| 2001 | Norma MacMillan, cartoon voice, voice of Casper, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Eric Brand, diplomat, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Frank Murray, police Officer, dies at 51 |
| 1995 | Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Norman Schwartz, record Producer, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies from AIDs at 52 |
| 1994 | Lili Damita, wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis Rey), dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives), dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1992 | John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78 |
| 1991 | Leo Fender, inventor (Fender guitar), dies |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 |
| 1989 | Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies |
| 1987 | Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35 |
| 1987 | Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68 |
| 1986 | August de Boodt, Belgian politician, dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr. Chips, Mr. Arkadin), dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Salvador Ley, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1982 | Harry H Corbett, Brits actor (Steptoe and Son, Jabberwacky), dies at 57 |
| 1980 | Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1980 | George H. Fallon, American Politician |
| 1975 | Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1975 | Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95 |
| 1974 | Candy Darling, James Slattery, female impersonator, dies |
| 1973 | Antoni Szalowski, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1970 | Marlen Haushofer, writer, dies at 49 |
| 1969 | Gerhart Fritsch, writer, dies at 44 |
| 1958 | Cyril M Kornbluth, U.S. sci-fi writer (Space Merchants), dies at 34 |
| 1955 | Muriel Aked, dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1952 | A J Pieters, SS-Untersturmfuhrer, executed |
| 1952 | Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed |
| 1945 | J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39 |
| 1942 | Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide |
| 1941 | Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67 |
| 1939 | Evald Aav, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1938 | Oscar Apfel, actor (Inspiration), dies at 60 |
| 1938 | John Bates Clark, American Economist |
| 1936 | Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70 |
| 1934 | Franz Schreker, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1934 | Lilyan Tashman, actor (Bulldog Drummond), dies at 34 |
| 1921 | "Big Jim" Colisimo, U.S. gangster, murdered by Al Capone |
| 1920 | Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37 |
| 1916 | Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72 |
| 1916 | Cole Younger, American Criminal |
| 1915 | Frederick W. Taylor, American Scientist |
| 1894 | Jacob Rosenhaim, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1863 | Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66 |
| 1857 | Abraham J van der Aa, lexicographer (Biograph dictionary), dies at 64 |
| 1844 | Leopold F J J J van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician, dies at 65 |
| 1843 | Robert Southey, English Poet |
| 1810 | Philippe-Joseph van den Berghe graaf Limmighe, Brabants ships, dies |
| 1801 | Andrea Lucchesi, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1793 | Johann Michael Schmidt, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1768 | Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), dies at 75 |
| 1734 | Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1729 | John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57 |
| 1656 | Armagh James Ussher, Archbishop (said world began 4004 BC), dies at 76 |
| 1654 | Johann Neukrantz, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1652 | Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55 |
| 1556 | Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 |
| 1538 | Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79 |
| 1487 | Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies |