| 2002 | Joe Cobb, actor, an original Our Gang cast member, dies at 84 |
| 2000 | Barbara Cartland, romance writer, dies at 98 |
| 2000 | Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43 |
| 2000 | Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96 |
| 1996 | Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Eric Stuart Woord, archaeologist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Laurence Dowdall, lawyer, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Mary Perot Nichols, journalist, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60 |
| 1995 | Kieron Walsh, academic, dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Les Aspin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1971 - 1993, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1993 - 1995, dies of stroke at 56 |
| 1995 | Patrick Bowles, writer/translator, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60 |
| 1994 | Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy 1987 - 1988, dies |
| 1994 | John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 |
| 1994 | John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71 |
| 1993 | John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80 |
| 1993 | John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65 |
| 1992 | Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59 |
| 1992 | Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies |
| 1992 | Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24 |
| 1992 | Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies |
| 1991 | Bobby Dale, dies at 92 |
| 1991 | Jean Van Joutte, Prime Minister of Belgium 1952 - 1954, dies |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46 |
| 1990 | Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37 |
| 1990 | Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state building in 1930, dies |
| 1990 | Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered |
| 1988 | Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92 |
| 1987 | Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57 |
| 1984 | Andrea Leeds, actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70 |
| 1984 | Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies |
| 1983 | Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1981 | Yuki Shimoda, actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies |
| 1980 | Ida Kaminska, actress (Shop on Main Street), dies |
| 1978 | Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77 |
| 1976 | Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1973 | Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53 |
| 1973 | Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestral leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61 |
| 1971 | Dennis King, actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73 |
| 1970 | Vinton Hayworth, actor (General Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63 |
| 1968 | Doris Lloyd, actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71 |
| 1966 | Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75 |
| 1954 | Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1952 | John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39 |
| 1949 | Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42 |
| 1935 | Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87 |
| 1935 | Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 |
| 1933 | John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 |
| 1926 | Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1926 | Ronald Arthur A Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40 |
| 1924 | Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold and Loeb, at 14 |
| 1920 | Eleanor Porter, American Novelist |
| 1919 | Victor A D Segalen, [Max Anely], French ship's doctor/writer, dies |
| 1897 | Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1895 | Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 |
| 1894 | August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 |
| 1885 | Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1860 | Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1844 | Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1817 | Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1815 | Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1812 | Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38 |
| 1810 | Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 |
| 1790 | Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies |
| 1786 | Carl W.Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 |
| 1725 | Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 |
| 1703 | Roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle |
| 1690 | John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 |
| 1650 | James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged |
| 1647 | Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 |
| 1639 | Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 |
| 1639 | Tommaso Campanella, Philosopher |
| 1542 | Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R |
| 1524 | Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 |
| 1481 | Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies |
| 1254 | Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 |
| 987 | Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies |
