| 2007 | Betty Hutton, dies in California, complications of colon cancer, at 86 |
| 2002 | James Tobin, American Economist |
| 1996 | Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92 |
| 1996 | Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant, dies at 70 |
| 1996 | John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67 |
| 1995 | Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered |
| 1995 | Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo), dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Dino Bravo, wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44 |
| 1993 | Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76 |
| 1993 | Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41 |
| 1992 | Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80 |
| 1992 | Manuel De Dios Unanue, U.S. anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48 |
| 1992 | Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 |
| 1989 | Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57 |
| 1989 | John J. McCloy, American Lawyer |
| 1988 | Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74 |
| 1987 | [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76 |
| 1982 | Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55 |
| 1979 | Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74 |
| 1973 | Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, writer |
| 1972 | Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 |
| 1971 | Philo T Farnsworth, U.S. TV pioneer, dies at 64 |
| 1971 | Roy Glenn, dies in Los Angeles at 56 |
| 1971 | Whitney M Young, Jr., leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49 |
| 1971 | Whitney M. Young, American Activist |
| 1970 | Erle Stanley Gardner, U.S. writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 |
| 1969 | John Wyndham, Parkes Lucas B Harris, author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85 |
| 1965 | James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered |
| 1962 | Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 |
| 1960 | Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 76 |
| 1959 | Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1959 | Lester Dent, American Writer |
| 1957 | Richard E Byrd, U.S., explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68 |
| 1956 | Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 |
| 1955 | Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 |
| 1951 | Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66 |
| 1950 | Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78 |
| 1949 | Henri-Honore Giraud, French genl/MP, dies at 70 |
| 1949 | Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1947 | Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1944 | Hendrik W van Loon, Netherlands/U.S. radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 |
| 1944 | Hendrik Willem Van Loon, American Journalist |
| 1941 | Walford Davies, British organist/composer, dies at 71 |
| 1937 | Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1925 | Andreas Hallen, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1921 | Sherburne W. Burnham, U.S. astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83 |
| 1919 | Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1908 | Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1907 | Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered |
| 1897 | Berthold Tours, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1897 | Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist, dies at 45 |
| 1874 | Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 |
| 1857 | Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84 |
| 1845 | John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed, dies in Allen County Indiana |
| 1833 | Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1826 | Gervais-Franeois Couperin, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1820 | Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 |
| 1807 | Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1787 | Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 |
| 1786 | Jacobus Bellamy, Zelandus, Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 |
| 1772 | George Reuter, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1715 | Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter, dies at 80 |
| 1486 | Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71 |
| 638 | Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies |
| 222 | Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18? |
