| 2008 | William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer |
| 2005 | Frank Perdue, American Businessman |
| 2002 | Barry Took, comedian, writer, television presenter on BBC program Points of View and BBC Radio 4 program The News Quiz, wrote comedy with Mary Feldman |
| 1998 | Bella Abzug, Representative-D-New York, 1971 - 1977, dies at 77 from complications following open heart surgery |
| 1998 | Tim Flock, American Celebrity |
| 1997 | Laxmishankar Pathak, food retailer, dies at 62 |
| 1997 | Edwin Haig Alberian, TV celebrity, played Clarabell |
| 1996 | Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 |
| 1996 | Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37 |
| 1996 | Julius Young, fast food entrepreneur, dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24 |
| 1994 | Leon J Ramirez Reine, Degrelle, Belg/Spanish nazi (Rex), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Brandon Lee, U.S. actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot at 28 |
| 1993 | Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies |
| 1991 | John Carter, U.S. jazz clarinetist (Roots and folklore), dies |
| 1990 | Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, Tonight), dies |
| 1988 | Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1986 | Harry Ritz, comedian/actor (Ritz Brothers), dies at 79 |
| 1986 | Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 |
| 1986 | O'Kelly Isley, U.S., singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48 |
| 1983 | Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70 |
| 1982 | Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85 |
| 1980 | Jesse Owens, American Athlete |
| 1978 | Astrid Allwyn, actress (Love Affair, Girl for Calgary), dies at 68 |
| 1974 | Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57 |
| 1973 | Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1971 | Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31 |
| 1970 | Semjon Timoshenko, Russian marshal/inspector-general (WW II), dies at 75 |
| 1967 | Don Alvarado, actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62 |
| 1967 | Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1961 | Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85 |
| 1960 | Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68 |
| 1957 | Gene Lockhart, New York City actor (Going My Way), dies at 65 |
| 1954 | Edwin Armstrong, American Inventor |
| 1951 | Ralph Forbes, actor (Riptide, Shock, Shock), dies at 45 |
| 1948 | Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62 |
| 1945 | Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63 |
| 1945 | Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45 |
| 1944 | Mineichi Koga, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies |
| 1939 | Indrid Einarsson, Iceland playwright dies at 87 |
| 1938 | Willem J T Kloos, Dutch poet/critic (New Guide), dies at 78 |
| 1934 | Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at 88 |
| 1931 | Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43 |
| 1928 | Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 |
| 1928 | Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 |
| 1914 | Ch Morgenstern, writer, dies at 42 |
| 1914 | Christian Morgenstern, German Poet |
| 1913 | John Pierpont Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75 |
| 1901 | John Stainer, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1898 | Edward Noyes Westcott, U.S. attorney/writer (David Harum), dies |
| 1894 | William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist |
| 1892 | Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1886 | Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1885 | Franz W. Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies |
| 1885 | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65 |
| 1885 | Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1884 | Jan T Beelen, Netherlands/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77 |
| 1881 | Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1880 | Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44 |
| 1877 | Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75 |
| 1855 | Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38 |
| 1850 | John Calhoun, dies at 68 |
| 1837 | John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 |
| 1809 | Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday |
| 1741 | Peter Burmannus, Peter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72 |
| 1727 | Isaac Newton, English Mathematician |
| 1722 | Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist/exegete, dies at 62 |
| 1656 | Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1631 | John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) |
| 1621 | Felipe III, King of Spain (1598-1621), dies at 42 |
| 1578 | Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered |
| 1567 | Philip, the Generous, count of Hessen, dies at 62 |
| 1389 | Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered |
| 1340 | Ivan I Kalita, grand-duke of Vladimir, dies |
| 1201 | Absalon Assersson, Danish archbishop of Lund/statesman, dies |
