| 2006 | Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant |
| 2005 | Tom Bevill, Representative-D-Alabama 1967 - 1997, died from heart problems at age 84 |
| 2004 | Art James, game show host/announcer, ", The Who, What, Where Game, ", dies at 74 |
| 2004 | Peter Ustinov, actor/writer, Spartacus, dies at 82 |
| 2000 | Anthony Powell, British Novelist |
| 1996 | Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95 |
| 1996 | Edith Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Shin Kanemaru, Vice President of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32 |
| 1995 | Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Albert Goldman, U.S. biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74 |
| 1992 | Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72 |
| 1991 | Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85 |
| 1990 | Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65 |
| 1987 | Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82 |
| 1987 | Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr. Who-Dr. Who), dies at 56 |
| 1986 | Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39 |
| 1986 | Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies |
| 1985 | Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97 |
| 1985 | Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53 |
| 1984 | Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead |
| 1983 | Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71 |
| 1983 | Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77 |
| 1980 | Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies |
| 1980 | Jesse Owens, 4 Gold Medals 1936 Olympics, dies at the age of 66 |
| 1979 | Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 |
| 1975 | Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1974 | Dorothy Fields, U.S. singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68 |
| 1974 | Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 |
| 1973 | Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies |
| 1971 | Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1969 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president/general WWII, dies in Washington at 78 |
| 1969 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President |
| 1965 | VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67 |
| 1963 | Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Ian Keith, U.S. actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61 |
| 1958 | Chuck Klein, Philadelphia Phillie home run hitter, dies at 53 |
| 1958 | William C. Handy, U.S. conductor and composer (St. Louis Blues), dies at 84 |
| 1958 | William Christopher Handy, American Musician |
| 1957 | Christopher Morley, American Author |
| 1956 | Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack |
| 1954 | Francis B Young, British physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69 |
| 1953 | James Francis Thorpe, decathelete, 2 Gold Medals 1912 Olympics, dies at 64 |
| 1950 | Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67 |
| 1949 | Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1947 | Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1944 | Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis |
| 1944 | Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75 |
| 1943 | Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69 |
| 1942 | Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67 |
| 1942 | Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31 |
| 1941 | Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 |
| 1941 | Virginia Woolf, British Author |
| 1928 | Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1927 | Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1914 | Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1910 | Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist and conductor, dies |
| 1908 | John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68 |
| 1907 | Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1896 | E Rundle Charles, writer, dies |
| 1889 | Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler |
| 1887 | Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75 |
| 1885 | Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1881 | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1880 | Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1880 | Eelco Refer, linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at 49 |
| 1877 | Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1868 | James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70 |
| 1865 | Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26 |
| 1863 | James Cooper, U.S. attorney/senator/Union-Brigadier-General, dies at 52 |
| 1860 | Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1856 | Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1849 | Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44 |
| 1847 | Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1840 | Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89 |
| 1818 | Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1801 | Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 |
| 1799 | Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55 |
| 1712 | Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75 |
| 1701 | Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75 |
| 1687 | Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90 |
| 1677 | Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69 |
| 1673 | Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51 |
| 1566 | Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79 |
| 1285 | Martinus IV, Simon de Brion, Pope (1281-85), dies |
| 1134 | Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of Cateaux/saint, dies |
| 593 | Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67 |
| 193 | Publius Helvius Pertinax, Roman Emperor (192-93), assassinated |
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