| 2008 | Robert Rauschenberg, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 82 |
| 2004 | Syd Hoff, cartoonist/children's book illustrator, The New Yorker, dies at 91 |
| 2001 | Perry Como, singer, dies at 88 |
| 2000 | David B. Guralnik, Webster's lexicographer, dies at 79 |
| 2000 | Adam Petty, American Celebrity |
| 1999 | Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35 |
| 1995 | Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95 |
| 1995 | Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion, dies at 71 |
| 1995 | Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 |
| 1994 | Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91 |
| 1994 | Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 |
| 1994 | Erik Erikson, Psychologist |
| 1992 | Joe Burke, president (Kansas City Royals), dies at 68, dies |
| 1992 | Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59 |
| 1989 | Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81 |
| 1989 | Marcelle de Manziarly, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1987 | Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53 |
| 1986 | Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85 |
| 1986 | Lee Bonnell, dies |
| 1985 | Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies |
| 1985 | Jean Dubuffet, French Artist |
| 1984 | Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure |
| 1982 | Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66 |
| 1981 | Benjamin H Sheares, president of Singapore, dies |
| 1980 | Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies |
| 1973 | Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85 |
| 1970 | Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 |
| 1970 | Nelly Sachs, born in Schoenberg, Berlin, writer, poet, dramatist, Jewish, works include, 'Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels', dies at 78 |
| 1967 | Julius Kalas, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1965 | Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 |
| 1963 | Stanislaw Wiechowicz, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1963 | Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman |
| 1962 | Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67 |
| 1960 | Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1960 | Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant |
| 1957 | Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71 |
| 1956 | Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87 |
| 1956 | Louis Calhern, dies at 61 |
| 1956 | Vladimir Ambros, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1951 | Oscar Stanton De Priest, Representative-D-Illinois 1929 - 1935, dies at 80 |
| 1948 | Isidor Achron, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1944 | Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 |
| 1944 | Max Brand, American Writer |
| 1943 | Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48 |
| 1941 | Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48 |
| 1937 | Gerry Studds, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1973 - 1997, died of a pulmonary embolism |
| 1935 | Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies |
| 1932 | Lindbergh baby, found dead |
| 1931 | Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1931 | Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1930 | Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70 |
| 1925 | Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies at 71 |
| 1925 | Amy Lowell, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1925 | Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1924 | Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1921 | Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies |
| 1908 | Melesio Morales, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1907 | J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59 |
| 1897 | Ulrika "Minna" Cant-Johnstown, Finnish playwright, dies at 53 |
| 1897 | Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies |
| 1896 | Juan Morel Campos, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1884 | Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Czechoslovakian composer (2 Widows), dies at 60 |
| 1876 | Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63 |
| 1871 | Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89 |
| 1871 | John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies |
| 1864 | Abner Monroe Perrin, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 37 |
| 1864 | J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31 |
| 1861 | Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50 |
| 1852 | John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies |
| 1845 | August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 |
| 1845 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet |
| 1843 | Johann Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1825 | Elias Mann, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1825 | Stanislao Mattei, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1814 | Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 83 |
| 1811 | Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1796 | Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 |
| 1795 | Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman |
| 1792 | Charles Simon Favart, French Dramatist |
| 1788 | Louis E van Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Austrian duke, dies at 69 |
| 1737 | Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83 |
| 1700 | John Dryden, English Poet |
| 1649 | Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered |
| 1641 | Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 |
| 1634 | George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies |
| 1382 | Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies |
| 1012 | Sergius IV, Pietro Crescentii, Italian Pope (1009-12), dies |
| 1003 | Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome |
| 1003 | Sylvester II, Gerbert van Aurillac, 1st French Pope (999-1003), dies |
| 912 | Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45 |
