| 2002 | Sam Snead, golfer, dies at 89 |
| 1999 | Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer |
| 1996 | Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 |
| 1996 | Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77 |
| 1994 | Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 |
| 1994 | Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65 |
| 1993 | James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77 |
| 1992 | Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies |
| 1992 | Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered |
| 1991 | Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies |
| 1991 | Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies |
| 1991 | William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30 |
| 1990 | Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock and Roll), dies |
| 1988 | David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73 |
| 1987 | Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86 |
| 1986 | Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue and Gray), dies at 70 |
| 1983 | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 |
| 1982 | Louis J N Gerardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69 |
| 1981 | George Jessel, U.S. comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83 |
| 1979 | Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79 |
| 1975 | Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81 |
| 1974 | Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies |
| 1973 | Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57 |
| 1970 | Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr. Bobbins), dies at 68 |
| 1969 | Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79 |
| 1969 | Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74 |
| 1969 | Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 |
| 1968 | James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 |
| 1968 | Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 |
| 1967 | Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58 |
| 1967 | Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30 |
| 1966 | Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79 |
| 1965 | David Smith, sculptor, dies |
| 1961 | Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53 |
| 1960 | Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies |
| 1952 | Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1947 | C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68 |
| 1945 | Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 |
| 1941 | Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies |
| 1941 | Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1940 | Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies |
| 1940 | Paul Nizan, French journalist and writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35 |
| 1938 | Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70 |
| 1937 | John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla |
| 1937 | John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman |
| 1934 | Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush |
| 1934 | Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), killed in police ambush |
| 1926 | Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1908 | Francois Coppee, French poet, dies |
| 1906 | Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78 |
| 1906 | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Poet |
| 1905 | Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75 |
| 1897 | Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago and Back), dies at 34 |
| 1895 | Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 |
| 1891 | Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1887 | Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1883 | Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies |
| 1881 | Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies |
| 1881 | Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies |
| 1875 | Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1867 | Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74 |
| 1860 | Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies |
| 1851 | Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69 |
| 1842 | Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34 |
| 1841 | Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 |
| 1838 | John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75 |
| 1836 | Edward Livingston, American Judge |
| 1834 | Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1785 | William Woollett, engraver, dies |
| 1783 | James Otis, American lawyer, dies |
| 1776 | Julie de Lespinasse, French Author |
| 1754 | John Wood, architect/town planner, dies |
| 1701 | William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock |
| 1684 | Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48 |
| 1668 | Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried |
| 1648 | Luis de Nain, painter, dies |
| 1627 | Luis de Gongora y Argote, poet and writer, dies |
| 1568 | Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 |
| 1498 | Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45 |
| 1423 | Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies |
| 1153 | David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68 |
| 1125 | Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies |
