| 2004 | Jan Berry, singer, Jan and Dean, dies at 62 |
| 2004 | Jan Sterling, actress, The High and the Mighty, dies at 82 |
| 2003 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001, died from complications from an appendectomy |
| 2002 | Randy Castillo, American Musician |
| 2000 | Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 |
| 1996 | David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Edmund S Muskie, vice President candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician |
| 1995 | Eazy-E, drug dealer, gang member, rapper, producer, regarded as a founder of gangsta rap, member of N.W.A. group, dies of AIDS, at age 31 |
| 1994 | Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41 |
| 1994 | Jan Bor, Dutch violinist and painter, dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Luis Falco, U.S. choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 |
| 1990 | International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38 |
| 1990 | Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68 |
| 1987 | Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88 |
| 1986 | Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy and Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75 |
| 1982 | Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91 |
| 1981 | Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32 |
| 1979 | Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 |
| 1976 | Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75 |
| 1976 | Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, 'My Country and My People' |
| 1975 | Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68 |
| 1973 | George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80 |
| 1973 | Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 |
| 1973 | Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67 |
| 1969 | B. Traven, wrote, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', dies at 87 |
| 1969 | Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66 |
| 1967 | Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies |
| 1962 | Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64 |
| 1960 | Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61 |
| 1959 | Raymond T Chandler, U.S. detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71 |
| 1959 | Raymond Chandler, American Writer |
| 1957 | Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies |
| 1956 | Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1953 | Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1948 | Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 |
| 1945 | David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82 |
| 1945 | Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 |
| 1944 | Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 |
| 1943 | Ben Lindsey, American Judge |
| 1934 | Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1931 | Timothy Healy, Irish Politician |
| 1926 | Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies |
| 1926 | Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74 |
| 1924 | Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1923 | Sarah Bernhardt, Henriette, actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 |
| 1918 | Cesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83 |
| 1914 | Jacob August Riis, Danish Journalist |
| 1909 | Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1902 | Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1890 - 1896 dies at 48 |
| 1900 | Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80 |
| 1896 | Nanny vs. Hof, writer, dies |
| 1892 | Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1892 | Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, New Jersey at 72 |
| 1880 | Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1871 | Francois-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 87 |
| 1865 | Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies |
| 1837 | Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1831 | Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71 |
| 1827 | Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 |
| 1820 | Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1816 | Daniel Waters, American Soldier |
| 1809 | Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1797 | James Hutton, geologist, dies |
| 1736 | Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1726 | John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 |
| 1713 | Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1657 | Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69 |
| 1649 | John Winthrop, Puritan and 1st Governor (Mass), dies |
| 1638 | Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30 |
| 1566 | Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies |
| 1546 | Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies |
| 1350 | Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Leon, dies |
| 1258 | Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies |
| 809 | Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66 |
| 752 | Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies |
BrainyHistory
