| 2005 | Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect |
| 2002 | Eileen Farrell, singer, Can't Help Singing: The Life of Eileen Farrell, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | William Hanna, cartoon creator, The Flintstones, dies at 90 |
| 1999 | David Strickland, actor, Suddenly Susan, dies at 29 |
| 1996 | Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS-5, STS-51-B), dies at 59 |
| 1996 | Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47 |
| 1996 | Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Peter Woods, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News, dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Dan Hartman, U.S. singer/songwriter, 'Love Sensations', dies at 42 |
| 1994 | Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Walter Lantz, U.S. cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93 |
| 1993 | Gret Palucca, German dancer and choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 |
| 1993 | Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Steve Olin, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, drowns at 27 |
| 1993 | Tim Crews, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, drowns at 31 |
| 1991 | Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 |
| 1987 | Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58 |
| 1986 | Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies |
| 1979 | Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78 |
| 1979 | Walter Legge, British Businessman |
| 1978 | Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in Puerto Rico at 73 |
| 1975 | Asa Smith Bushnell, Jr., Secretary of U.S. Olympics 1945 - 1965, dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59 |
| 1975 | Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 |
| 1974 | Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35 |
| 1971 | Martin Bodmer, writer, dies |
| 1969 | Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78 |
| 1964 | Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76 |
| 1964 | Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68 |
| 1962 | Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65 |
| 1958 | Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 |
| 1956 | George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71 |
| 1953 | James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies |
| 1951 | J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Matthaus Passion), dies at 79 |
| 1946 | Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68 |
| 1945 | J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies |
| 1944 | ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed |
| 1931 | Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 |
| 1929 | Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1924 | R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67 |
| 1923 | Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71 |
| 1922 | Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86 |
| 1909 | Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1906 | Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59 |
| 1890 | Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85 |
| 1867 | Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1845 | Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1838 | Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 |
| 1832 | J. W. Goethe, writer, dies at 82 |
| 1832 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet |
| 1824 | Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1820 | Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41 |
| 1798 | Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1796 | Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1777 | John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 |
| 1771 | Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitrage), dies at 56 |
| 1758 | Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher 'Original Sin', dies at 54 |
| 1743 | Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77 |
| 1661 | Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73 |
| 1639 | Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies |
| 1627 | Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81 |
| 1589 | Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67 |
| 1471 | George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies |
| 337 | Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 |
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