| 2008 | Willis Lamb, dies in Tucson, Arizona, complications of a gallstone disorder, at 94 |
| 2008 | Robert Mondavi, dies in Yountville, California, at 94 |
| 2007 | Jerry Falwell, dies in Virginia, of cardiac arrest, at 73 |
| 2006 | Chic Hecht, Missouri, Senator-R-Nevada 1983 - 1989, died of prostate cancer |
| 2003 | June Carter Cash, singer/actress, The Apostle, dies at 73 |
| 2003 | June Carter, American Musician |
| 2002 | "Darwood ""Ken"" Kaye Smith", actor/minister, Our Gang, dies at 72 |
| 1999 | John Minor Wisdom, American Judge |
| 1996 | George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57 |
| 1995 | Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69 |
| 1995 | Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68 |
| 1995 | Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52 |
| 1994 | Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina and F), murdered at 61 |
| 1994 | Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71 |
| 1994 | Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71 |
| 1994 | [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44 |
| 1992 | Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88 |
| 1991 | Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84 |
| 1991 | Freddie Paris, dies |
| 1991 | Reno Brown, dies |
| 1989 | John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1988 | Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1988 | Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies |
| 1987 | John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 |
| 1987 | Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies |
| 1986 | Theodore H White, U.S. journalist (Making of President, Pulitzer), dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Theodore White, American Journalist |
| 1985 | Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38 |
| 1984 | Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Francis Schaeffer, American Theologian |
| 1983 | James Van Der Zee, American Photographer |
| 1976 | Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S. historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88 |
| 1976 | Samuel E. Morison, American Historian |
| 1973 | Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95 |
| 1972 | Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47 |
| 1967 | Edward Hopper, U.S. painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84 |
| 1967 | Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1965 | Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies |
| 1964 | Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61 |
| 1959 | Berend van den Amstel, Bernard CED Hattink, Dutch actor, dies at 56 |
| 1958 | Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91 |
| 1952 | Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84 |
| 1952 | Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1949 | Mary Antin, Russian Activist |
| 1945 | Major Courtney, U.S. medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf |
| 1940 | Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75 |
| 1940 | Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63 |
| 1935 | Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist |
| 1933 | Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54 |
| 1932 | Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered |
| 1926 | Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies |
| 1925 | Nelson A. Miles, American Soldier |
| 1924 | Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71 |
| 1899 | Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70 |
| 1895 | Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75 |
| 1892 | Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered |
| 1889 | Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies |
| 1886 | Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, dies at 55 |
| 1873 | Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53 |
| 1872 | Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1855 | Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75 |
| 1852 | Louisa Catherine Adams, American First Lady |
| 1847 | Daniel O'Connell, Irish Politician |
| 1845 | Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76 |
| 1842 | Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76 |
| 1833 | Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46 |
| 1832 | Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1824 | Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1823 | Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1822 | Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1821 | John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1801 | Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73 |
| 1785 | Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29 |
| 1761 | Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56 |
| 1746 | Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1685 | Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies |
| 1622 | Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69 |
| 1621 | Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56 |
| 1591 | Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9 |
| 1482 | Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies |
| 1470 | Charles VIII, Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies |
| 1174 | Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies |
| 884 | Marinus I, Martinus II, Pope (882-84), dies |
| 392 | Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21 |
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