| 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 |
| 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, 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, writer, dies at 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 |
