| 2005 | William Lehman, Representative-D-Florida 1973 - 1993 |
| 2004 | William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the 1960s, dies at 93 |
| 2003 | Rachel Corrie, American Activist |
| 1998 | Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist |
| 1996 | Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62 |
| 1996 | Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's bookshop), dies at 104 |
| 1996 | Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76 |
| 1995 | Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier/Landowner, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Lord Lovat, Scottish landowner, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80 |
| 1993 | Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86 |
| 1993 | Djilalli Lyabes, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered |
| 1993 | Don Randolph, actor (Harem Girl), dies of pneumonia at 87 |
| 1993 | Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered |
| 1992 | Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies |
| 1991 | 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash |
| 1991 | Jan H van Roijen, Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85 |
| 1991 | Wim van den Brink, Dutch actor (Turkish Fruit, Red Sien), dies |
| 1990 | Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1988 | Dorothy Adams Foulger, actress (Laura, Devil Commands), dies at 88 |
| 1987 | Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71 |
| 1985 | B V A Roling, Dutch lawyer (WW II Tokyo trials), dies at 78 |
| 1985 | Roger Huntington Sessions, U.S. composer (Black Masks), dies at 88 |
| 1983 | Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79 |
| 1979 | Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90 |
| 1978 | Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists |
| 1975 | T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64 |
| 1973 | Carl Benton Reid, actor (Trap, Underwater City), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | M Revis, Willem Fisherman, author 'People that Mutiny', dies at 68 |
| 1972 | Harold "Pie" Traynor, hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates), dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Bebe Daniels, actress (Silver Dollar, My Past), dies at 70 |
| 1971 | Thomas E Dewey, U.S. president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68 |
| 1970 | Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61 |
| 1970 | Tammi Terrell, singer 'You're All I Need', dies of brain tumor at 24 |
| 1968 | June Collyer, actress (June-Stu Erwin Show), dies at 60 |
| 1968 | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1967 | James Friskin, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1964 | Nicholas Joy, actor (Boss Lady), dies at 80 |
| 1963 | William Beveridge, English Economist |
| 1962 | John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1959 | John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111 |
| 1958 | Leon J Cadore, pitched the 26 inning game, dies at 65 |
| 1957 | Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67 |
| 1956 | Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1955 | Mayhew Lake, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1946 | Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61 |
| 1945 | Borries von Munchhausen, writer, dies |
| 1945 | Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52 |
| 1942 | Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian composer (African Dance), dies at 69 |
| 1941 | John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73 |
| 1940 | Selma O Lagerlof, Swed author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81 |
| 1938 | Egon Friedell, writer, dies |
| 1937 | J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 |
| 1935 | John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58 |
| 1935 | Aaron Nimzovich, Latvian Celebrity |
| 1933 | Alfred Her, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47 |
| 1930 | Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60 |
| 1919 | Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1914 | Gaston Calmette, editor (Le Figaro), killed by Mme Caillaux at 55 |
| 1914 | John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies |
| 1910 | Eduard FW Pfluger, German physiologist, dies at 80 |
| 1909 | George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85 |
| 1898 | Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23 |
| 1887 | Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1881 | Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42 |
| 1878 | William Banting, English undertaker, dies |
| 1868 | David Wilmot, American Activist |
| 1867 | Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1843 | Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65 |
| 1841 | Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49 |
| 1838 | Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64 |
| 1819 | Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1806 | Giuseppe Colla, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1804 | Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 |
| 1738 | Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72 |
| 1736 | Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26 |
| 1629 | Emilia of Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange, dies at 59 |
| 1536 | Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45 |
| 1072 | Adalbert, archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies |
| 37 | Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77 |