| 2002 | Judy Toll, comic/writer, Sex and the City, dies at 44 |
| 1999 | Oliver Reed, actor, Oliver!, dies at 61 |
| 1998 | Don Harrison, Headline News anchor, dies at 61 |
| 1998 | Gene Raymond, actor, dies at 89 |
| 1997 | Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure |
| 1996 | Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97 |
| 1996 | Emile Habibi, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1996 | Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63 |
| 1994 | Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65 |
| 1994 | Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero, dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82 |
| 1993 | WLPM, the Short, Dutch MP (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83 |
| 1993 | Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86 |
| 1992 | Joey Cuevas, dancer, dies at 34 |
| 1992 | Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88 |
| 1992 | Philip Dunne, screenwriter, dies of cancer at 84 |
| 1992 | Wilbur Mills, Representative-D-Arkansas 1939 - 1977, involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Hal Bell, dies at 65 |
| 1991 | Leib Lensky, dies at 82 |
| 1990 | David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38 |
| 1990 | Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49 |
| 1990 | William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90 |
| 1985 | Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor (Harold Teen), dies at 71 after surgery |
| 1985 | Milton S Eisenhower, U.S. diplomat, dies at 85 |
| 1984 | Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies |
| 1982 | Helmut Dantine |
| 1982 | Hugh Marlowe, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World), dies at 71 |
| 1980 | Clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies |
| 1973 | Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69 |
| 1972 | J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77 |
| 1972 | J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant |
| 1969 | Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89 |
| 1969 | Franz von Papen, German Politician |
| 1968 | Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St. Louis), dies at 69 |
| 1964 | Nancy N Witcher Astor, U.S./English feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies |
| 1964 | Nancy Astor, British Politician |
| 1963 | Van Wyck Brooks, U.S. historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77 |
| 1959 | Yrlo Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67 |
| 1958 | Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies at 89 |
| 1957 | Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin Senator-R-Wisconsin 1947 - 1957, dies at 47 |
| 1957 | Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1955 | Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1954 | Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82 |
| 1947 | William Moulton Marston, American Psychologist |
| 1945 | Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies |
| 1937 | Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1919 | Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies |
| 1897 | William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1892 | Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1864 | Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1857 | LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies |
| 1857 | Alfred de Musset, French Writer |
| 1849 | David H Chasse, baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84 |
| 1845 | August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 |
| 1818 | Herman W. Daendels, governor-general of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55 |
| 1799 | Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1736 | Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71 |
| 1727 | Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 |
| 1685 | Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried |
| 1669 | Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 |
| 1567 | Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies |
| 1519 | Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 |
| 1488 | Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies |
| 1459 | Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies |
| 1250 | Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered |
| 649 | Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies |
