| 2000 | Franklin Garrett, American Historian |
| 1999 | Richard Kiley, actor, Man of La Mancha, dies at 76 |
| 1996 | Joshua Compston, art impressario, dies at 26 |
| 1996 | Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975), dies |
| 1996 | Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Whit Bissell, actor (Time Tunnel), dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Ed Flanders, actor (Dr. Westphal-St. Elsewhere), dies |
| 1995 | Marguerite Kelsey, English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51 |
| 1994 | Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies |
| 1994 | Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player, dies at 75 |
| 1994 | Paul Vincze, medallist, dies at 86 |
| 1993 | Diana Ochoa, dies after long illness at 80 |
| 1993 | Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash |
| 1992 | Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82 |
| 1992 | Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65 |
| 1991 | August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 |
| 1991 | Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 109 |
| 1990 | Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75 |
| 1990 | Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer |
| 1984 | Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na), dies at 39 |
| 1984 | Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68 |
| 1984 | William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91 |
| 1982 | John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33 |
| 1982 | Clifford P. Case, Senator-R-New Jersey 1955 - 1979, Representative-R-New Jersey 1945 - 1953 |
| 1981 | Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice), dies at 64 |
| 1981 | Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86 |
| 1980 | Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60 |
| 1980 | Winifred Wagner-William, German World Festival organizer, dies at 82 |
| 1979 | Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1977 | Lockrem Johnson, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1977 | Moses Pergament, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World), dies at 67 |
| 1974 | Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, U.S. impresario, dies at 85 |
| 1973 | Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues), dies of cancer at 45 |
| 1972 | Nils Bjorkander, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight), dies at 71 |
| 1967 | Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack |
| 1967 | Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53), dies |
| 1967 | Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida |
| 1966 | Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 |
| 1966 | Enrique E Ecker, Curaeaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79 |
| 1966 | Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet |
| 1963 | Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70 |
| 1963 | Hawkshaw Hawkins, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), dies at 41 |
| 1963 | Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30 |
| 1962 | Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82 |
| 1962 | Otakar Jeremias, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1960 | Dornford Yates, British Novelist |
| 1956 | Erich Itor Kahn, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1954 | Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80 |
| 1953 | Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73 |
| 1953 | Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1953 | Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader |
| 1953 | Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer |
| 1952 | Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1950 | Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet |
| 1947 | Alfredo Casella, Italian composer and conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 |
| 1944 | Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 |
| 1941 | Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82 |
| 1932 | Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered |
| 1919 | Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1904 | Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71 |
| 1895 | Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64 |
| 1893 | Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64 |
| 1893 | Richard Samuel Hughes, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1876 | Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70 |
| 1873 | Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer, dies at 34 |
| 1853 | Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75 |
| 1827 | Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 |
| 1827 | Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician |
| 1795 | Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1794 | Ramon de la Cruz, Spanish playwright/translator, dies at 62 |
| 1778 | Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 |
| 1770 | Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre |
| 1732 | Joseph-Franeois Salomon, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1644 | Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau, dies at 73 |
| 1625 | James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 |
| 1605 | Clement VIII, Ippolito Aldofireini, Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69 |
| 1576 | Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70 |
| 1574 | Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht, dies |
| 1561 | Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41 |
| 1291 | Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated |
| 254 | Lucius I, bishop of Rome (253-54), dies |
| 254 | St. Lucius I, Pope (253-54), dies |
