| 2005 | Andre Norton, American Writer |
| 2004 | J. J. Jackson, DJ/VJ, first VJ on MTV, dies at 62 |
| 2002 | Rosetta LeNoire, actress, Family Matters, dies at 90 |
| 2001 | Anthony Storr, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression', dies |
| 1999 | Dave Longaberger, businessman, Basket company entrprenuer, dies at 64 |
| 1997 | Jermaine Stewart, singer, soul, pop, funk-rock genres, known for Billboard hit 'The Word is Out', dies liver cancer in Homewood, Illinois, at age 39 |
| 1996 | Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Kenneth Jameson, art educationalist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Ahmad Khomeini, youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini, dies at 48 |
| 1995 | Donald Baverstock, television Producer, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56 |
| 1995 | Rick Aviles, U.S. comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS |
| 1995 | Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Sunnyland Smart, jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues), dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Mai Zetterling, actress (Night is My Future), dies of cancer at 68 |
| 1994 | Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Helen Hayes, actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92 |
| 1993 | Laadi Flici, Algerian MP, murdered |
| 1993 | Skip Young, actor (Smokey and Hotwire Gang), dies at 62 |
| 1992 | Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69 |
| 1992 | George Lovi, U.S. columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies |
| 1992 | Grace Stafford Lantz, cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Jack Arnold, actor/dir (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967), dies at 75 |
| 1990 | Capucine, actress (Lion, Red Sun, Fellini Satyricon), dies at 55 |
| 1990 | Germaine Capucine, actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 57 |
| 1990 | Mari Mejia, Guatemalian feminist, murdered |
| 1990 | Rick Grech, rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44 |
| 1989 | Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29 |
| 1986 | Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 |
| 1983 | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist |
| 1982 | Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador |
| 1982 | Jan Kuiper, Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador |
| 1982 | Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador |
| 1982 | Koos Koster, Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador |
| 1980 | Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68 |
| 1976 | Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 |
| 1974 | Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman), dies at 72 |
| 1974 | Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73 |
| 1973 | Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans), dies at 81 |
| 1971 | Ernst Bachmeister, writer, dies |
| 1970 | Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83 |
| 1967 | Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67 |
| 1967 | Richard Reeves, actor (Murph-Date With an Angel), dies at 54 |
| 1966 | Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1965 | Almos Alonzo Stagg, football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102 |
| 1965 | Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62 |
| 1963 | William Henry Squire, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1962 | Frank Orth, actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82 |
| 1961 | Suzanna Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101 |
| 1959 | Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday |
| 1956 | Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), dies at 61 |
| 1954 | Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor, dies at 88 |
| 1953 | Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1949 | Felix Bressart, actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland), dies at 54 |
| 1941 | Isaak E Babel, writer, dies at 46 |
| 1941 | Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46 |
| 1941 | Joachim Schepke, German commandant (U-100), dies in battle |
| 1933 | Ferdinand Von Alten, actor (Champagne), dies at 48 |
| 1927 | James Scott Skinner, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1915 | Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69 |
| 1910 | Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1906 | Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause), dies at 82 |
| 1902 | George William Warren, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1901 | Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 |
| 1898 | Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington |
| 1891 | Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention, dies at 68 |
| 1889 | Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, dies at 68 |
| 1871 | Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer |
| 1864 | Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53 |
| 1863 | John Pelham, U.S. Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24 |
| 1862 | Fromental Halevy, Elie Levy, French opera composer, dies at 62 |
| 1861 | Petter Conrad Boman, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1860 | Anna Jameson, British Writer |
| 1857 | Adolph Trube, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1855 | Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1853 | Christian Doppler, physicist, dies |
| 1849 | Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56 |
| 1846 | F. W. Bessel, measured distance to 61 Cygni, dies |
| 1846 | Friedrich W. Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61 |
| 1806 | David Dale, industrialist and philanthropist, dies |
| 1803 | Candido Jose Ruano, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1801 | Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1796 | Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41 |
| 1782 | Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch Mathematician |
| 1764 | George Parker, English astronomer, dies |
| 1704 | Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63 |
| 1680 | Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies |
| 1680 | Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer |
| 1653 | Johan van Galen, Admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48 |
| 1649 | Gerardus Johannis Vossius, Gerrit Vos, Dutch regent, dies at 71 |
| 1640 | Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies |
| 1605 | Pieter Bast, Bastius, Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34 |
| 1588 | Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies |
| 1565 | Alexander Alesius, Aless/Alane, theologist/physician, dies at 64 |
| 1516 | Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence, dies at 37 |
| 1040 | Harold, British King (1035-40), dies |
| 659 | Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32 |
| 461 | St. Patrick, patron St. of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend) |
| 180 | Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 |
