| 2005 | Don Rose, American Entertainer |
| 2005 | Fred Korematsu, American Celebrity |
| 2004 | Alistair Cooke, American Journalist |
| 2003 | Michael Jeter, actor, Evening Shade, dies at 50 |
| 2002 | Ed Turner, American Journalist |
| 1999 | Gary Morton, producer/actor, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Ryoei Saito, businessman, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer, dies at 65 |
| 1995 | Paul A Rothchild, record producer, dies at 59 |
| 1995 | Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Sid Weiss, musician, jazz double-bassist, dies at 79 |
| 1993 | Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly and Samy), dies hiking at 20 |
| 1993 | Richard C Diebenkorn, Jr., U.S. painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72 |
| 1992 | Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies |
| 1991 | Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor and writer (Friends of My Friends), dies |
| 1990 | Harry Bridges, American Activist |
| 1989 | Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies |
| 1986 | James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in New York at 86 |
| 1986 | John Ciardi, U.S. poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 |
| 1985 | Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76 |
| 1984 | Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies |
| 1984 | Karl Rahner, German Theologian |
| 1983 | Pal Kadosa, Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at 79 |
| 1981 | Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91 |
| 1979 | Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb |
| 1978 | George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies |
| 1977 | Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1976 | Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 |
| 1975 | Peter Bamm, writer, dies |
| 1974 | Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79 |
| 1972 | Gabriel Heather, U.S. news anchor, dies at 81 |
| 1972 | Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55 |
| 1971 | Selmer Jackson, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 82 |
| 1969 | Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer, dies at 34 |
| 1966 | Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 |
| 1966 | Maxfield Parrish, U.S. painter, dies at 95 |
| 1964 | Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76 |
| 1963 | Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1961 | P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies |
| 1960 | Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90 |
| 1960 | Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 |
| 1956 | Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist |
| 1955 | Harl McDonald, U.S. composer (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 55 |
| 1953 | Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1950 | Leon Blum, French premier (People's Front Government), dies at 77 |
| 1949 | Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64 |
| 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi |
| 1946 | John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59 |
| 1945 | Karel Moor, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1942 | Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81 |
| 1940 | John Gilmour, Scottish Politician |
| 1935 | Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1926 | Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48 |
| 1925 | Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy), dies at 64 |
| 1912 | Karl May, German writer (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi), dies at 70 |
| 1910 | Jean Moreas, Y Papadiamantopoulos, Greek/French poet, dies at 53 |
| 1906 | Betsy Perk, Christina E, journalist/writer/feminist, dies at 73 |
| 1884 | Hans Hampel, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1879 | David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74 |
| 1879 | Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 |
| 1875 | Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1873 | Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox), dies at 63 |
| 1872 | Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1871 | W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42 |
| 1864 | Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52 |
| 1840 | George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies |
| 1764 | Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 68 |
| 1757 | Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1707 | Sebastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73 |
| 1547 | Francois I of Valois-Angoulame, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52 |
| 1202 | Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies |
| 988 | Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies |
