| 2004 | Cecily Adams, casting director/actress, Deep Space Nine, dies at 46 |
| 2003 | Horst Buchholz, actor, The Magnificent Seven, dies at 69 |
| 2002 | Harlan Howard, American Musician |
| 2001 | Louis Edmonds, actor, Dark Shadows, dies at 77 |
| 1997 | Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies |
| 1996 | David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95 |
| 1996 | Leo Malet, writer, novelist, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Lyle Talbot, actor 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Marguerite Duras, writer, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84 |
| 1995 | Howard Hunter, U.S. leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50 |
| 1994 | Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49 |
| 1993 | Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89 |
| 1993 | Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35 |
| 1992 | Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 |
| 1992 | Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1991 | Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia |
| 1991 | Clara Eggink, Ebbele, Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84 |
| 1990 | Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Med), dies at 88 |
| 1988 | Lois Wilson, actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies |
| 1988 | Sewall Wright, U.S. geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98 |
| 1987 | Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74 |
| 1985 | Sarah Blanding, 1st U.S. fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86 |
| 1983 | Arthur Koestler, Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77 |
| 1982 | Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45 |
| 1977 | Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93 |
| 1976 | Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92 |
| 1975 | Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73 |
| 1974 | Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43 |
| 1974 | Frank Wilcox, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66 |
| 1967 | Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1966 | Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52 |
| 1966 | William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89 |
| 1965 | Carlo Gatti, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1960 | Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 |
| 1959 | Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott and Costello), dies at 52 |
| 1956 | Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79 |
| 1952 | Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist |
| 1948 | Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1945 | Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61 |
| 1945 | Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75 |
| 1942 | Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43 |
| 1941 | Constant W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, archaeologist, banker, art expert, dies at 59 |
| 1941 | Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed |
| 1938 | Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32 |
| 1934 | Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1932 | Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1928 | Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69 |
| 1926 | Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1921 | Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93 |
| 1902 | Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79 |
| 1896 | ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries |
| 1889 | Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1879 | William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician |
| 1864 | Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21 |
| 1858 | Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54 |
| 1848 | Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies |
| 1824 | Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70 |
| 1822 | Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1800 | Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1792 | Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63 |
| 1768 | Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1766 | Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1717 | Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75 |
| 1707 | Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88 |
| 1706 | Johann Pachelbel, organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52 |
| 1703 | Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London |
| 1635 | Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies |
| 1580 | Jacob Hillebrand, Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies |
| 1554 | Johan F de Greatmoedige, ruler of Saxon, dies |
| 1554 | Johan Frederik, the Generous, elector of Saxon (1532-47), dies at 50 |
| 1459 | Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies |
| 1191 | Saladin [Salah ad-Din] Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52 |
| 561 | Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies |
