| 2004 | Richard Biggs, actor, Babylon 5, dies at 44 |
| 2001 | Whitman Mayo, actor, Sanford and Son, dies at 70 |
| 2000 | Randolph Walker, theater actor, dies at 72 |
| 1998 | John Derek, actor/director, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist |
| 1996 | Duncan Montgomery Stewart, academic, dies at 66 |
| 1996 | Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70 |
| 1995 | Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68 |
| 1994 | Mitacq, Michel Tacq, Belgian comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies |
| 1993 | Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/U.S. pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100 |
| 1991 | Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51 |
| 1990 | Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies |
| 1990 | Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure |
| 1988 | Dennis Day, tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy), dies at 71 |
| 1988 | Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73 |
| 1987 | Mario Zafred, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1986 | Martin Gabel, actor (Thief, Marnie), dies at 63 |
| 1985 | Alister Hardy, British Scientist |
| 1984 | John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery |
| 1978 | Bjarne Brustad, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1977 | Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73 |
| 1977 | Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer, dies at 80 |
| 1975 | Torben Meyer, actor (Viking, Roberta, Sunny), dies at 90 |
| 1972 | Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80 |
| 1972 | C. Day Lewis, English Poet |
| 1970 | Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 |
| 1970 | Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist |
| 1967 | Henry C Rumke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74 |
| 1967 | J Langston Hughes, U.S. author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65 |
| 1967 | Langston Hughes, American Poet |
| 1965 | Bobby Watson, comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), dies at 77 |
| 1965 | Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies |
| 1961 | Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53 |
| 1958 | Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58 |
| 1957 | Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies |
| 1953 | Vaclav Klicka, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1949 | Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80 |
| 1949 | Klaus H T Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies |
| 1948 | Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57 |
| 1948 | Claude McKay, Jamaican Writer |
| 1945 | Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies |
| 1939 | Ernst Toller, writer, dies at 45 |
| 1939 | Willem de Merode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51 |
| 1932 | Lady Augusta, Isabella Gregory, playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80 |
| 1932 | Lady Gregory, Irish Dramatist |
| 1928 | William HT Gairdner, English missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54 |
| 1925 | John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 |
| 1921 | Marie E Wilton, writer, dies |
| 1910 | Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46 |
| 1898 | Edward Bellamy, writer, dies at 48 |
| 1885 | Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies at 83 |
| 1885 | Victor Hugo, French Author |
| 1880 | Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80 |
| 1878 | Franz von Holstein, composer, dies at 52 |
| 1868 | Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies |
| 1859 | Ferdinand II, Re Bomba, Dutch King of Sicily, dies at 49 |
| 1849 | Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist |
| 1825 | Domenico Corri, composer, dies at 80 |
| 1819 | John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 |
| 1819 | Hugh Williamson, American Politician |
| 1801 | Heinrich Gottfried Reichard, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1781 | Garret Wesley Mornington, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1688 | Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70 |
| 1667 | Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi, Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 |
| 1540 | Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57 |
| 1501 | Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66 |
| 987 | Louis V le Faineant, the Lazy, king of France (986-87), poisoned at 20 |
| 337 | Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome (306-37)/anti semite, dies |
