| 2004 | Mercedes McCambridge, actress, The Exorcist, dies at 85 |
| 1999 | Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Jacobo Majluta, president of Dominican Rep (1982), dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Hugo Cole, musician/critic, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Vladislav Listyev, TV journalist, dies at 48 |
| 1994 | Donald McKenzie MacKinnon, philosopher, dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker, dies at 70 |
| 1993 | Floortje Peneder, Dutch poet (Diary), dies at 15 |
| 1993 | Paul D Zimmerman, U.S. screenwriter (King of Comedy), dies at 54 |
| 1991 | Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies |
| 1991 | Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies |
| 1991 | Serge Gainsbourg, composer/actor (Fury of Hercules), dies at 62 |
| 1988 | John Clellon Holmes, American Writer |
| 1987 | Randolph Scott, actor (Ft. Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89 |
| 1986 | Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56 |
| 1986 | Zafer Masri, mayor of Nablus, murdered |
| 1985 | John B Kelly, Jr., chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57 |
| 1985 | Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips), dies at 77 of Parkinson's |
| 1984 | Louis Basile, actor (Louie-The Super), dies at 48 |
| 1982 | Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53 |
| 1982 | Philip K. Dick, American Writer |
| 1981 | Janear Hines, actress (Roberta-Julia), dies at 30 |
| 1979 | Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71 |
| 1979 | Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75 |
| 1979 | Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland |
| 1975 | Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1974 | Barbara Ruick, actress and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 41 |
| 1973 | Cleo Noel, U.S. ambassador to Sudan, assassinated |
| 1972 | Bill Lawrence, news anchor (ABC), dies at 56 |
| 1971 | Charles W. Engelhard, U.S. silver multi-millionaire, dies at 54 |
| 1967 | Gordon Harker, actor (Inspector Hornleigh), dies at 81 |
| 1962 | Charles-Jean baron de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at 96 |
| 1959 | Eric Blore, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Love Happy), dies at 70 |
| 1959 | Yrlo Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67 |
| 1957 | Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70 |
| 1950 | M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 |
| 1945 | Emily Carr, Canadian Artist |
| 1943 | Alexandre Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist (bacteria plague), dies at 79 |
| 1939 | Howard Carter, British archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), dies at 65 |
| 1937 | Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1930 | David H Lawrence, poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44 |
| 1916 | Elisabeth OL, Carmen Sylva, Queen of Romania, dies at 72 |
| 1901 | George Mercer Dawson, Canadian Scientist |
| 1895 | Berthe MP Morisot, French painter/aquarelliste, dies at 54 |
| 1895 | Ismail Pasha, kedive of Egypt (1863-79), dies at 64 |
| 1895 | John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer |
| 1895 | Berthe Morisot, French Artist |
| 1887 | August W. Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47 |
| 1887 | Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1882 | Louis Kufferath, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1878 | Benjamin F. Wade, American Politician |
| 1868 | Carl Eberwein, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1867 | French A Durlet, Belgian sculptor/architect, dies at 50 |
| 1862 | Frederick West Lander, U.S. Union Brigadier-General/poet, dies at 40 |
| 1855 | Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58 |
| 1840 | Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets and asteroids), dies at 81 |
| 1822 | Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1800 | Christian Friedrich Schale, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1797 | Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79 |
| 1787 | Jean SOME Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher, dies at 73 |
| 1772 | Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73 |
| 1758 | Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78 |
| 1619 | Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish king Frederik II, dies at 44 |
| 1383 | Amadeus VI, count of Savoy, dies |
| 1333 | Wladyslaw IV, the Short One/Great, duke/king of Poland, dies |
| 1127 | Charles, the Good, Count of Vlanderen, murdered |
| 1122 | Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies |
| 986 | Lotharius, King of France (954-86), dies at 44 |
