| 2003 | Rachel Kempson, actress, Jewel in the Crown, dies at 92 |
| 2001 | Patricia Hilliard Robertson, astronaut, dies at 38 |
| 1997 | Edward Mulhare, actor, TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, dies of lung cancer at 74 |
| 1996 | Alexander Langsdorf, physicist, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Harry Campion, statistician, dies at 91 |
| 1996 | Jack McCarthy, kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1996 | Jacob R Druckman, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Joseph Mitchell, writer, dies at 87 |
| 1995 | Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79 |
| 1994 | Jean-Pierre E Plooij, Dutch writer (Bird House), dies at 48 |
| 1994 | John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69 |
| 1994 | Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96 |
| 1994 | John Wain, English Poet |
| 1993 | Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, shot dead at 66 |
| 1993 | Milton O Thompson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66 |
| 1992 | Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79 |
| 1991 | Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49 |
| 1989 | Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies at 72 |
| 1988 | James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87 |
| 1987 | Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 |
| 1986 | Gunnar Bjornstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76 |
| 1986 | Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33 |
| 1986 | Yakima Canutt, actor and director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 |
| 1981 | George Jessel, actor (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 83 |
| 1981 | Jack Warner, Waters, actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84 |
| 1981 | Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash |
| 1979 | Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies |
| 1976 | Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies at 62 |
| 1976 | Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65 |
| 1974 | Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies of cancer at 75 |
| 1972 | Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88 |
| 1972 | Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64 |
| 1969 | Mitzi Green, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer), dies at 48 |
| 1968 | Bernard Rogers, composer (Warrior, Passion), dies at 75 |
| 1963 | Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack |
| 1959 | John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State 1953 - 1959, dies at 71 |
| 1956 | Guy Kibbee, actor (Captain Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74 |
| 1953 | Cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63 |
| 1950 | Archibald Wavell, British Soldier |
| 1948 | Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1943 | Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84 |
| 1941 | Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle |
| 1919 | Amado Nervo, Juan C Ruiz de Nervo, Mexican poet, dies at 48 |
| 1895 | Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 |
| 1894 | William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1881 | Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies |
| 1879 | William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 |
| 1876 | Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 |
| 1872 | Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies |
| 1871 | Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40 |
| 1861 | Elmer Ellsworth, U.S. warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 |
| 1861 | James T Jackson, U.S. landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead) |
| 1851 | Stanko Vraz, Jakob Frass, Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 |
| 1850 | Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74 |
| 1848 | A V Droste-Hulshoff, writer, dies at 51 |
| 1844 | William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies |
| 1831 | Benjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1826 | Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37 |
| 1817 | Juan Melendez Valdes, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63 |
| 1804 | Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 |
| 1792 | George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies |
| 1792 | Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies |
| 1773 | Jan Zach, composer, organist, violinist, composed Baroque and classical music, dies at 73 in Ellwangen, Germany |
| 1762 | Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1751 | William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies |
| 1696 | Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62 |
| 1670 | Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59 |
| 1669 | Pieter Cuypers, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at 48 |
| 1665 | Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies |
| 1612 | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48 |
| 1543 | Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland |
| 1153 | David I, King of Scotland, dies |
| 1144 | Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies |
