| 2005 | Eddie Barclay, French Musician |
| 2001 | Jason Miller, playwright/actor, That Championship Season, dies at 62 |
| 2000 | Paul Bartel, director/actor, Eating Raoul, dies at 61 |
| 1999 | Meg Greenfield, journalist, Washington Post, dies at 68 |
| 1996 | John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57 |
| 1994 | Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74 |
| 1994 | Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88 |
| 1993 | Borolas, Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comedian (Santa Sangre), dies at 71 |
| 1993 | Evert "Eef" Dolman, Dutch cyclist 1964 Olympic gold, dies at 47 |
| 1993 | Joaquin Garcia, Mexican comic actor, dies of heart attack at 71 |
| 1992 | Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58 |
| 1991 | Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83 |
| 1990 | Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies |
| 1988 | Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59 |
| 1985 | Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies in Riverdale (Bronx) New York City at 91 |
| 1985 | Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1984 | Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician |
| 1982 | Irmgard Keun, W-German writer (Bluhende Neurosen), dies at 72 |
| 1982 | Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1982 | Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74 |
| 1981 | Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1979 | Nelly Aenders, actress (In Pyama), dies at 65 |
| 1975 | Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), dies at 69 |
| 1972 | Dan Blocker, actor (Hoss-Bonanza), dies at 41 |
| 1971 | Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67 |
| 1967 | Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64 |
| 1966 | Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies |
| 1962 | Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies of cancer at 60 |
| 1962 | Franz Jozef Kline, U.S. expressionist painter, dies at 51 |
| 1962 | H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water) |
| 1962 | Franz Kline, American Artist |
| 1961 | Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60 |
| 1956 | Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 |
| 1951 | Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65 |
| 1942 | Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1933 | Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa', dies at 67 in Sankt Georgen, Austria |
| 1931 | Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1930 | Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies |
| 1930 | Helena Lange, German feminist, dies |
| 1925 | Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies |
| 1916 | Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies |
| 1914 | R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies |
| 1904 | Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies |
| 1896 | Nora Perry, writer, dies |
| 1892 | Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1885 | Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies |
| 1884 | Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies |
| 1882 | Jules-Nicolas Crevaux, French explorer, murdered at 35 |
| 1878 | Joseph Henry, American Scientist |
| 1873 | Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1864 | Junius Daniel, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 35 |
| 1839 | Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies |
| 1839 | Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies |
| 1835 | John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies |
| 1832 | Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La Regne Animal), dies at 62 |
| 1831 | Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74 |
| 1812 | Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1809 | Beilby Porteus, British Clergyman |
| 1793 | Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1787 | Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1776 | Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71 |
| 1732 | Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1619 | Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded |
| 1390 | Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies |
| 1381 | John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies |
| 384 | Servatius/Aravatius, bishop of Tongeren, dies at 65+ |
