| 2005 | Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England |
| 1996 | Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79 |
| 1996 | Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82 |
| 1996 | Jack Massey, groundsman, dies at 85 |
| 1996 | Pud Brown, jazz musician, dies at 79 |
| 1995 | C. W. Stubblefield, music Promoter, dies at 64 |
| 1995 | Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1994 | Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Red Rodney, Albino Red/The Red Arrow, bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66 |
| 1994 | Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95 |
| 1993 | Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies |
| 1993 | Willem P G Assmann, Dutch MP, dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55 |
| 1992 | Glen White, dancer/actor (Graft, Camille), dies of AIDS at 42 |
| 1992 | John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 |
| 1992 | Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St. Valentines Day), dies at 86 |
| 1991 | Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88 |
| 1989 | Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies |
| 1988 | Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79 |
| 1988 | Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, U.S. jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77 |
| 1988 | Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies |
| 1986 | Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82 |
| 1985 | Kay Campbell, actress (All My Children), dies at 80 |
| 1983 | Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1982 | Jo Lagrilliere, Joke, Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47 |
| 1976 | Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80 |
| 1975 | Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53 |
| 1971 | Chips Rafferty, actor (Kona Coast, Walk into Hell), dies at 62 |
| 1970 | Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 |
| 1969 | Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43 |
| 1968 | Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30 |
| 1964 | Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader |
| 1963 | Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered |
| 1960 | Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65 |
| 1960 | George Zucco, actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74 |
| 1958 | Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46 |
| 1958 | Samuel Stritch, U.S. cardinal and archbishop (Chicago), dies |
| 1954 | Herzmanovsky-Orlando, writer, dies |
| 1951 | Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies |
| 1949 | Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY |
| 1941 | AH Borgesius, tutor/experimentator/amateur astronomer, dies at 76 |
| 1941 | Gunther Lutjens, German Admiral (Bismarck), dies |
| 1939 | Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44 |
| 1934 | Meijer Linnewiel, Amsterdam street hawker, dies |
| 1933 | James Loeb, American Businessman |
| 1925 | Ed McKeever, President (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of pneumonia |
| 1918 | Henry Adams, U.S. literature historian (Esther), dies at 80 |
| 1916 | Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies |
| 1914 | Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies |
| 1910 | Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies |
| 1902 | Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies |
| 1896 | Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies |
| 1887 | Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86 |
| 1878 | Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49 |
| 1876 | Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies |
| 1863 | Edward Payson Chapin, Union Brigadier General, dies at 31 |
| 1855 | Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russian writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies |
| 1840 | Niccolo Paganini, composer/violinist, dies at 57 |
| 1797 | Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36 |
| 1790 | Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89 |
| 1768 | Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies |
| 1708 | Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1702 | Dominique Bouhours, French Critic |
| 1690 | Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63 |
| 1661 | Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53 |
| 1652 | Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39 |
| 1647 | Achsah Young, 1st woman known to be a witch, executed in Salem Mass |
| 1638 | Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1627 | Everhardus van Bronchorst, lawyer, dies at 73 |
| 1596 | Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies |
| 1580 | Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies |
| 1576 | Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44 |
| 1569 | Francois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies |
| 1564 | Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54 |
| 1564 | John Calvin, French Theologian |
| 1549 | Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns |
| 1541 | Margaretha, duchess of Salisbury, beheaded |
| 1525 | Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed |
| 1508 | Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55 |
| 1178 | Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies |
| 1039 | Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies |
| 927 | Symeon, czar of Bulgaria ( -927) |
| 866 | Ordono I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies |
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