| 1999 | Kirk Alyn, actor, Superman in the serials, dies at 88 |
| 1997 | John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 |
| 1997 | Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 |
| 1997 | Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany |
| 1996 | Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70 |
| 1995 | William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered |
| 1994 | Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57 |
| 1992 | C V Wood, Jr., theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1992 | Jean Poiret, French actor and writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork and Mindy), dies at 67 |
| 1992 | Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34 |
| 1991 | Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40 |
| 1991 | Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 |
| 1991 | Doc Pomus, lyricist 'Save Last Dance for Me', dies at 65 |
| 1991 | Robert Maroff, dies at 57 |
| 1989 | Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62 |
| 1989 | Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96 |
| 1986 | Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1986 | Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74 |
| 1986 | Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1986 | Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80 |
| 1984 | Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 |
| 1983 | Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55 |
| 1982 | Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1981 | Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? |
| 1976 | Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79 |
| 1976 | Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80 |
| 1976 | Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies |
| 1975 | Susan Hayward, actress (Young and Willing), dies at 56 |
| 1973 | Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 |
| 1969 | Ben Shahn, U.S. painter, dies at 70 |
| 1969 | Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist |
| 1968 | Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies |
| 1961 | Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78 |
| 1958 | Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64 |
| 1954 | Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1953 | Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56 |
| 1944 | Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1932 | George Eastman, U.S. industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77 |
| 1925 | Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 |
| 1903 | Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88 |
| 1899 | Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76 |
| 1883 | Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 |
| 1861 | Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1811 | August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 |
| 1803 | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 |
| 1801 | Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1768 | Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1760 | Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1757 | John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 |
| 1682 | Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53 |
| 1647 | Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63 |
| 1612 | Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74 |
| 1590 | Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30 |
| 1573 | Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered Admiral Coligny, dies |
| 1559 | Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed |
| 1490 | Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21 |
| 1298 | Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies |
| 1272 | Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies |
| 840 | Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69 |
