| 2006 | Stanley Kunitz, American Poet |
| 2004 | Anna Lee, actress, General Hospital, dies at 90 |
| 2004 | Charlotte Benkner, the world's second oldest person for a few years, dies at 114 |
| 2003 | Robert Stack, actor, The Untouchables, dies at 84 |
| 2003 | Wendy Hiller, actress, Pygmalion, dies at 90 |
| 2000 | Karl Shapiro, American Poet |
| 1999 | Bill Ballantine, clown, Ringling Brothers Clown College, dies at 87 |
| 1998 | Frank Sinatra, singer/actor, From Here to Eternity, dies at 82 |
| 1998 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist/author, dies at 108 |
| 1997 | Harry Blackstone, Jr., magician, dies of cancer at 62 |
| 1997 | Laurie Lee, writer |
| 1997 | "Harry Blackstone, Jr.", magician, dies at 62 |
| 1997 | Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, royalty, a direct descendent of Prince Vlad the Impaler, who was nicknamed Dracula, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Thelma Carpenter, singer, The Wiz |
| 1996 | Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1996 | Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer, 1st Sri Lankan Test player to die |
| 1996 | Vera Chapman, writer, dies at 98 |
| 1995 | Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64 |
| 1994 | Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies |
| 1993 | Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40 |
| 1993 | William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies of cancer at 43 |
| 1991 | Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies |
| 1991 | Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies |
| 1991 | Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide |
| 1991 | John Edward Craven, dies |
| 1991 | Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies |
| 1990 | Andre Ameller, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1988 | Willem Drees, Prime Minister of Netherland 1948 - 1958, dies at 101 |
| 1987 | Rita Hayworth, actress (Gilda), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 68 |
| 1985 | Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed |
| 1984 | Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies |
| 1983 | Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/president of Mexico (1946-52), dies at 80 |
| 1982 | Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies |
| 1982 | Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73 |
| 1980 | Hugh Griffith, actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), dies at 67 |
| 1980 | Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79 |
| 1979 | Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist and writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57 |
| 1976 | Keith Relf, rock vocalist (Yardbirds), electrocuted at 33 |
| 1970 | Billie Burke, comedienne (Glinda-Wizard of Oz), dies at 84 |
| 1969 | Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant U.S. Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Georgia BD Camp Johnson, U.S. poet/playwright, dies at 88 |
| 1966 | Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64 |
| 1965 | Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83 |
| 1959 | Sidney Bechet, U.S. jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62 |
| 1955 | Betty Ann Davies, dies at 44 |
| 1954 | Heinz Guderian, German Soldier |
| 1953 | Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/U.S. painter/etcher, dies at 59 |
| 1947 | John Ray Sinnock, U.S. chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59 |
| 1943 | Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Lawyer |
| 1940 | Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies |
| 1940 | Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49 |
| 1940 | Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38 |
| 1938 | Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto), dies at 81 |
| 1936 | Edmond HH Allenby, English Field Marshal in Egypt, dies at 74 |
| 1936 | Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71 |
| 1931 | David Belasco, American Playwright |
| 1925 | Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies |
| 1925 | H. Rider Haggard, English Writer |
| 1919 | Henry J. Heinz, American Businessman |
| 1912 | August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies at 63 |
| 1912 | Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68 |
| 1904 | Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78 |
| 1893 | Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 |
| 1893 | Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65 |
| 1887 | Lysander Spooner, American Philosopher |
| 1877 | John Roberts, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1870 | Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1864 | William N. Green, Jr., Union Brigadier-General, dies |
| 1863 | Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1847 | Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41 |
| 1833 | Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1832 | John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried |
| 1820 | Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43 |
| 1801 | Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1761 | Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 |
| 1742 | Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64 |
| 1726 | John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies |
| 1726 | Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies |
| 1667 | Georges de Scudery, French writer (Alaric ou Rome Vaincue), dies at 65 |
| 1643 | Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41 |
| 1610 | Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56 |
| 1565 | Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies |
| 964 | John XII, Octavianus, Pope (955-64), dies |
| 649 | Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies |
| 347 | Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies |
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