| 2005 | Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen Politician |
| 2004 | Robert Pastorelli, actor/boxer, Murphy Brown, dies at 49 |
| 2004 | Abu Abbas, Palestinian Politician |
| 2003 | Karen Morley, American Actress |
| 2001 | Edward Winter, actor, TV's M*A*S*H, dies at 63 |
| 1999 | Joe DiMaggio, athlete, dies at 84 |
| 1999 | Peggy Cass, actress, Auntie Mame, dies at 74 |
| 1997 | Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Alexander Salkind, producer, Superman, dies at 75 |
| 1996 | Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38 |
| 1995 | Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55 |
| 1994 | Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Knut Haukelid, Norway/U.S. resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82 |
| 1993 | Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke |
| 1993 | Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78 |
| 1993 | Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69 |
| 1993 | Wells Root, U.S. screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92 |
| 1992 | Red Callender, U.S. jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Hubert Fichte, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, dies at 50 |
| 1985 | Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack |
| 1985 | Thomas Creighton, U.S. heart patient (3 implants in 46 hours), dies at 33 |
| 1983 | William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80 |
| 1979 | Gerard Blitz, Dutch 400m swimmer (WR), dies at 78 |
| 1977 | Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86 |
| 1975 | George Stevens, U.S. director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56 |
| 1974 | Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56 |
| 1973 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27 |
| 1971 | Harold Lloyd, U.S. comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77 |
| 1967 | John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46 |
| 1965 | Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72 |
| 1961 | Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81 |
| 1959 | Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered |
| 1958 | Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85 |
| 1957 | Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1955 | Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82 |
| 1951 | Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair |
| 1951 | John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1950 | Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1945 | H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald |
| 1945 | Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 |
| 1942 | Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53 |
| 1941 | Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1941 | Sherwood Anderson, U.S. writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64 |
| 1937 | Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71 |
| 1936 | Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 |
| 1932 | Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84 |
| 1931 | Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1930 | William H. Taft, 27th U.S. President 1909 - 1913, Chief Justice, dies at 72 |
| 1923 | Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85 |
| 1920 | Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69 |
| 1919 | Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1917 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78 |
| 1901 | Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64 |
| 1901 | Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (High Mass), dies at 66 |
| 1889 | Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85 |
| 1887 | Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 |
| 1887 | Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman |
| 1874 | Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 |
| 1869 | Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 |
| 1869 | Hector Berlioz, French Composer |
| 1862 | Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1862 | Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in New York City for stealing 1,000 slaves |
| 1828 | Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1754 | Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies |
| 1734 | Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33 |
| 1728 | Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 |
| 1724 | Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81 |
| 1720 | Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1716 | Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1709 | William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62 |
| 1702 | John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69 |
| 1702 | William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 |
| 1661 | Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 |
| 1640 | Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1638 | Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73 |
| 1550 | Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55 |
| 1466 | Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64 |
| 1403 | Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42 |
| 1144 | Celestine II, Guido, Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle |
| 883 | Albumasar, Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi, Arabic astronomer, dies |
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