| 2004 | Paul Winfield, actor, Sounder, dies at 62 |
| 2000 | Charles Gray, actor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies at 71 |
| 1999 | Stanley Kubrick, director, -2001, dies at 70 |
| 1997 | Martin Kippenberger, German Artist |
| 1997 | Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist |
| 1996 | Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74 |
| 1995 | Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies |
| 1995 | Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force gen, commits suicide at 64 |
| 1995 | John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Arnold Franchetti, Italian/U.S. composer, dies |
| 1993 | Earl Wrightson, singer and actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77 |
| 1991 | Cool Papa Bell, American Athlete |
| 1988 | Divine, Harris Milstead, female impersonator (Pink Flamingos), dies |
| 1988 | Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema |
| 1986 | Jacob K. Javits, New York, Senator-R-New York 1957 - 1981, Representative-R-New York 1947 - 1954, died of Lou Gehrig's disease at 81 |
| 1985 | George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor (Chicago Symphony), dies at 76 |
| 1985 | Robert W. Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95 |
| 1985 | Victor W. Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc, dies |
| 1983 | Igor Markevich, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1983 | Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65 |
| 1982 | Charles Borromeo Mills, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1981 | John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73 |
| 1981 | Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67 |
| 1979 | Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84 |
| 1979 | Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72 |
| 1976 | Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1975 | Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73 |
| 1975 | Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76 |
| 1973 | Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78 |
| 1971 | Stevie Smith, British Poet |
| 1968 | Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, U.S.S.R. cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 |
| 1964 | Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analyst, dies at 73 |
| 1961 | Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter, dies at 42 |
| 1961 | Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60 |
| 1959 | Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies |
| 1959 | Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88 |
| 1957 | Wyndham Lewis, English Author |
| 1955 | Tom Dugan, actor (Pick a Star), dies at 66 |
| 1951 | Ali Razmara, Shah of Iran (1950-51), assassinated |
| 1951 | Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58 |
| 1951 | Shah Ali Razmara, of Iran, assassinated |
| 1945 | Adolf Bartels, German writer/racist, dies at 82 |
| 1941 | Arnold Schering, German musicologist, dies at 63 |
| 1941 | Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle |
| 1940 | Edwin Markham, American Poet |
| 1939 | Amadeo Roldan, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1932 | Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69 |
| 1931 | Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65 |
| 1931 | Theo van Doesburg, Christian Kupper, painter/architect, dies at 47 |
| 1926 | Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1924 | Pat Moran, manager (Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease |
| 1911 | Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 |
| 1907 | Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1883 | Louis Veuillot, French Journalist |
| 1875 | Arthur Helps, British Historian |
| 1862 | Ben McCulloch, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General (KIA), dies at 50 |
| 1862 | John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 |
| 1862 | William Slack, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle |
| 1842 | Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1833 | Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61 |
| 1810 | Albertus H Wiese, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, dies at about 48 |
| 1809 | Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer, dies at 73 |
| 1804 | John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies |
| 1802 | Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1786 | Frantisek Benda, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1761 | Antonio Palella, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1750 | Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52 |
| 1737 | Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/Field Marshal, dies at 79 |
| 1724 | Innocent XIII, Michelangiolo dei Conti, Pope (1721-24), dies at 68 |
| 1719 | Steven J Vennekool, Amsterdam's master builder, buried |
| 1305 | Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78 |
| 1274 | Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48 |
| 1111 | Bohemund I of Tarente, French ruler of Antioch, dies |
| 1040 | Harold I, King of England (1035-40), dies |
| 161 | Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius, emperor of Rome (138-61), dies at 74 |
