| 2002 | Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87 |
| 2001 | Douglas Adams, hysterically-funny writer, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, dies at 49 |
| 1997 | Brenda Carlin, TV producer and wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57 |
| 1996 | Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48 |
| 1996 | Malcolm MacEwen, writer, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-66), dies |
| 1996 | Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash |
| 1995 | Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. Ed), dies at 96 |
| 1995 | David Avidan, poet and writer, dies at 62 |
| 1995 | William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 |
| 1994 | Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Danny Overbea, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Lewis B Puller, U.S. writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48 |
| 1994 | Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64 |
| 1992 | Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic and Span), dies at 98 |
| 1991 | Filip J Field, dies at 67 |
| 1991 | Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies |
| 1988 | H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies |
| 1985 | Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84 |
| 1985 | Garmt Stuiveling, literatrary (Ego and Echo), dies at 77 |
| 1985 | Jorja Curtright, actor (Whistle Stop), dies of a heart attack |
| 1985 | Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies |
| 1983 | Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 |
| 1982 | Leigh Snowden, actress (Hot Rod Rumble), dies at 51 of cancer |
| 1982 | Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70 |
| 1981 | Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain and lung cancer at 36 |
| 1981 | Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57 |
| 1979 | Joan Chandler, dies at 55 |
| 1979 | Lester Raymond Flatt, musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64 |
| 1978 | John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 |
| 1976 | Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78 |
| 1976 | Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1976 | J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to France, murdered |
| 1973 | Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies |
| 1965 | Ludovicus H "Lode" Baekelmans, Flemish playwright, dies at 86 |
| 1965 | Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 |
| 1960 | John D Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist, dies at 86 |
| 1960 | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman |
| 1956 | Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 |
| 1953 | Jean Adair, dies at 80 |
| 1952 | Giovanni Tebaldini, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1949 | Adrianus PHA de Kleyn, throat/nose/otologist (ear doctor), dies at 65 |
| 1947 | Else JT Rangstrom, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies |
| 1947 | Ture Rangstrom, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1944 | Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 |
| 1938 | Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet (El dulce dano/suicide), dies at 45 |
| 1938 | Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Hours of Solitude), dies at 81 |
| 1937 | Viliam Figus, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1935 | Edward H Thompson, U.S. archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78 |
| 1927 | Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90 |
| 1927 | Juan Gris, Spanish cubist painter, dies at 40 |
| 1920 | William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 |
| 1917 | Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1916 | Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies |
| 1916 | Max Reger, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1916 | Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 |
| 1914 | Daniel De Leon, Activist |
| 1908 | Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer |
| 1907 | John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1895 | Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1885 | Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist, composer and conductor, dies at 73 |
| 1881 | Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Journal Intime), dies at 59 |
| 1871 | John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 |
| 1857 | E Francois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81 |
| 1849 | Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1849 | Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor, dies at 39 |
| 1845 | Karoly Filtsch, composer, dies at 14 |
| 1819 | Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1779 | John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68 |
| 1778 | William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 |
| 1772 | Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged |
| 1742 | Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 |
| 1731 | Mary Astell, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage', dies soon after having breast cancer |
| 1631 | Christoph Buel, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1610 | Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies |
