| 2008 | Elaine Dundy, dies at 86, of a heart attack |
| 2005 | Rene Rivkin, Australian Businessman |
| 2000 | Steve Reeves, actor, Italian Hecules movies, dies at 74 |
| 1998 | Otto Bettman, archivist/writer, Started a huge photo archive, dies at 94 |
| 1998 | Eldridge Cleaver, American Activist |
| 1997 | Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40 |
| 1996 | Asher Wallfish, journalist, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday |
| 1994 | Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34 |
| 1994 | Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64 |
| 1993 | Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50 |
| 1993 | Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67 |
| 1993 | Ranasinghe Premadasa, President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68 |
| 1991 | Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies |
| 1990 | Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62 |
| 1989 | David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered |
| 1989 | Douglass Watson, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 68 |
| 1989 | Marion Mack, actress (General), dies |
| 1988 | Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer |
| 1988 | Paolo Stoppa, actor (Garibaldi, Visit, Freedom Fighters), dies |
| 1984 | Gordon Jenkins, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies |
| 1982 | Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72 |
| 1981 | Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75 |
| 1981 | Peter Huchel, writer, dies at 78 |
| 1978 | Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74 |
| 1978 | Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist |
| 1976 | Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75 |
| 1972 | Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82 |
| 1971 | Edith Day, actress (Romance of Air), dies at 75 |
| 1971 | Glenda Farrell, actress (Grand Slam, Exposed), dies at 66 |
| 1969 | Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 |
| 1968 | Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 |
| 1965 | Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53 |
| 1959 | Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies |
| 1957 | Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82 |
| 1954 | Tom Tyler, actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50 |
| 1952 | William Fox, Fried, U.S. film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73 |
| 1948 | Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered |
| 1947 | Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed |
| 1946 | Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1946 | Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1945 | Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59 |
| 1945 | Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide |
| 1941 | John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 |
| 1939 | Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies |
| 1937 | Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 |
| 1934 | Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1932 | Paul Doumer, President France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov |
| 1926 | Nicolaus Adriani, translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60 |
| 1924 | August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62 |
| 1921 | Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1917 | Jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies |
| 1904 | Antonin Dvorak, Czechoslovakian composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62 |
| 1903 | Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80 |
| 1902 | John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 |
| 1900 | Mihaly von Munkacsy, Michael von Lieb, German painter, dies at 56 |
| 1898 | Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81 |
| 1896 | Nasr-ed-Din, shah of Persia (184.-96), murdered at 65 |
| 1892 | Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89 |
| 1886 | Conrad Busken Huet, writer (Country of Rubens) |
| 1886 | Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1874 | Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1873 | David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60 |
| 1872 | Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies |
| 1870 | Francisco Solano Lopez, Field Marshal/president of Paraguay |
| 1863 | Edward Dorr Tracy, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29 |
| 1856 | John Wilbur, American Clergyman |
| 1831 | Antonius van Alphen, apostle vicar of De Bosch, dies at 82 |
| 1813 | Jacques Delille, French Poet |
| 1772 | Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 |
| 1733 | Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor (Saon), dies at 75 |
| 1703 | Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered |
| 1700 | John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies |
| 1679 | Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1572 | Pius V, Antonio Ghislieri, great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies |
| 1555 | Marcellus II, Marcello Cervini, Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 |
| 1471 | Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies at 91 |
| 1456 | Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies |
| 1447 | Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies |
| 1308 | Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered |
| 1277 | Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies |
| 1171 | Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies |
