| 2002 | David Riesman, American Sociologist |
| 2001 | Deborah Walley, actress, the second movie Gidget, dies at 57 |
| 2000 | Craig Stevens, actor, Peter Gunn, dies at 81 |
| 1999 | Shel Silverstein, writer, Where the Sidewalk Ends, dies at 66 |
| 1997 | Joanie Weston, roller derby queen with the Bay Bombers, dies at 61 |
| 1995 | Harold Berens, comedian, dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Hilde Jarecki, educationist, dies at 83 |
| 1995 | Jimmy Raney, jazz guitarist, dies at 67 |
| 1994 | John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 |
| 1994 | Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74 |
| 1992 | John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81 |
| 1992 | Liesbeth Saijers, sculptor, dies |
| 1992 | Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74 |
| 1991 | Armand HF Boni, Armand the Good, Flemish poet and writer, dies |
| 1990 | Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at 61 |
| 1990 | Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1984 | Joaquin Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist, dies at 41 |
| 1984 | Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56 |
| 1983 | John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92 |
| 1982 | Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies |
| 1982 | Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65 |
| 1979 | John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies |
| 1979 | Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 |
| 1977 | Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69 |
| 1976 | George Curzon, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Jack E Leonard, Chicago, Illinois, comedian, dies at 62 |
| 1973 | Loren Tindall, dies of heart attack at 51 |
| 1971 | Mihail Jora, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Shukichi Mitsukuri, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral vs. England 1936-37), dies |
| 1968 | Philippa Bevans, dies at 55 |
| 1968 | Scotty Beckett, dies at 38 |
| 1965 | Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch Minister of Colonization (1942-45), dies at 70 |
| 1964 | Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35 |
| 1964 | Ignace Lilien, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1960 | Juri Olescha, writer, dies at 61 |
| 1950 | John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies |
| 1943 | Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged |
| 1943 | Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged |
| 1943 | Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged |
| 1942 | Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74 |
| 1940 | Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 |
| 1937 | Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wuste), dies |
| 1924 | Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 |
| 1923 | Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated |
| 1920 | John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies |
| 1915 | Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle |
| 1910 | Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 |
| 1910 | William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies |
| 1909 | Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies |
| 1904 | Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies |
| 1904 | Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer |
| 1897 | William Thomas Best, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1885 | Edward Stephen, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1885 | Ferdinand Hiller, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1880 | John Goss, composer, organist, wrote hymn 'Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven', dies at 79 |
| 1869 | Bernhard Molique, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1869 | Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1864 | James Clay Rice, lawyer/Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 34 |
| 1864 | Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27 |
| 1863 | Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Confederate general (Civil War), dies |
| 1863 | Thomas J. Jackson, American Soldier |
| 1860 | Theodore Parker, American Theologian |
| 1859 | Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief and Housewife), dies |
| 1849 | Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89 |
| 1833 | Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician, dies at 74 |
| 1829 | Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies |
| 1826 | Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1820 | Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1818 | Paul Revere, American patriot, dies |
| 1798 | George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40 |
| 1794 | Elisabeth PMH, princess of France, beheaded at 30 |
| 1789 | Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1785 | Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1784 | Antoine Court de Gebelin, French vicar/writer, dies at 56 |
| 1774 | Louis XV, king of France (1715-74), dies at 64 |
| 1770 | Charles Avison, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1764 | Picander, Christian Henrici, German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies |
| 1760 | Johann Christoph Graupner, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1710 | Georg Dietrich Leiding, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1696 | Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50 |
| 1653 | John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 |
| 1637 | Susanna van Baerle, Dutch wife of Constantine Huygens, dies at 37 |
| 1569 | Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer |
| 1566 | Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 |
| 995 | Boudouin, bishop of Utrecht |
| 238 | Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered |
