| 2006 | Harry Browne, American Writer |
| 2005 | Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant |
| 2001 | Henry Wade, American Lawyer |
| 1996 | Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85 |
| 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 |