| 2003 | Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66 |
| 2002 | Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95 |
| 2002 | Dudley Moore, actor, Arthur, dies at 66 |
| 2002 | Milton Berle, comedian, 'The Milton Berle Show', dies at 93 |
| 2000 | Ian Dury, rocker, the Blockheads, dies at 57 |
| 1998 | David F. Powers, American Politician |
| 1998 | Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies |
| 1995 | Albert Drach, writer, dies |
| 1995 | Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75 |
| 1995 | Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70 |
| 1994 | Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 |
| 1993 | Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61 |
| 1993 | Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1993 | Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88 |
| 1993 | Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Anita Colby, U.S. model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89 |
| 1992 | Gerry Duggan, dies at 82 |
| 1992 | James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies |
| 1991 | Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer |
| 1991 | Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1991 | Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77 |
| 1991 | Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50 |
| 1989 | May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies |
| 1988 | Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67 |
| 1987 | Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 |
| 1986 | Cass Canfield, U.S. publisher, dies at 88 |
| 1983 | James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75 |
| 1983 | Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1982 | Joris Noe, Flemish literary, dies at 68 |
| 1979 | Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82 |
| 1978 | Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73 |
| 1977 | Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41 |
| 1977 | Eve Meyer, actress and pin-up model, dies in a plane crash at 46 |
| 1977 | Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1975 | Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 |
| 1975 | Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63 |
| 1973 | Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1972 | Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73 |
| 1972 | M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist |
| 1968 | Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 |
| 1967 | Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49 |
| 1966 | Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82 |
| 1961 | Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37 |
| 1959 | Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54 |
| 1956 | Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84 |
| 1953 | Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1948 | Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64 |
| 1946 | Gabriela Preissova, writer, dies |
| 1945 | Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42 |
| 1943 | Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash |
| 1939 | Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 |
| 1938 | Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66 |
| 1931 | Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies |
| 1929 | ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies |
| 1928 | Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1925 | Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92 |
| 1924 | Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1923 | James Dewar, Scottish Scientist |
| 1922 | Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1920 | Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 |
| 1918 | Henry B. Adams, Historian |
| 1910 | Alexander E Agassiz, U.S. businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74 |
| 1910 | David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1900 | Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69 |
| 1898 | Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 |
| 1894 | Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49 |
| 1889 | Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1889 | John Bright, British Politician |
| 1886 | Henry Taylor, English Dramatist |
| 1878 | Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1878 | George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies |
| 1875 | Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72 |
| 1850 | Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 |
| 1826 | Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1809 | Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92 |
| 1770 | Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73 |
| 1769 | Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1761 | Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1757 | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1714 | Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 |
| 1701 | Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/French admiral, dies at 58 |
| 1679 | Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38 |
| 1668 | Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1625 | James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58 |
| 1625 | King James I, Royalty |
| 1482 | Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25 |
| 1472 | Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37 |
| 1378 | Gregory XI, Pierre R the Beaufort, last French Pope (1370-78), dies |
| 1211 | Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56 |
| 965 | Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies |
| 922 | Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64 |
