| 2008 | William Louis Dickinson, Representative-R-Alabama 1965 - 1993, died from colon cancer |
| 2005 | Frank Perdue, American Businessman |
| 2002 | Barry Took, Comedian |
| 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, poet, 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 |
| 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 |
