| 2002 | Irene Worth, actress, Lost in Yonkers, dies at 85 |
| 2000 | John Sladek, science fiction satirist, dies at 62 |
| 1998 | Lloyd Bridges, actor, Sea Hunt, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Ross Hunter, U.S. producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Carel Birnie, ballet producer, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Richard Baerlein, racing writer, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92 |
| 1994 | Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer |
| 1993 | C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies |
| 1993 | David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47 |
| 1992 | Roy Holmer Wallack, dies of pneumonia at 64 |
| 1990 | Michael Stewart, U.K. Secretary of State 1965 - 1966, 1968 - 1970, dies |
| 1988 | Andy Gibb, singer, dies of heart infection at 30 |
| 1988 | Glenn Cunningham, U.S. world record miler, dies at 78 |
| 1988 | William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), dies at 81 |
| 1985 | Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73 |
| 1984 | June Marlowe, actress (Pardon U.S.), dies at 81 |
| 1981 | Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| 1980 | Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris |
| 1977 | E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70 |
| 1977 | Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74 |
| 1977 | Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at 82 |
| 1975 | Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1974 | June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48 |
| 1974 | Quinto Maganini, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated |
| 1971 | Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1968 | Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47 |
| 1966 | Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77 |
| 1966 | Mari Sandoz, U.S. author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64 |
| 1953 | Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92 |
| 1948 | Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered |
| 1944 | David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52 |
| 1943 | Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78 |
| 1940 | Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68 |
| 1935 | Barend Barendse, actor and director (Broken Lives), dies at 82 |
| 1922 | Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1922 | Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1919 | Amelia Barr, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder', dies |
| 1913 | Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY |
| 1910 | Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1910 | Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65 |
| 1906 | Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67 |
| 1901 | Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1900 | Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94 |
| 1897 | Teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1892 | Otto van Raised, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1884-88), dies at 69 |
| 1888 | Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57 |
| 1875 | Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1872 | Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 |
| 1870 | Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1866 | Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1865 | William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confederate General-Major, dies at 48 |
| 1864 | Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52 |
| 1861 | Josepf Francois Snel, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1832 | Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79 |
| 1826 | Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal, 1816 - 1826, dies at 56 |
| 1819 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies |
| 1792 | John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78 |
| 1735 | Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/Governor-General of E Indies, dies at about 46 |
| 1716 | Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1701 | Johann Schelle, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1700 | Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1597 | Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies |
| 1592 | Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer, dies |
| 1585 | Rembert Dodoens, Rembertus Dodonaeus, physician/botanist, dies at 67 |
| 1546 | Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 |
| 483 | Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies |
| 37 | Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78 |
