| 2005 | Greg Garrison, American Director |
| 2000 | Helen Martin, actress, Bulworth, dies at 90 |
| 1998 | Steven Schiff, Representative-R-New Mexico 1989 - 1998, died of Melanoma |
| 1997 | Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies |
| 1996 | John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91 |
| 1995 | James Gardner, designer, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Warren E Burger, chief justice of U.S. (1969-86), dies |
| 1994 | David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32 |
| 1992 | Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69 |
| 1992 | Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies |
| 1991 | Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78 |
| 1991 | Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96 |
| 1989 | Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies |
| 1988 | James J. Howard, Representative-D-New Jersey 1965 - 1988 |
| 1987 | Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83 |
| 1983 | Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72 |
| 1979 | ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered |
| 1979 | Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1978 | Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85 |
| 1974 | Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72 |
| 1973 | Edward Steichen, pioneer of U.S. photography, dies at 93 |
| 1969 | Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72 |
| 1969 | Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 |
| 1969 | Max Eastman, American Author |
| 1968 | Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood |
| 1965 | Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1965 | Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered |
| 1963 | David Moore, U.S. feather weight boxer, dies at 29 |
| 1962 | Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78 |
| 1959 | Billy Mayerl, composer, pianist, master of light music, composed works for piano and orchestra, developed syncopated novelty piano solos, 300 piano pieces, most named after flowers and trees, dies at 56 |
| 1958 | Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1957 | Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1956 | George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1956 | Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50 |
| 1954 | Gertrud Baumer, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63 |
| 1949 | Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54 |
| 1948 | Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42 |
| 1940 | Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1937 | John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 |
| 1931 | Ida B. Wells, American Activist |
| 1918 | Claude A Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55 |
| 1914 | Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies |
| 1910 | Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 63 |
| 1909 | Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1880 | Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1880 | Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies |
| 1852 | Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1835 | Friederike Blum, writer, dies |
| 1825 | Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63 |
| 1823 | Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1801 | Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69 |
| 1801 | Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28 |
| 1799 | Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1766 | Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26 |
| 1751 | Frederik of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74 |
| 1697 | Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies |
| 1692 | Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66 |
| 1609 | Johan Willem, duke of Julich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies |
| 1510 | Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49 |
| 1458 | Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies |
| 1223 | Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36 |