| 2008 | Arthur C. Clarke, dies in Sri Lanka, at 90 |
| 2008 | Paul Scofield, dies in England, of leukemia, at 86 |
| 2005 | John DeLorean, American Businessman |
| 2004 | Brian Maxwell, entreprenuer/runner, developed the Powerbar with his nutritionist wife in 1986, dies at 51 |
| 1996 | Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65 |
| 1996 | William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | W. H. Murray, Scottish Athlete |
| 1995 | Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85 |
| 1995 | Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45 |
| 1995 | Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered |
| 1994 | Jose Coronel Urtecho, poet, dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Barend P Tammeling, journalist (Trouw, Peek on the North), dies at 58 |
| 1993 | Jeff Ward, drummer (9 Inch Nails), commits suicide at 30 |
| 1992 | Cesare Danova, actor (Tentacles, Viva Las Vegas), dies at 66 |
| 1991 | John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies |
| 1991 | Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37 |
| 1991 | Sunday Wilshin, actor (Murder by Rope), dies at 86 |
| 1987 | Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77 |
| 1987 | Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies |
| 1987 | Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94 |
| 1987 | Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53 |
| 1982 | Randy Rhoads, heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy Osbourne), air crash at 25 |
| 1981 | Frank Lane, American Businessman |
| 1979 | Al Hodge, actor (Captain Video), dies at 65 |
| 1979 | Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31 |
| 1976 | George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1976 | Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of heart failure at 25 |
| 1975 | John A DeMott, dies at 63 |
| 1974 | Anne Klien, fashion designer, dies at 51 |
| 1974 | Edward Platt, actor (Chief-Get Smart), dies at 58 |
| 1974 | Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70 |
| 1971 | Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82 |
| 1971 | Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79 |
| 1969 | Theodor Schaefer, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1961 | Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1961 | B. Carroll Reece, American Politician |
| 1954 | Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1951 | H Zur Muhlen, writer, dies |
| 1950 | Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74 |
| 1947 | Willem F J Pijper, Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52 |
| 1946 | Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Buah Rindu), dies at 35 |
| 1945 | Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed |
| 1943 | Vicente Ripolles, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1940 | Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54 |
| 1937 | Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58 |
| 1936 | John Larkin IV, actor and writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63 |
| 1934 | Anthony J Block, lawyer (Dutch strafproces), dies at 66 |
| 1930 | Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81 |
| 1924 | Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71 |
| 1918 | Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73 |
| 1913 | John Thomas, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1907 | Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S. writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70 |
| 1905 | Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1898 | Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet, dies at 26 |
| 1897 | Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87 |
| 1893 | Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1884 | Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1876 | Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1869 | Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (triangulatie), dies at 64 |
| 1866 | Louis Clapisson, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1862 | F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73 |
| 1850 | Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1845 | George Augustus Kollmann, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1811 | Frantisek Adam Mica, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1797 | Philip Hayes, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1796 | Stephen Storace, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1782 | Adrien Trudo Sale, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1782 | Louis-Henry Paisible, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1721 | Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 |
| 1702 | Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51 |
| 1687 | Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, French explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43 |
| 1644 | Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide |
| 1638 | Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66 |
| 1635 | Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies |
| 1556 | Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70 |
| 1263 | Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies |
