| 2005 | Howell Heflin, American Politician |
| 2005 | Howell Heflin, Senator-D-Alabama 1979 - 1997, died of a heart attack |
| 2004 | Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95 |
| 2003 | Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " |
| 2003 | Harry Ellis Dickson, American Musician |
| 2001 | Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer |
| 1999 | Joe Williams, jazz singer, sang with Count Basie, dies at 80 |
| 1998 | Casey Cisyk, jingle singer, dies at 44 |
| 1997 | Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94 |
| 1996 | Maggie Donnelly, bag lady, dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Carl E Jefferson, record company owner, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Eddie Williams Wiggins, alto saxophone/comedian, dies at 78 |
| 1995 | James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Bill Travers, actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), dies at 72 |
| 1994 | Paul Grimault, animator, dies at 89 |
| 1994 | William Huston Natcher, Representative-D-Kentucky 1953 - 1994, dies at 84 |
| 1992 | Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68 |
| 1992 | Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca), dies at 84 |
| 1991 | Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40 |
| 1991 | Matt Bennett, actor (Hickey and Boggs), dies of brain tumor at 52 |
| 1989 | Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at 73 |
| 1986 | Harry Ritz, actor (3 Musketeers, On the Avenue), dies at 79 |
| 1983 | Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at 65 |
| 1982 | Carl Orff, German composer (Mouth, Antigonae), dies at 86 |
| 1982 | Rudy Bond, actor (Streetcar Named Desire), dies of heart attack at 68 |
| 1982 | Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Nathan F. Twining, American Soldier |
| 1981 | Eric Williams, Prime Minister (Trinidad and Tobago), dies at 79 |
| 1980 | ... Mantovani, orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74 |
| 1979 | Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Seton I Miller, writer, dies at 71 |
| 1972 | J Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, industrialist/film magnate |
| 1970 | Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist |
| 1966 | Harry Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at 50 |
| 1964 | Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 |
| 1959 | Barthelemy Boganda, Central African Republic's 1st president, dies |
| 1959 | Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1958 | W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1957 | Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 |
| 1957 | Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist |
| 1955 | Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely), dies at 81 |
| 1946 | John Clapham, English Economist |
| 1945 | Karl T Sapper, German geographer/geologist (Vulkankunde), dies at 79 |
| 1937 | Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54 |
| 1933 | Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52 |
| 1930 | Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies |
| 1924 | Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/writer, dies at 71 |
| 1917 | Fran Gerbic, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1912 | Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies |
| 1911 | Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1892 | William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75 |
| 1891 | Georges-Pierre Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), dies at 31 |
| 1888 | Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1886 | John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth |
| 1880 | Jakob Axel Josephson, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1866 | Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies |
| 1848 | John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 |
| 1847 | Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66 |
| 1839 | Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/General-major (Maastricht), dies at 56 |
| 1837 | Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies |
| 1802 | Frederic Thieme, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1794 | Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50 |
| 1792 | Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of wounds |
| 1788 | Charles Wesley, hymn writer, dies |
| 1772 | Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Environmentalist |
| 1745 | Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68 |
| 1697 | Nikolaus Bruhns, composer, dies |
| 1655 | Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66 |
| 1650 | Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73 |
| 1546 | Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered |
| 1058 | Stephen IX, [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgian Pope (1057-58), dies |
