
| 1973 | Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1972 | Jimmy Rushing, U.S. blues singer, dies at 68 |
| 1971 | Harold Lloyd, Jr., actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 40 |
| 1969 | Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57 |
| 1967 | Elliot Griffis, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1967 | Laverne Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies |
| 1956 | Marie Laurencin, French Artist |
| 1954 | Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41 |
| 1953 | Godfrey Tearle, actor (39 Steps, Mandy, At Dawn We Die), dies at 68 |
| 1948 | Franz Carl Bornschein, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1948 | Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Australia, caught 44 stumped 21), dies |
| 1947 | Tom O'Brien, actor (Flying Fool), dies at 56 |
| 1940 | Frederick Shepherd Converse, U.S. composer, dies at 69 |
| 1931 | Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages |
| 1929 | Bliss Carman, poet, dies |
| 1919 | Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1908 | Johan Lindegren, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1906 | Christian Frederik Emil Horneman, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1889 | Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, dies at 54 |
| 1884 | Henry Clay Work, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1876 | George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71 |
| 1871 | Satank, Kiowa indian chief, shot to death |
| 1870 | Johann Gottlob Topfer, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1865 | Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies |
| 1845 | Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th President (1828-37), dies at 78 |
| 1831 | Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75 |
| 1814 | Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1809 | Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72 |
| 1806 | George Wythe, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79 |
| 1803 | Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80 |
| 1796 | Felice de Giardini, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1795 | Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95), dies at 10 |
| 1794 | G A Burger, writer, dies |
| 1790 | Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1768 | Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50 |
| 1742 | Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62 |
| 1711 | Katharina Lescaille, Netherlands Sappho, poet, dies at 61 |
| 1695 | Christian Huygens, inventor/astronomer (ring of Saturn), dies at 66 |
| 1688 | Hans Bontemantel, Amsterdams merchant, buried |
| 1661 | John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39 |
| 1612 | Hans Leo Hassler, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1376 | "Black Prince" of Wales, son of King Edward of England, dies at 46 |
| 1115 | Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64 |
| 1042 | Hardicanute, King of England (1040-42), Lambeth |
| 632 | Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran), dies (according to tradition) |
| 218 | Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54 |
