| 1997 | Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32 |
| 1995 | Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Lewis Grizzard, American Writer |
| 1993 | Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3 |
| 1992 | Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 |
| 1992 | Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67 |
| 1991 | Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 |
| 1990 | Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90 |
| 1990 | Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60 |
| 1990 | Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete |
| 1988 | Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75 |
| 1987 | Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure |
| 1982 | Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at 52 |
| 1976 | Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62 |
| 1974 | [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 |
| 1972 | Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 |
| 1972 | Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 |
| 1972 | Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50 |
| 1968 | Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies |
| 1967 | A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam |
| 1964 | Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41 |
| 1964 | Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1962 | Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies |
| 1962 | C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45 |
| 1953 | Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60 |
| 1951 | Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1951 | Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1950 | Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59 |
| 1945 | Alfred Douglas, English Poet |
| 1944 | Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1942 | Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1941 | D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies |
| 1934 | A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen, dies at 76 |
| 1933 | Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR |
| 1933 | Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal |
| 1929 | Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77 |
| 1925 | George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 |
| 1925 | Lord Curzon, British Statesman |
| 1920 | Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 |
| 1913 | Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1913 | Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies |
| 1911 | Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1910 | Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89 |
| 1899 | Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution |
| 1898 | Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies |
| 1894 | Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 |
| 1892 | Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1891 | Lawrence Barrett, American Actor |
| 1887 | Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73 |
| 1878 | Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist |
| 1875 | John Mitchel, Irish Journalist |
| 1874 | Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1873 | Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1871 | Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1870 | Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian |
| 1866 | Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23 |
| 1848 | Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 |
| 1812 | Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 |
| 1804 | Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1767 | Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 |
| 1757 | Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1751 | Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies |
| 1727 | Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 |
| 1703 | Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies |
| 1646 | Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 |
| 1619 | Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies |
| 1617 | Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 |
| 1568 | Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77 |
| 1549 | Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded |
| 1531 | Sicke Freerks/Frericx, Cutter, Dutch anabaptist, beheaded |
| 1501 | Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72 |
| 1415 | Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 |
| 1393 | Johannes Nepomucenus, Jan Nepomucky, Czechoslovakian saint, killed |
| 1351 | Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies |
| 1191 | Clement III, Paolo Scolari, Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies |
| 842 | Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies |
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