| 2008 | Richard Widmark, dies in Connecticut, after a long illness, at 93 |
| 1996 | Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66 |
| 1995 | Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Joseph Needham, British Scientist |
| 1994 | Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated |
| 1994 | Tommy Benford, jazz drummer, dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35 |
| 1993 | John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90 |
| 1993 | Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1990 | Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies |
| 1990 | An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer |
| 1990 | Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob and Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68 |
| 1990 | Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St. Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56 |
| 1986 | Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67 |
| 1984 | Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr. Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93 |
| 1982 | Ace Goodman, Kansas City, Missouri, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83 |
| 1980 | Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass |
| 1979 | Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53 |
| 1978 | Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 |
| 1977 | Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 |
| 1976 | Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66 |
| 1975 | Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60 |
| 1975 | Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1974 | Doris Deane, dies at 74 |
| 1974 | Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect |
| 1969 | Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55 |
| 1968 | Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61 |
| 1968 | Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70 |
| 1967 | Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1964 | Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59 |
| 1960 | Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at 70 |
| 1953 | Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 |
| 1953 | Mary, queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, dies at 85 |
| 1948 | Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher |
| 1946 | Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53 |
| 1946 | Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1945 | J S Nicklin, Lt-colonel/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies |
| 1945 | Thomas Rennie, General-Major (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies |
| 1937 | Leopold Courouble, Belgian writer (Pauline Flatbread), dies at 76 |
| 1921 | Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1918 | Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1916 | Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48 |
| 1911 | Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies |
| 1909 | John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 |
| 1909 | John Synge, Irish Poet |
| 1905 | Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 |
| 1894 | Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1882 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75 |
| 1881 | Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 |
| 1878 | Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1877 | Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 |
| 1867 | Mary, Victoria MALOPCA of Teck, queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85 |
| 1866 | Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies |
| 1842 | Stendhal [Marie-H Beyle], French writer (The Love), buried at 59 |
| 1838 | Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1825 | Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1823 | Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66 |
| 1755 | Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1661 | William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston |
| 1654 | Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 |
| 1644 | Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies |
| 1635 | Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42 |
| 1631 | Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1603 | Elizabeth I Tudor, Maiden Queen, U.K. queen (1558-1603), dies at 69 |
| 1558 | Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies |
| 1471 | Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 |
| 1455 | Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 |
| 1455 | Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies |
| 1400 | Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies |
| 809 | Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44 |
