| 2006 | Harry Browne, American Writer |
| 2006 | Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines, dies of cancer, in Tebworth, England, at age 53 |
| 2005 | Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant |
| 2001 | Henry Wade, American Lawyer |
| 1996 | Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Rodney Rash, born in Frederick, Maryland, Rodney R. Rash, horse trainer, trained Thoroughbred horses, clients include Berry Gordy, Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, Gary A. Tanaka, won Santa Anita Handicap with Urgent Request, 1995, dies of rare blood disorder at age 36 |
| 1995 | Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56 |
| 1995 | Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38 |
| 1994 | Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Walter Kent, U.S. composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Luis Kutner, U.S. co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86 |
| 1992 | Maria Dea, French actress (Pieges), dies at 73 |
| 1991 | Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 |
| 1991 | Katharine Blake, actress (To Have and To Hold), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1990 | Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies |
| 1989 | Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64 |
| 1989 | Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72 |
| 1988 | Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63 |
| 1988 | Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott and Costello), dies at 80 |
| 1986 | Tommy Farr, Welsh Athlete |
| 1985 | Eugene List, U.S. concert pianist, dies at 66 |
| 1984 | Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69 |
| 1980 | John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1980 | Dixie Dean, English Athlete |
| 1979 | Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73 |
| 1979 | Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75 |
| 1978 | Paul Scott, British Novelist |
| 1976 | Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66 |
| 1974 | Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53 |
| 1972 | Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1970 | Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59 |
| 1968 | G vs. d Vring, writer, dies |
| 1968 | Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78 |
| 1965 | Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1964 | Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1962 | Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70 |
| 1958 | Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86 |
| 1953 | Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies |
| 1947 | J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed |
| 1944 | ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz |
| 1940 | Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73 |
| 1938 | G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74 |
| 1938 | Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 |
| 1932 | Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 |
| 1930 | Alois Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54 |
| 1928 | Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1928 | Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1926 | Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58 |
| 1924 | Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66 |
| 1921 | Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79 |
| 1920 | Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack |
| 1918 | Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1914 | Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1912 | Edward Blake, Canadian Politician |
| 1912 | George Grossmith, English Actor |
| 1911 | Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Jose M de Pereda y Sanchez the Porrua, Spanish writer, dies at 73 |
| 1906 | Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German Worterbuch), dies at 68 |
| 1901 | Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68 |
| 1899 | Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90 |
| 1896 | ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle |
| 1896 | ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle |
| 1896 | ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle |
| 1892 | Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60 |
| 1873 | Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician |
| 1870 | Francisco S Lopez, President of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43 |
| 1869 | Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, French poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78 |
| 1865 | Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70 |
| 1859 | Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1826 | J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 |
| 1817 | Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1804 | Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1797 | Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1788 | Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1777 | Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62 |
| 1773 | Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63 |
| 1773 | Luigi Vanvitelli, Louis van Wittel, Italian architect, dies at 72 |
| 1771 | Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1757 | Edward Moore, English Dramatist |
| 1693 | Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1643 | Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59 |
| 1633 | George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39 |
| 1619 | Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 |
| 1535 | Bernardo Accolti, Unico Aretino, Italian writer (Virginia), dies |
| 1510 | Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59 |
| 1383 | Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49 |
| 1131 | Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies |
| 965 | Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies |