| 2007 | Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany |
| 2002 | Walter Lord, American Author |
| 2001 | Susannah McCorkle, singer, dies at 55 |
| 1997 | Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12 |
| 1996 | Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday), dies at 89 |
| 1994 | Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1994 | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64 |
| 1994 | Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48 |
| 1994 | Jackie Kennedy, First Lady |
| 1993 | Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81 |
| 1991 | Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies |
| 1991 | Rini Otte, Dutch actress (Ergens in Nederland), dies at 74 |
| 1989 | Able J Herzberg, Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies |
| 1989 | E Galgoczi, writer, dies |
| 1989 | Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS at 64 |
| 1989 | C. L. R. James, Journalist |
| 1988 | Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90 |
| 1987 | Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71 |
| 1986 | Jimmy Lyons, American Musician |
| 1983 | Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies |
| 1971 | Bernard Wagenaar, Netherlands/U.S. composer, dies at 76 |
| 1971 | Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68 |
| 1969 | Coleman Hawkins, U.S. jazz musician/composer, dies |
| 1966 | Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Captain Cook (1773), dies |
| 1965 | Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies |
| 1961 | Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94 |
| 1958 | Bruno Sturmer, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1958 | Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67 |
| 1954 | Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73 |
| 1954 | Charles Edward Ives, U.S. composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79 |
| 1953 | Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish General/Minister of War, dies at 79 |
| 1942 | [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69 |
| 1941 | Werner Sombart, Marxist economist (Handler und Heroes), dies at 78 |
| 1935 | Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler, French composer, dies at 74 |
| 1935 | Thomas E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, dies in a motorcycle crash |
| 1928 | Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59 |
| 1928 | Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53 |
| 1922 | Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79 |
| 1917 | Belva Lockwood, American Lawyer |
| 1901 | Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st President Rep South Africa, dies at 81 |
| 1898 | William E. Gladstone, British Leader |
| 1895 | Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies |
| 1887 | Pieter Blusse van Alblas, liberal minister of Finance, dies at 75 |
| 1876 | Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74 |
| 1872 | Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44 |
| 1864 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, U.S., writer (Scarlet Letter), dies |
| 1845 | Maria EJ Versfelt, mistress of general Moreau/marshal Ney, dies at 68 |
| 1801 | Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies |
| 1800 | French Bosbeeck, veterinarian/robber, hanged |
| 1795 | Josiah Bartlett, U.S. physician and judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 65 |
| 1786 | John Stanley, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1653 | Carel Reyniersz, Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies, dies at 48 |
| 1647 | Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies |
| 1536 | Anne Boleyn, Queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, beheaded |
| 1536 | Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded |
| 1296 | Celestine V, Pietro del Murrone, Pope (1294), dies |
| 988 | Dunstanus, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies |
| 804 | Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 |
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